VOGUE AUSTRALIA: What was the best part of your Marc Jacobs autumn/winter ’23/’24 show?
MARC JACOBS: “It’s so funny, because I guess the best part was this kind of enlightenment after the show. Every choice in terms of the way we showed it appeared accidental to me in the moment, but after the moment, it felt like it all made sense. So it was a kind of strange revelation.”
VA: I suppose the thing that surprised everyone was how short and fast the show was: three minutes. Did that become the most powerful part, or was it the collection itself?
MJ: “Even though, for us, putting on a show has been made smaller and intimate, I think we’re so in our little bubble of creating that we enjoy the process but don’t realise the bigness of some of the choices or how they resonate or inspire people. I was very much in that place where the conversations about what clothes we were going to make, why, and reminiscing and feeling somewhat nostalgic for a spirit of getting dressed - all of this was going into it.”
“Back in the days of MTV, I used to say I want to do a show the length of time of a music video. My shows did get shorter and shorter over the years, but I never got below that two-minute mark. I’m such a creature of habit and I kind of say the same things every time, but they manifest differently. I think this time was no different. We said the best thing to do would be the finale, because that part of the show would look
