love is love, lifestyle: Marc Jacobs

Monday, October 26, 2009

KID SISTER LINES

What's the next best thing to [and perhaps even better than] your favorite luxury brand? It's secondary line! This is the collection that is created from the same design point of view as the primary, luxury line, but is half the price and is usually styled towards a younger audience incorporating printed graphics, more wearable fabrics, and styled with sneakers.

Two of my favorite high end designers are Marc Jacobs and Chloe. Each have amazing secondary collections that have cult followings like wow.

See by Chloe F09

See by Chloe W09

MARC BY MARC JACOBS F/W 09

See additional looks from each collection by clicking the "see more" link

Monday, October 19, 2009

Marc Jacobs Day, Yay

I could talk about Marc Jacobs all day, but I will try to keep this brief and to the point, first starting with some background info, I learned about him from a TV [or internet] special a few years ago, that first made me fall in love with him and his work.

Did You Know:
1. Marc Jacobs was very publicly fired from his creative director position at Perry Ellis after the '92 grunge collection he did for the brand. What really sucked was that in following months the trend became incredibly popular and Marc was jobless.
2. Jacobs has had a history of drug and alcohol problems, but in recent years has decided to live a healthier lifestyle and even buffed up. [you go boi]
3. Marc Jacobs negotiated that he would take the position as creative director at Louis Vuitton in exchange for the congolmorate to finance his namesake line

So now that we are all caught up, lets look at some of Marc's recent projects that have me going crazy.

THE MARC JACOBS FALL 09 CREW SWEATSHIRT/ DRESS