Marc Jacobs Review: Buy Luxury Women Fashion

Another one of the newer names on this best handbags brands list, Marc Jacobs, was launched in 1984 by the man himself. Today, it’s owned by LVMH.

The American brand is known for its 90s grunge style and references to pop culture, like Charlie Brown. In its most recent handbag collection sits self-proclaiming bags (they literally say what they are, ie. The Tote Bag)—a modern reinvention of the brand’s most iconic styles.

Marc Jacobs handbags are a mix of materials and prints. The designer uses a lot of cotton, psychedelic prints, and canvas straps, featuring more casual styles, like satchels and backpacks.

Overview of Marc Jacobs

Known for its quality, casual line, Marc Jacobs is loved for the value it offers shoppers, incorporating top-of-the-line fabrics, eye-catching hardware, and luxury designs. But, it sells them for much less than the majority of brands on this best handbag brands list.

Media says that though the designer sort of fell out of fashion after joining the Louis Vuitton team, Marc Jacobs is back with the release of his contemporary line, The Marc Jacobs, which showcases pop graphics and identifiable characters.

His new line is in an effort to reintroduce himself to the world, and while it features cartoon characters, it isn’t aimed at Gen Z. Millennials seem to be the ones who mostly tout the line, with most bags going for around $135-$550.

The Marc Jacobs Snapshot bag features quite a bit of metal hardware, with the strap being attachable via two large clips. It also features bold chunky zips and a metal double J design on the front. The metal hardware come in various colours to complement each bag and give it that classy but bold look.

Made from Saffiano leather, the Snapshot bag is very robust and easy to keep clean. It is also pretty versatile and you can buy different straps to mix and match the colours, which makes it a practical bag to have in your closet.

Marc Jacobs Snapshot Bags Review

Taking over your insta feed, Marc Jacobs Snapshots and Soft shots are everywhere as the new it-bag on every influencer’s arm. As one of the most customisable and versatile designer bags we’ve seen in a while, we’re huge fans, constantly planning what colour or strap we want next.

But what exactly is the difference between the Marc Jacobs Snapshot and the newer Softshot? Here to help you make the decision, here’s a breakdown of the Marc Jacobs Snapshot vs the Softshot…

If there’s one thing I know for sure about my approach to style, it’s that I’m totally a bag lady. Bags – and their contents – always fascintate me. There’s no aspect of fashion as guaranteed to get me obsessed.

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Over the years, I’ve learnt that a well made accessory gives me a huge amount of pleasure. And although I still find the odd irresistible bargain, these days I prefer to save up for something that will really last. The first job I had with a bonus, I spent it on a Mulberry Alexa and my collection has just gone from there.

The latest addition to my collection is a bag which seems to be all over the internet – its bold colour blocking, wide canvas strap and neat, boxy shape seem to be capturing everyone’s imagination. The Marc Jacobs Snapshot had to be mine.

The Snapshot has been a best seller for the designer since launching and even though it’s a very small bag, it’s also supremely practical as well as stylish. When I was recently in Florence, I spotted several immaculately dressed ladies rocking it – and one very fabulous looking guy.

It’s a luxury bag but at quite an accessible price point compared to many – it can be yours for £290.00, which isn’t that dear for a designer bag, and one that is made to such sturdy quality. This is no delicate Chanel lambskin – it’s definitely robust enough to stand up to daily life. The bag comes in a huge array of colours, from sleek neutrals to eye popping brights.

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Being a practical sort, I opted for the classic French Grey colourway, which also has white and black panels. They have a spotted version which I love as well – and floral, bejewelled, covered in cartoon frogs! There really is something for everyone.

Each colour bag also comes with its own strap design – in this case a black, white and gold metallic canvas with the Marc Jacobs name repeated on it – but other options have geometric or striped designs.

You can purchase additional straps from Marc Jacobs and customise to your heart’s content. The bold design is a big part of the look of the bag, and having such a broad strap makes it very comfortable to wear. It’s easy to adjust the length of the strap to suit your height, and wear it as either a cross body bag or off the shoulder.

A big feature of the bag is Marc Jacobs’ signature bold, gold hardware – chunky zips with the logo, large clips attaching the strap to the bag, and a gold metal double J design on the front panel – all quite sleek.

The top panel is also embossed with the Marc Jacobs New York logo. It’s a little more shouty than I usually like my bags, but that is the vibe here – a bit 80s and the kind of bag which would sit well with the athleisure mega-trend. It’s a very sporty, cool, youthful look, while the bold strap really makes it stand out.

