Marc Jacobs has named Russian fake lesbian duo t.A.T.u. as the faces of his autumn/winter line, reports Marie Claire.
We don’t know what the campaign will look like, but we are expecting something extraordinary. Usually Jacobs’ ads are always surprisingly bizarre and provoking.
I love frogs. This sort of fairy-tale frog that became a prince, and the chameleon who changes colors with his environment. Zelig is my favorite film. I understand that.
I can hang out in a sports bar with a bunch of straight guys and say ‘Go, Knicks’ and I can run around in the art scene and I can also be at the Met ball and be Mr. Fashion Designer with Anna Wintour. I can go wherever I want; I can be whatever I choose. “I can change colors–for my own amusement and, perhaps, the entertainment of others.
- Marc Jacobs to The New Yorker
Guess what it is?
It is The Most Fashionable Cake on Earth.
The cake was made by master baker Gregory Paul Soriano who titled this masterpiece “The World’s Most Expensive Cake, the Marc Jacobs/Louis Vuitton Tribute Patchwork Cake.”
Now we are sure, that Soriano makes the most glamorous cakes in the world.
When we saw this new Marc by Marc Jacobs ad , we thought it was just strongly ironic. But then, the Men’s fashion shows in Paris and Milan began featuring dark-rimmed male models with pale makeup walking in glittering gold jeans and lace shorts, head-to-toe in electric pink with a string of pearls and wedges.
Whenever Marc Jacobs is present, there will always be controversy. When it was announced that Jacobs dropped Victoria Beckham and tapped models for his latest project, we thought that his bizarre ad campaigns were a thing of the past. But we were so mistaken!
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In his new Fall/Winter 08-09 ad campaign, we see a male model, Cole Mohr wearing a women’s plaid coat and handling a bag. If Jacobs wanted to shock people, he achieved his goal. We are curious about one thing: would any woman really want to buy it after seeing the ad?
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Jacobs, who only met Warhol twice at dinner parties, admitted that he never felt he had enough of an art education to own art. “But now you turn on a Motorola phone and the graphics are inspired by [Takashi] Murakami’s art. I don’t think people realize that. I didn’t know him, but he did things and made things happen but had this world around him in this chaos that made things happen as well. We live in such a different time than when this magazine first started; things are so computer-driven now.”
-Marc Jacobs to Fashion Week Daily about Andy Warhol
Kirsten Owen and Stella Tennant. Credit: Style.com
After dropping Victoria Beckham from his S/S 08 ad campaigns, Marc Jacobs has opted to take the model route for his forthcoming fall-winter campaign. As WWD reports, the new faces of Marc Jacobs campaigns are models Kirsten Owen and Stella Tennant.
Celebrities and fashion designers gathered in New York for the annual CFDA Fashion Awards on Monday night. Meet this year’s winners:
Womenswear Designer of the Year: Francisco Costa for Calvin Klein
Menswear Designer of the Year: Tom Ford
Accessory Designer of the Year: Tory Burch
Swarovski Award for Womenswear: Kate and Laura Mulleavy for Rodarte
Swarovski Award for Menswear: for Band of Outsiders
Swarovski Award for Accessory Design: Philip Crangi
Eugenia Sheppard Award: Candy Pratts Price
Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award: Carolina Herrera
International Award: Dries Van Noten
Board of Directors’ Special Tribute: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg
Eva Longoria and Ashley Olsen
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Posh in a net-skirted black gown and oversized pale blue gloves. Credit: marie claire
It seems, this is the last weird Beckham photo for Marc Jacobs. Posh will not star in next season’s ads, as Jacobs told her, they will use models for their future ad campaigns.
What can one say, about these Posh ads, that Fashionistas around the planet haven’t already mentioned? This latest and last one, continues the trend of Jacobs and Victoria Beckham collaborating to satirize Posh’s notoriety, posing her idiotically as a mannequin. The ads tend to make you laugh at Beckham, rather than draw attention to Jacobs’ designs. Is that a good thing? Perhaps, it is best that the ads were a one-shot deal and for a limited run.
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“Just like I’m interested in contemporary art, music, all sorts of things, I’m fascinated by pop culture, and people’s fascination with her and other contemporary icons, as I call them. As soon as I saw her after the Louis Vuitton show for spring/summer 2008, when she came backstage, I got the idea and went to see her at the Ritz. We spoke about the irony and perversity of it, and she totally got it.”
- Marc Jacobs to the Independent on hiring Victoria Beckham as the face of his signature brand for spring/summer 2008.
