\u201cIt was such a fun experience for me to get to follow Marc around his studio,\u201d Sofia Coppola said in her opening remarks for last night\u2019s screening of Marc x Sofia by the Friends of the Met\u2019s Costume Institute. She addressed a room full of friends and industry counterparts\u2014Grace Coddington, Andrew Bolton, Alastair McKimm, and more\u2014nestled into the stylish Metrograph Theater on the Lower East Side. She continued: \u201cTo look through the archives and remember so many collections that I loved and wore over the years.\u201d The film itself\u2014the first documentary by Coppola and second solely about Jacobs\u2014feels like that: a friend tagging along for a stylized journey through the highlights of a decades-long, transcendent career in fashion. But for most of it, Coppola is behind the camera; Jacobs is the focus here.<\/p>\n
At the film\u2019s beginning, Jacobs notes his reverence for designers who can pick an idea and stick to it, who can plan a schedule and follow it, but orderly, he is not. Jacobs alludes to one of his icons, Yves Saint Laurent, and how he would sketch a collection we now consider legendary in a sort of fever dream. Now that he can relate to. So sets the precedent for the film: a heady collage of reference material like Bob Fosse\u2019s All That Jazz (the director\u2019s work is a much-returned-to source of inspiration), Jacobs dancing around in his studio, and runway shows from different stages of his career. This is someone whose life is about creation.<\/p>\n
BFA.com\/Quadir Moore<\/span><\/p>\n The documentary pieces together Jacobs\u2019s prolific career like a puzzle, jumping forward and backward in time between these sensationalized vignettes. You see glimpses of his childhood in New York City, much of which was spent living with his grandmother (those photos got an audible \u201cawwww\u201d from Coddington) and clips from the Parsons runway show that earned him the Design Student of the Year award in 1984. Then, there are his first pieces that landed on the floor of New York boutique Charivari\u2014sweaters polka-dotted with \u201870s \u201chippie\u201d smiley faces\u2014and his start designing for Perry Ellis, where he debuted the grunge collection that changed fashion. Coppola continues to interview Jacobs, diagramming the work done under his own label alongside his tenure as founding director of Louis Vuitton\u2019s ready-to-wear division in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a cheekiness about the whole thing, like when Coppola asks Jacobs, \u201cWhy do all gay men love Barbra Streisand?\u201d Every joke, wink, and quip serves as evidence that Jacobs certainly courts the designation as both fashion\u2019s darling and its enfant terrible. He loves noting the misconception that he was fired from Perry Ellis for that infamous grunge collection and recounting the pushback he received when he wanted to cover a Louis Vuitton monogrammed bag with graffiti. (To really change something, he says, you have to degrade it, to show it no respect.) And he\u2019s not shy about listing the people he\u2019s dressed for courtroom appearances: Winona Ryder and Lil’ Kim. \u201cGo to Marc, he’ll dress you for your trial,\u201d he laughed. But the act of retrofitting that demure ladylike look for boundary-pushers is one he loves: fashion is a costume, after all, or at least it is in Jacobs\u2019s world.<\/p>\n The designer\u2019s campiness is enhanced by Coppola\u2019s touch; they certainly make sense as friends. (In one scene, she laughs that one of the best looks he ever put her in was a little boy cop uniform for Halloween many years prior.) Her grungy-cool yet youthfully feminine montages help paint the picture of the uptown-goes-downtown pair they were pre-millennium, gallivanting around New York City. Now, in their 50s and 60s, they\u2019ve become titans of their fields. And last night, they sat in a room surrounded by the mega-successful creatives they grew up with.<\/p>\n Left to Right: Grace Coddington, Marc Jacobs, Sofia Coppola <\/span> BFA.com\/Quadir Moore<\/span><\/p>\n A good portion of the film catalogs the lead-up to the Fall 2024 Marc Jacobs runway show. We\u2019ve now come into the era where Jacobs doesn\u2019t seem so concerned with wearability\u2014his business strategy is definitely not the focus of this film. The narrative arc supports this idea that he’s earned the right to defy the industry. We see Jacobs along with his longtime stylist McKimm and the rest of the design team turning archetypal clothing like sweaters and shorts into their paper doll counterparts, flattening and stretching them into supersized versions of themselves. Models with wigs teased to incredible heights and crazy spider-y lashes snake through the set of a table and chairs twice the size of any human. This isn\u2019t just fashion; it\u2019s theater.<\/p>\n In one of the closing scenes, Jacobs addresses the production of it all: it\u2019s not really about the clothes, he says. He\u2019s spending months creating performance art that\u2019s gone in under ten minutes, devoting his life to ideas in such a way that he spirals into a comedown he and friends call post-art-um (a play on post-partum). And then he\u2019s consistently moved to do it again\u2014and to attempt to make everything perfect once more. The man spends as much time on the weave of knits as he does on the buoyancy of wigs. 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