What hath God wrought?

The two-toned hair, the Nestle's Quik tan, the cleavage as collarbone? The Marc Jacobs new ad campaign confounds the Rage because it's, well, dumb and ugly. Don't get all Smith College on me here and say that the designer is commenting on the objectification of women as dolls or teapots or sex symbols. Victoria Beckham looks as hollow and vacant as the Lindt dark chocolate Easter bunny--now decapitated--in my refrigerator.

Marc Jacobs--spotted at Perez Hilton's 30th birthday party over the weekend--seems determined to position himself in the eye of the pop culture storm. The Rage wishes that he would devote himself to inspirations gleaned from more meaningful sources.  Jacobs used to celebrate talented offbeat muses like Sofia Coppola.

photo: Juergen Teller Marc Jacobs.

Comments

[that's a joke, right?]

just another vapid fashion ad based solely on a nonsensical photo that uglifies what it's supposed to be selling.

note to the industry: I don't buy based on what your ads tell me I want or what celebrity is wearing your free stuff. I buy based on what excites me in the store and looks good on me in the mirror.

[kat]

The Rage hit it but missed it at the same time. Designer IS pop culture. That has always been the biggest complaint of angry kat. One of the few benefits of being 40 . . er . . something (okay a lot) is that you're finally in the position of being able to buy yourself that long coveted designer. But I've been robbed!

Now "designer" has become so ubiquitous it's lost its mystique. Now "designer" is just another indulgence of the spoiled, materialistic masses. Anyone with a credit card has herself a little designer. Then of course there'sthe fake LV on ebay, $2,000 Italian bags made in China and the interstate Canal street that runs coast to coast.

Designer has gone the way of Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly - to the ages.

Marc needs to enjoy it while it lasts because people are starting to wake up to the designer racket.