Editor’s note: This year was a big one for Marc Jacobs, who celebrated his 40th anniversary in fashion and became the first guest editor of American Fashion. We close 2024 with an archive look at the designer’s career. This Fall 1995 collection, presented at the Plaza Hotel on April 4, 1995, 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 baroque room of the Plaza Hotel, read like a time-lapse of early 1960s fashion. There were boxy suits and pillbox hats, headscarves and cocktail dresses, a white mink in a Botterveld 8 vein, and hints of space age design in the cut-out looks that closed the show. “For me, the most modern period in fashion was the sixties,” Jacobs said Fashion. “If I saw those clothes walking down the street today, I wouldn’t say they looked retro. I would say they looked modern, experimental and classic.”
When Fashion featured a sparkling ensemble from this collection in “Seasoned Simplicity” in which Kirsty Hume and Donovan Leitch are cast as Mods and pose with a QE II impersonator. The caption read: “Marc Jacobs turns fashion upside down.”