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PEOPLE & ARTS Monday 16 SepteMber 2019

Jacobs dreams a little dream to close Fashion Week on a high

NEW YORK (AP) — Twice a then marched directly to
year, the New York fashion the audience, right past
world trudges to the Upper them in their chairs, and out
East Side and the cavern- the other side of the room.
ous Park Avenue Armory to Were these wonderfully col-
see what new tricks Marc orful creatures, resembling
Jacobs has up his sleeve. the cast of a Fellini film on
Somehow Jacobs, who has steroids, now gone? Thank-
the final Fashion Week slot fully, they returned and the
every time — a position of show began in earnest,
considerable pressure — with models emerging one
tends to find a way to sur- by one to parade in a cir-
prise and impress. But on cle around the seats.
Wednesday night he also There was color, sparkle,
sent a jolt of delight through craftsmanship, dazzling va-
the crowd with a joyful and riety — and far too many
dreamlike ode to fashion of cultural references to
all kinds and all eras. count. Bella Hadid looked
"Tonight is our reminder like a cowboy, in shades of
of the joy in dressing up," purple, red and gray. Her
he wrote in notes left on sister, Gigi Hadid, was bare-
guests' chairs, "our unadul- foot, in a pastel blue mini-
terated love of fashion and The Marc Jacobs collection is modeled during Fashion Week, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019, in New dress and round hat that
embracing grand gestures York. resembled a 1960s airline
of unbridled expressions, Associated Press hostess.
reactions, ideas and possi- There were sartorial nods to
bilities." faces. Here, the lights were huge Armory floor empty Suddenly the doors people who died recently:
If that was a mouthful, it re- on and the models were except for a gaggle of mis- opened and Jacobs' mod- Chanel's longtime designer
flected the ebullient mood smiling, winking, even wav- matched white chairs ar- els — 61 of them — entered Karl Lagerfeld, who died
of the show. Normally, Ja- ing as they sashayed by. ranged in uneven rows at the room to the strains of in February; Lee Radziwill,
cobs' models walk down a The room looked different, the back, as if in an aban- Mama Cass singing "Dream who died the same month,
runway in a dark room with too. Entering to take their doned vintage furniture a Little Dream of Me." They and Anita Pallenberg, who
a determined pout on their seats, guests found the store. spread out horizontally and died in 2017.q