Editor’s Note: This year was a big one for Marc Jacobs, who marked his 40th anniversary in fashion and became the first guest editor of American Vogue. We’re closing out 2024 with an archival look back 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’s fall 1995 collection, presented in the Baroque Room of the Plaza Hotel, read like a time lapse of early ’60s fashion. There were boxy suits and pill box hats, head scarves and cocktail dresses, a white mink in a BUtterfield 8 vein, and hints of space age design in the cut-out looks that closed the show. “To me the most modern period in fashion was the ’60s,” Jacobs told Vogue. “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 Vogue included 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.”
