Editor’s Observe: This 12 months was an enormous one for Marc Jacobs, who marked his fortieth anniversary in trend and have become the primary visitor editor of American Vogue. We’re closing out 2024 with an archival look again on the designer’s profession. This fall 1997 assortment, offered in SoHo on April 8, 1997, has been digitized as a part of Vogue Runway’s ongoing efforts to doc the historical past of trend exhibits.
At first look, Marc Jacobs’s fall 1997 assortment seemed restrained, even Calvinistic (as in Calvin Klein), but when these garments have been minimal in design they have been fabricated from unique supplies. Waffle knits have been fabricated from cashmere, and streetwise hoodies grew to become plush sweaters for SoHo yoga mothers. In a collections report Vogue wrote: “Shock of the brand new: Marc Jacobs chopped his hair. It’s a brand new look to go along with his clear, no-frills assortment of saggy grey flannel pants, orange cashmere sweatshirts, and spiky five-inch heels (trend-setter alert: that is the brand new downtown uniform).” Consider these stilettos as exclamation marks; these garments seemed quiet however they’d oomph as effectively.