Editor’s note: It’s been a big year for Marc Jacobs. Marc Jacobs celebrates 40 years in the fashion world and becomes American Vogue’s first guest editor. We conclude 2024 with an archival look back at the designer’s career. Presented on April 4, 1995 at the Plaza Hotel, this Fall 1995 collection has been digitized as part of Vogue Runway’s ongoing efforts to document the history of fashion shows.
Marc Jacobs’ fall 1995 collection, presented in the Plaza Hotel’s Baroque Room, was like a time-lapse of early ’60s fashion. There were hints of space-age design in boxy suits, pillbox hats, headscarves and cocktail dresses, Butterfield 8-like white mink, and the cut-out look that closed the show. “For me, the most modern era in fashion was the ’60s,” Jacobs told Vogue. “If you saw that outfit walking down the street today, you wouldn’t think it was retro. It would look modern, experimental, and classic.”
When Vogue featured the collection’s glittering ensembles in “Seasoned Simplicity,” in which Kirsty Hume and Donovan Leitch were cast as mods and posed while impersonating the QE II, the caption read, “Mark・Jacobs turns fashion upside down.”
