Photo: Condé Nast Archives1/12Sally Singer, Creative Digital Director
Spring 2003 Remember when Carolyn Murphy had brown hair? I don’t, but I do remember the lovely timelessness of this collectsion. This is just the perfect dress—any season at any age.
Photo: Courtesy of Marc Jacobs2/12Nicole Phelps, Replica Handbag Store Runway Director
Spring 2002 This was one of the earliest Marc Jacobs shows I attended, and it’s seared into my memory. I’d love to stumble across this dress on eBay. Funny that a frock inspired by vintage has become vintage itself.
Photo: Condé Nast Archives3/12Sarah Mower, Chief Critic
Spring 1993 Oh, my favorite dresses were the ones he did for Perry Ellis in 1992. Shalom Harlow in a black-and-yellow print button-through dress and a sock on her head.
Photo: Courtesy of Marc Jacobs4/12Celia Ellenberg, Beauty Director
Resort 2013 I have a few Marc Spring success stories, a blue plaid silk two-piece with a pussy bow from the Ziegfeld Theater extravaganza being a standout. But it was his 2013 Resort lineup that cemented Jacobs as one of my favorite dress designers. The collectsion’s series of ’30s-by-way-of-the-’70s silk-crepe frocks in florals is so bold as to stop traffic, so it made it hard to pick just one. But I ultimately succumbed to Look 5—an ankle-skimming, retina-burning red print dotted by brilliant blue-and-white petals and fastened at the neck with a long ribbon—and never looked back. It still gets wear (and compliments) four years later.
Photo: Condé Nast Archives5/12Alessandra Codinha, Culture Editor
Spring 2004 Slinky, sexy, easy, a little Art Deco, a little undone—yep, that’s what I want out of spring!
Photo: FirstView6/12Maureen Songco, Visual Director, Research
Spring 2000 RTW I loved this collectsion and fell for this effortless dress with stripes subtle enough to appeal to my usually pattern-free taste. I was asked to be the best (wo)man at my brother’s wedding and thought it was perfect to wear to the garden party.
Photo Condé Nast Archives7/12Maya Singer, Contributor
Spring 2002 What I wouldn’t give to have this dress worn by Tasha Tilberg at the Spring 2002 show! It’s the perfect combination of two of my favorite frock-related themes right now: prairie chic and slip dresses. Also, my goddaughter really likes it when I wear purple.
Photo: Courtesy of Marc Jacobs8/12Steff Yotka, Fashion News and Emerging Platforms Editor
Resort 2013 The way I see it, this Marc Jacobs Resort 2013 dress isn’t just one of his best, it’s one of the best, period. In the perfectly spring-y combo of cherry red and a spectrum of blues, this number ticks all the boxes: backless, floral, breezy, delightfully demure but with a hint of scandal. Attention Mr. Jacobs: Please reissue it in every color.
Photo Condé Nast Archives9/12Laird Borrelli-Persson, Archive Editor
Spring 2005 What’s not to love about saturated color, a swingy silhouette, and a metallic shoe? That’s a win-win-win situation, if you ask me.
Photo: Courtesy of Marc Jacobs10/12Anny Choi, Market Editor
Resort 2014 To be completely honest, my favorite Marc Jacobs collectsion changes every time I find a dress of his on The RealReal. It is true that no one else does a spring dress like Marc. My favorite right now: Resort 2014 Look 24, the sequin dress on Jamie Bochert that I’ve been dying to wear to a special event!
Photo Condé Nast Archives11/12Brooke Bobb, Fashion News Writer
Spring 2004 Sometimes I long for the days when Marc Jacobs had simplicity on the brain—the hip-hop babes and techno-rave Barbies are fun to look at, but could I really pull off a pair of bejeweled lilac hot pants? I loved all of his collectsions from the early aughts and particularly this one from Spring 2004. The metallic sheen is just enough, and the slip, with its subtly detailed silhouette, is pure Marc magic.
Photo: Indigital.tv12/12Emily Farra, Fashion News Writer
Spring 2014 I’m all about light, breezy dresses in the summer, but Marc’s dark and goth-tinged Spring ’14 collectsion still looks so good to me. The rich colors, the Hawaiian prints, the embroideries . . . . I scored one of the burgundy pouf-sleeve dresses on The RealReal a few months ago (at the urging of my colleague Steff Yotka) but really wish I had this long, lean T-shirt gown.
