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The Article "Marc Jacobs and the End of Fashion" by Vanessa Friedman
The article “Marc Jacobs and the End of Fashion” by Vanessa Friedman, provides insights into how the New York Fashion Week for 2018 went down. The author begins by shedding light on how Marc Jacobs got late in previous fashion shows until people got tired and in one of the shows walked out on him resulting to promptness in subsequent shows. In the just concluded fashion week show, Marc Jacobs delayed beginning the show for more than an hour until the audience began to fidget. Rumors circulated amongst the audience in waiting of a possible problem causing the delay including what people believed to be a way of him getting back at Rihanna for deciding to unveil Victoria Secret’s answer after Marc’s show despite Marc having claimed the honor of official closure of the fashion week. Upon opening the show, the audience was treated to what the author describes as the “most traditional sense of the word” as the fashion era believed to have passed brought back. Simply, the wait was worth as the show is described to be cast in an amber glow.
The Collection of Marc Jacobs
The author describes the collection of Marc Jacobs on the Fashion Week show as beautiful and seems the designer took his time to deliver the best. However, the audience had to withstand a long wait for the show to kickoff. While the great collection moved the audience in many ways, nothing can erase the fact that the show delayed for a long time thus creating a debacle for the show-goers with invites for both Jacobs and Rihanna’s shows. The author also assumes that the delay was as a result of Marc being busy backstage to ensure elegance and excellence in the show whereas it might be just a dramatic business tactic to ensure that he closes the Fashion Week. Additionally, people create cultures in fashion and with the rising of subcultures; designers do not only aspire to be relevant but also create elegance. One may not be relevant without elegance in fashion. Therefore, as designers and everyone embraces the changing times as far as fashion is concerned, they ought to remember that elegance and beauty makes fashion alive hence strive to be elegant and relevant at the same time.
Works Cited
Friedman, Vanessa. Marc Jacobs and the Endof Fashion. 2018. 2018 .
