MARC JACOBS DOES VINTAGE FOR SPRING 09

Marc Jacobs had a celebrity-packed audience at the New York State Armory to view his collection for spring ‘09.

The kaleidoscopic blended hints of Suzie Wong, Carmen Miranda, and Mary Poppins with a dash of Asian spice, a suggestion of tight-waisted, 1940’s secretary style and a dash of color from the Jazz Age.

Other celebrities included Winona Ryder, Nicole Richie, Helena Christiansen and Elijah Wood. Jacobs' used high waist, tightly-wrapped in multi-colored obi-sashes or cinched with elaborate, leather corset-belts.

Skirts were long, pencil-thin, buttoned and bowed, or fitted with an uptown version of a washerwoman's 'apron', and worn with waistcoats and jackets with beaded cuffs, trouser suits in grey were finished with elaborate, jeweled, lame sashes.

There was a mix of metallic brocades, polka-dots, jeweled tweeds, leopard-prints, stripes and exotic butterfly-prints.

The straw and flower, pancake hats and Middle Europe head-scarves were shown with fringed, tasseled tapestry bags, lace-up boots and metallic ankle-strap stilettos.