What to Watch After Watching Marc Jacobs

Leaving Marc Jacobs’s fashion show at the Park Avenue Armory, I felt a strong urge to rewatch Clockwatchers, Jill Sprecher’s 1997 comedy about a quartet of misfits in vapid office jobs. It’s a funny little time warp, and the costumes by Edi Giguere — geometric V-necks, turquoise camis and pink tartan midi-skirts — capture a corporate style moment before Banana Republic beige took over.

Jacobs leaned into that mid-to-late ’90s moment. Show notes listed credits and receipts — his own 1995 and 1998 collections, Helmut Lang ’95, Prada ’96 — and the soundtrack included Björk’s “Jóga” (1997). On the runway were tweed skirts in extra-long, long and medium lengths, diagonal-plaid twin sets, soft pink and blue button-ups and even scrunchies.

Read Vanessa Friedman’s full review, then watch Clockwatchers and remain in the ’90s for a while. For more time-warpy viewing, look for footage of an X-Girl guerrilla runway in SoHo, staged by Sofia Coppola and Spike Jonze in 1994, and a zippy BBC documentary on Stüssy from the ’90s.

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