Oh shit.

Marc Jacobs isn't playing, either. Whether for men or women, if Marc left New York and began showing both the MJ line and Marc elsewhere, it would be a huge blow to American fashion. He is easily one of the headliners of NYFW. While I don't think showing a show two hours later than scheduled, with no apparent reason, is cool, the details included in the article (that Italian factories were closed for the whole of August, thus could not ship things to get here sooner) gives Marc a stronger case, beyond the default "prima donna" explanation we'd like to give him. I wasn't that impressed with this S/S08 collection, particularly after the beauty of the F/W07 collection. But he's kind of an American fashion institution--not Ralph Lauren, but also definitely not Proenza Schouler. If anything, his shows are one of the bright spots, awesome collection or not, of NYFW.

Please don't go, Marc!

By the way, the Loic Prigent documentary of Jacobs' LV S/S07 collection is kind of awesome. If you compare it to "Signe Chanel" and the process Lagerfeld uses to create his collections there, it seems that Marc is much more hands on, like he's down there draping himself. While neither seem to do much of the sewing, Jacobs looks to at least be in the studios, while Karl seems quite removed from where his atelier crafts his designs. Ooh, also, you see the creation of the heinous Cubist Vuitton bag--the one made from six or seven different LV bags. While that bag is kind of tacky, it was a bear to create and construct. I love to see stuff like this.

On that note, Thom Browne is a mystery to me, so I'd like to see how he creates a collection and what he's like as a person--we know very little about him other than that he very much enjoys the ankle. Loic needs to give him a call!