http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/16/fashion/marc-jacobs-new-york-fashion-week.html 2016-09-16 00:59:58 Marc Jacobs’s Glitterati The final show of New York Fashion Week tipped over the rainbow, and slid down the other side. === Hundreds of light bulbs suspended from the ceiling like so many falling stars dangled over the stage of the Hammerstein Ballroom as the But first, a question. How would Mr. Jacobs, known for his ability to channel that vague thing known as “the moment” into clothes, deal with the trends that have run through the week? The Answer: None of them. He would ignore it all and go his own way. If Towering platforms met truncated hemlines, just barely reaching the thighs. Baby-doll dresses with balloon sleeves and lacy underpinnings kissed up to baseball and jean jackets. And multicolored patchwork scenes from the illustrator Julie Verhoeven — landscapes and kitchenscapes and hearts and hands — were appliquéd all over. It was a mosh pit of glam Rasta hippie froth. No joke. (Though it was kind of funny, and in that sense, was part of the thread of It was also a singular, if somewhat out-there, point of view. There has been a lot of angst recently about the fact that no one is buying, and what it will take to make them start shopping again, and what it is they really want, and so on. This was as good a response as any. Not because it’s likely that many consumers will want to wear a sheer black party dress speckled with sequined licorice Allsorts, or midcalf stretch leather seven-inch platform boots in psychedelic swirls of pink and silver and burgundy (well, except maybe Miss Fame, of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” who was in the audience). But because the bag version, with both a sense of humor and elaborate collaging, will sell and sell. Also the striped sweatshirts. Ka-ching!