Grace Coddington
first registered Marc
Jacobs’s Zeitgeisty work when he
designed what she calls “a little
white sequined dress that was like
a towel wrapped round as you get
out of the bath.” She has been a
fan ever since. “I don’t think he’s
ever done a collection that I didn’t
like,” she says. “He has such a
charm to his clothes—they change
with his moods, but they are
always true to himself.”
And so, when Coddington
was approached to illustrate her
selection from each and every
one of Marc Jacobs’s collections
through nearly 30 years, she
jumped at the opportunity. Those
drawings have resulted in Marc
Jacobs Illustrated (Phaidon), with
text by Jacobs, an introduction
by Jacobs’s muse Sofia Coppola,
and whimsical art direction
conceived by Coddington and
Takaaki Matsumoto.
“My drawings are not
serious fashion drawings,” says
Coddington. “They are funny—
which I think, in a way, captures
Marc’s spirit.”—hamish bowles
FASHION
old supermodel explained her surprise return to
the runway. “I have a fifteen-year-old daughter who
I desperately want to see and hear me,” she wrote
on Instagram, “and this is a medium that ‘speaks’
to her.” Walking alongside Kaia Gerber and Gigi
Hadid has its cross-generational appeal; so does
sharing the models’ same inexplicably luminous
complexions. For that, there’s a stealth product
to thank: Youthquake, the first-ever skin-care
product from Marc Jacobs Beauty, dispensed in tiny sample pots
backstage. The quenching moisturizer, three years in the making,
delivers subtle exfoliation via enzymatic pineapple water, along with
antioxidant-rich fruit extracts. “It’s the idea of plump, moisturized
skin, with or without makeup,” Jacobs says, referring as much to
a bare-faced Turlington Burns as to Lady Gaga, who test-drove the
cream at this year’s Met gala. That high-drama evening kicked off a
72-hour flash sale for Youthquake—but if you missed it, don’t worry.
Those sunny jars officially hit shelves this month.—LAURA REGENSDORF
BRIGHT SPOT
THE NEW CREAM’S
PACKAGING,
ABOVE, NODS
TO THE 1962
ELLSWORTH KELLY
PAINTING THAT
HANGS IN
JACOBS’S
MANHATTAN
HOME, RIGHT.
about expanding his beauty
empire—and revisiting his
storied career in a new book
illustrated by Vogue’s very
own Grace Coddington.
JACOBEAN ERA
ABOVE: SKETCHES
OF MARC JACOBS’S
SPRING 2009
COLLECTION BY
GRACE CODDINGTON.
ABOVE RIGHT:
MODEL CHANEL
IMAN IN THE SAME
COLLECTION,
PHOTOGRAPHED
BY DAVID SIMS,
VOGUE, 2009.
BEAUTY
VLIFE
68 JUNE 2019 VOGUE.COM
ILLUSTRATION:
MARC JACOBS ILLUSTRATED,
PHAIDON; DESIGNS AND COM
MENTARY BY M
ARC JACOBS, DRAW
INGS BY GRACE
CODDINGTON, TYPOGRAPHY AND BOOK DESIGN BY TAKAAKI M
ATSUM
OTO; SPRING/SUM
MER 2009. PRODUCT: COURTESY OF
MARC JACOBS. SW
IPE OF CREAM
: JOSEPHINE SCHIELE. INTERIOR: FRANÇOIS HALARD,
ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST,
2016.
