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10 Oct

Marc Jacobs would really like you to smell the

Marc Jacobs would really like you to smell the
Are you a part of the BLT community? Have you ever tasted the rainbow? What about sniffing it? Well, within the words of Marc Jacobs, it’s yours to try. I can’t quite consider I'm writing this, but as Pride season continues to swell, the brand has decided to take a scented rainbow on a tour of the UK, with Southbank’s Statement Point acting as its inaugural base, before heading as much as Manchester for town’s late August festivities.  For all you trolls – sorry, leprechauns – a pot of gold will emerge in a fistful of tiny bottles, each containing a tester of the brand’s Perfect Marc Jacobs fragrance. At this point, everyone knows that perfection is a slippery concept, and...
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17 Sep

The cyber-cyborgian baldies at Marc Jacobs AW22 reflected the

The cyber-cyborgian baldies at Marc Jacobs AW22 reflected the
It was German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche who provided the sentiment that framed the Marc Jacobs AW22 show this week. “We share our decisions in contrast to the continuing brutality and ugliness of a world beyond our insulated but not impermeable partitions,” Jacobs quoted in a note entitled ‘Selection’. “Now we have art so as to not die of the reality.”  Coming just days after the overturning of Roe v Wade within the US and the threat against other hard-won rights like gay marriage, the final mood was bleak. It was unimaginable to not read the note, and the gathering, in relation to recent events. The wonder specifically conveyed a dystopian atmosphere: sitting between the aesthetics of The Girl with the Dragon...
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11 Sep

Heaven by Marc Jacobs Brought the Fashion Crowd to Elsewhere

Heaven by Marc Jacobs Brought the Fashion Crowd to Elsewhere
Heaven by Marc Jacobs went to the mecca of its Gen Z customer base on Saturday night: Bushwick. The brand took over the nightclub Elsewhere in celebration of its fall campaign, which stars Doja Cat — officially a cohost for the evening — Charli XCX, Dev Hynes, Pamela Anderson and Kyle MacLachlan. The road to get into the venue stretched down Johnson Avenue and wrapped across the block shortly after the doors opened at 10 p.m., with hordes of hopeful club-goers jostling to get inside. “Everyone on this line is on the list,” one among the bouncers told a bunch making their case to chop to the front. By midnight, the intimate room was packed wall-to-wall with bodies. Guests enveloped by...
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