NYFW: Marc Jacobs Fall 2020—A Love Letter to New York City

Marc Jacobs Fall 2020 Collection is hearkening back to New York City in the 60s. And just when you think fashion shows can no longer impress you. Marc Jacobs: Hold my purse!

With polarized comments coming out at the dramatic chaos that Marc Jacobs Fall 2020 showcase has curated, I found myself weirdly calm about the anxiety-inducing soundtrack and the chaotic stage. Dancers bent over, ran around among the show-goers, models walked onto the runway in packs and mingled with the running dancers; somehow it felt like they were portraying New York City itself.

A hodgepodge of people of all kinds displays various social tableaux. Day and night, in and out, people work their hearts out in this city, for this city. Once you finally find a way to shield yourself from the noise and chaos and look at the clothes, calmness can slip into you from the clothes themselves.

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Free of jewels, ornaments, brocades, and loud prints, this season’s collection has retired all of these supposedly luxurious cherry-on-top clothing embellishments. Instead, matching coats, hats, and tights in an appeasing color palette have manifested easy chic. Plus, the bright tights, the green tartan dress, and red berets really stirred up my youth memories of bending the knee (imitating her style) to our Queen B (Blair Waldorf from Gossip Girl).

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Everyone can find something to suit themselves in this collection. i.e., Peter Pan collar sweatshirts and straight-leg denim for artsy college students wandering galleries and bookstores; A-line three-button coats and two-piece matching bra suits for Upper East Side preppies putting on lipstick and getting in the limo; oversized structured blazers and matching Bermuda shorts for straight-edged East Village working professionals shuttling back and forth from work.

This season’s Marc Jacobs is just as versatile and diverse as New York City itself, in which no one has to assimilate. There is casualness and glamour. There are clothes for everybody.

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As seen in pastel oversized coats, zebra print, Bermuda Shorts, Peter Pan collars, and Mary Janes—clearly, Jacobs is hearkening back to New York City in the 60s, where the true center of the hippie movement occurred. It was also the time and place where artistic creation blossomed, and bound by the uncontaminated love and passion of thinking minds, without the intrusion of the internet and expectations of money and fame.

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Here we have something that we haven’t seen before. The 3d flower embordiered dress definitely shows a new take on tailoring, and it’s not overly dramatic or extravagant, but has just enough gorgeousness. Hey, have some faith. A future of fashion where fashion houses are inclined to become recycling machines, but in textiles, not in design!

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