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Storage wise, although the Snapshot is compact and structured, it holds more than you might expect. I’m a fan of travelling light anyway, and I like that I can have this smaller cross body with all of my personal items, and keep the kids stuff in a separate tote if we’re heading out for the day.

To give some comparison, the bag holds more than my Chanel Wallet On Chain, which really does make anyone into a Minimalist whether they want to be or not!

There are two zipped compartments, one with a divider internally. I can fit my phone, a small wallet, keys, some mints, makeup essentials – lipstick, powder and concealer – and my sunglasses in comfortably.

You could possibly squeeze in a little bit more, but I keep one compartment exclusively for my phone, as I pull it in and out so much and I don’t want other things flying out and getting lost.

There is also a small slip pocket on the back that I haven’t found a use for yet! It would work well if you use an Oyster card or something of that size that you need to keep handy, or if your phone is small enough to fit comfortably in there (mine isn’t, but then it is a Plus model with a large screen).

The size and shape, practical durability and bold style make this bag the ideal new addition to your collection, in my humble opinion. They might also be why the Snapshot bag is turning into a juggernaut trend – so why not get on board?

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As a diagnostic category, “Fashion Week” has lost much of its oomph. When is Fashion Week and when isn’t Fashion Week is increasingly a matter of confusion, even to those of us who are tasked with covering it. (As a Vogue writer murmured to me last night, it’s always Fashion Week somewhere.) Marc Jacobs used to be the tentpole of New York Fashion Week. But last night, at the grand New York Public Library building on Fifth Avenue, the one guarded by Patience and Fortitude, Jacobs staged his own show, on his own time.

Patience, if not Fortitude, is generally anathema to fashion. But Jacobs took the opportunity the pandemic provided to decelerate, to skip a beat. His last show was 16 months ago, a Roman candle of excitement and energy in an entirely different fashion moment in an entirely different world. “Our decision to pause allowed us to slow down,” Jacobs wrote in his show notes last night, “reflect, ruminate, reevaluate, grieve, and take a thorough inventory of what works, what doesn’t work, what we love, what we are willing to let go of, and what has value, importance, and meaning.”

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So as the fashion week machinery cranked back up, some of it is as it has ever been — the street-style photographers waiting outside, the double-kissed cheeks, the questions about summer plans as a vaccinated industry returns to flying off to L.A. to shoot and Mykonos to tan — and some of it is different. To start, there was no week, just Jacobs showing alone on a sweltering summering evening.

At the same time, the year’s copious digital-only presentations haven’t always felt worthwhile. Though innovative, experimenting with new formats can become time-consuming and expensive, with the only real return on investment being the occasional magazine write-up and praise via Instagram comments. As an article from Harper’s Bazaar noted last July, “There’s an electricity and emotion that a physical show conveys that we haven’t yet seen replicated in their virtual forms.”

Jacobs’s show is usually the tip of the spear for his collections, which will then be dispersed to stores around the world, but not this one: Lately, he’s rejigged his business to angle it more toward its lower-priced lines, and this runway collection will go to just one, Bergdorf Goodman (strollers down Fifth Avenue last night could’ve caught it projected on the side of its façade), making Jacobs a kind of heir to Halston, who was for a time one of Bergdorf’s house brands. It coaxed Jacobs to a collection that feels akin to couture.

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The cocooning shapes, the puffed-up volumes, and the slouchy way the models draped their coats and their faux-fur stoles made them seem like the socialites of an earlier era fluttering back through ours.

But the way they slouched on their hooflike wedges, the way they dragged those stoles carelessly behind them — that’s all Marc. (For all the fashion references, the nods at the Space Age and the ’60s, I also smelled the old New York rave boutique Liquid Sky in the puddly iridescent pants, and South Park’s constantly killed Kenny McCormick in the mega hoods; that mix, too, is very Marc.)

But more than any of its references, to fashion history and to Jacobs’s own past (his collections will always have both), there was a sense of movement — that’s why, I suspect, Jacobs photographed all of the looks not head-on as usual, but from the side. Each of his models became a little vector of forward motion, and each one came out twice: the first swaddled in her (or his, or their) coats and hats and hoods and, yes, masks, and then, the second time, mostly without them.

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It was impossible not to see a nod at our armored, prophylactic last year in the covered-up looks of the first round, an anxiety underscored by the nervy, sawing strings of Max Richter, who composed dystopian airs for The Leftovers and Black Mirror, on the soundtrack.

But it was hard not to be buoyed, too, when the models molted and reemerged, color breaking through what had begun as stark black and white. They disappeared up the library stairs, ascending, followed out by a final dress in brilliant yellow. Here comes the sun.