Marc Jacobs presented his Spring/Summer 2027 show at the New York Public Library on Monday June 29th, returning to the space for the first time in two years. Fans of the designer will rejoice in the colorful display of artful layering and scintillating textures (who knew peach PVC would become a must-have closet staple for the new year?). For the beauty fans in the crowd, the parade of icy blue, sunshine yellow, and luxe lavender pieces felt like an apt reminder that Jacobs recently relaunched his eponymous beauty line, Marc Jacobs Beauty, with a newly youthful, Euphoria-esque aesthetic while maintaining his signature fearless approach to color.
Models sported a rainbow of lipstick shades on the runway, from glossy raspberry to warm crimson, with plenty of flawless nude tones thrown in for good measure. But having grown up in the '90s and early '00s, my eyes went straight to the ring of black eyeliner circling each model's upper and lower lids, with a barely-there wing to elongate the eye shape. Dark, imperfect, and thoroughly unapologetic, the season of the grunge girl is still here it seems, and with Jacobs' pedigree as the king of grunge (recall the infamous 1993 Perry Ellis collection that quite literally got him fired from the brand, while sparking the quintessential early '90s aesthetic) the return to his beauty roots feels like a fitting throwback.
