Marc Jacobs

Photos: Don Ashby and Olivier Claisse

Check out the new Marc Jacobs show on style.com.

And don't miss the detail shots. The shoes are really cool, kind of surreal, and I love the chunky frog clasps on some of the bags. The bag-stuck-on-a-bag is definitely going to be ripped off in the coming months.

If you're not in the habit of viewing fashion shows here are a couple of things to think about:

• This one has been staged backwards. Usually the designer comes out at the end to take a bow.
• They also usually start with the more casual things and build up to the eveningwear. Here they're building up to the less formal stuff that people might be more likely to wear more often (well, you know, relatively)
  
• Finally, don't think "wow, what a weird looking outfit." Try to think about how cool it would be to see people actually wearing those clothes. What kind of world would that be?

There's so much talk in the press about what Victoria Beckham wore to the show and how her style was antithetical to the aesthetic of the show. I'm wondering if the Marc Jacobs crew set her up? I wonder if they invited her and told her what to wear so they'd have a foil in place? She doesn't seem to care about bad publicity so she may even have been complicit. Could it have been a "happy" accident?