Thick. Rich & Heavy

look from Louis Vuitton Fall RTW 2009 via style.com

Marc Jacob’s Fall 2009 Ready-to-Wear col­lec­tion for Louis Vuitton is thick with gathers, rich and ever-so indul­gent. He gleans heavy inspi­ra­tion from the opu­lent eight­ies with a nod to Christian Lacroix and his glam­orous muse Marie Seznec. There is an unexpected, playful wink to the Playboy Bunny with the mod­els sport­ing sheers, bunny ears and bows.

Rouching, tex­ture, and vol­ume played a major role on this run­way. Jacobs didn’t offer many pants this sea­son, instead mak­ing skirt suits and dresses the key looks. But pants were not nec­es­sary. The strate­gi­cally pulled pleats and poufs paired with leg­gings and pow­er­ful, thigh high boots put on the floor a panoply of both the fem­i­nine and the masculine.

Sculptural black frocks pop­ping with accents of camel, coral, fuch­sia, teal and gold. Important details of this col­lec­tion are heavy hard­ware, taffeta, silk charmeuse, tulle, leather, lace, pearls, rouch­ing and shirring. In con­stant sup­ply were curves, pouf sleeves, and bub­ble skirts. Our favorite looks are the fussy cock­tail dresses and the sexy power suits cut per­fectly to exag­ger­ate and flat­ter the female form.

Katie Tyznik.HighStreet.Cincinnati