In his show notes Marc Jacobs riffed about beauty, calling it, “a quality or combination of qualities that gives pleasure to the mind or senses and is often associated with properties such as harmony of form or color, proportion, and authenticity.” That’s almost a dictionary definition, but trust Jacobs not to give us anything quite that obvious or basic or first degree.
Since returning to the runway after the pandemic, exaggeration has become one of Jacobs’s most persistent and powerful leitmotifs. Ego Nwodim turned up tonight in a little leather pea coat and tweed mini skirt from last season that looked inflated with air, a pair of witchy pumps with surreally extended toe boxes on her feet. Other guests were in equally hyperbolic outfits, their just-this-side-of-cartoonish proportions producing a sort of uncanny valley effect. Do they have it right in their retro-future cocktail dresses and platforms, or do we in our t-shirts, jeans, and Birkenstocks? Read my review. |
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