Marc Jacobs - Runway - Fall 2012 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week

I would very much like to know what is in the spoonful of sugar she's using to help the medicine go down. Maybe it IS sugar, but the "medicine" is absinthe.

Marc Jacobs - Runway - Fall 2012 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week

This is from the pivotal scene in Mary Pimpins where they all get super high together and start laaaaaaaaughing.

Marc Jacobs - Runway - Fall 2012 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week

And then they all jumped into the pavement world, where Mary Pimpins let them ride ACTUAL ponies, because Mary Pimpins doesn't NEED to hop around on some animatronic pole-horse that symbolizes her sexual repression.

Marc Jacobs - Runway - Fall 2012 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week

Super-

Marc Jacobs - Runway - Fall 2012 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week

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Marc Jacobs - Runway - Fall 2012 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week

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Marc Jacobs - Runway - Fall 2012 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week

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Marc Jacobs - Runway - Fall 2012 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week

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Marc Jacobs - Runway - Fall 2012 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week

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Marc Jacobs - Runway - Fall 2012 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week

-docius.

Marc Jacobs - Runway - Fall 2012 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week

I do think that pattern on the coat is cool...

Marc Jacobs - Runway - Fall 2012 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week

To me this was the most technically beautiful of the looks, where the styling didn't distract me too much from craftsmanship.

Marc Jacobs - Runway - Fall 2012 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week

There's nuggets of a pattern I like here, too, actually. Although she also looks homeless.

Marc Jacobs - Runway - Fall 2012 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week

Say what you will about Marc's clothes, but the purses are always awesome.

Marc Jacobs - Runway - Fall 2012 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week

And I DO love the idea of a metallic coat.

Marc Jacobs - Runway - Fall 2012 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week

For your pregnant footsoldier in a Russian winter.

Marc Jacobs - Runway - Fall 2012 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week

The Mat Hatter is so wicked jealous right now.

Marc Jacobs - Runway - Fall 2012 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week

Again, cool pattern; I don't like the shape/cut, but applied in another way it might work for me.

Marc Jacobs - Runway - Fall 2012 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week

You know what they say about a girl with a large safety pin: She's EXTRA safe.

Marc Jacobs - Runway - Fall 2012 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week

Furry bags! You never want your iPhone to get cold.

Marc Jacobs - Runway - Fall 2012 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week

Do you think she could actually see anything?

Marc Jacobs - Runway - Fall 2012 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week

Cute coat, Marc.

Marc Jacobs - Runway - Fall 2012 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week

I legit love the color of this coat, also. And even the coat itself. See? Good takeaways, whether you love or hate the whole shebang. And she DID bang. ZING. Whatever that meant.

New York Fugshion Week: Marc Jacobs Fall 2012

I call this collection, "Mary Pimpins." Here's the thing about Marc Jacobs, for me: Frankly, I often look at his stuff, like this show, and think, "Man, that was probably fun to watch, but those hats are HILARIOUSLY CRACKED OUT." Full marks to him for that -- a fashion show at its best should be equal parts fun and captivating and challenging, and whether you love or hate the clothes, Jacobs' shows as a moving, breathing art installation are always a spectacle to behold. And obviously we're not meant to lift this look and place it out of context onto the street, or take it literally; it's more about the pattern here, the cut of the coat there, the colors everywhere. But it's just amusing to me that every time we come to Fashion Week, it feels like people are increasingly reluctant or unable to offer any actual criticism of it -- I mean, he could send girls down the catwalk in clothes made of peanut shells, and inevitably people would be like, "It's an intricately woven quilt of Babar the Elephant and Mr. Peanut and dystopian allegory in Charles Schultz with a whimsical nod to The Peanut Allergy Answer Book!" Which may be why he goes big every time -- people don't really quite know how to parse it, so they just throw in a lot of adjectives in sentences that ultimately don't actually say anything. Kind of like I am. He sent fifty-five looks down the runway; we figure, anyone that desperate to see ALL of them probably already did, but I am too indecisive to distill it to two. So I went halfway. And whether you think it's aspirational or a brilliant fantasy or a crackfest -- there are arguments for all, I suspect -- I think you will enjoy it. Have fun.