Ahead of unveiling his fall-winter 2015 womenswear collection, American designer Marc Jacobs sat down for a British Vogue interview with Suzy Menkes. Reflecting on the current state of the fashion industry, Jacobs confesses, “You know, I am an older person now, I’m going to be 52 in a couple of months.” He continues, “But I look at young fashion and it seems like it’s all the same – the idea of what is edgy or cool. It’s style with no substance; it doesn’t really seem born of anything. I don’t see the rebellion or edge in it. It just looks like a cliche: salad oil in the hair, Frankenstein shoes and the trappings of punk and all these other thing.”
Jacobs also touches on the subject of social media, which he doesn’t understand. The designer reveals, “I am so appalled by the whole social media thing. I don’t get it, it doesn’t appeal to me, neither does a computer, or working on a laptop. I don’t want to read a book on a device. I like a book with a hard cover, and text on a piece of paper.”
