Behind-the-Scenes Exclusive: Marc Jacobs’s Ultimate Fashion Week Theme Party Inline

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    Roger fixing one of the car displays. The legs are from the Marc Jacobs display archives. The Jacobs team found all of the props for us. During our planning meetings we’d throw out the craziest ideas and they had to go to wreck yards and all of these crazy places to find them.

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    Some tires and more legs for the DJ stage.

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    The plywood walls plastered with Von Wangenheim images of Donna Jordan.

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    Refurbished TVs with fire footage, and another car bought and gutted from a salvage yard.

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    Heels for the models.

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    Fur for the models.

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    The vintage furniture was bought from a flea market. I’m sure that whoever once owned those couches and chairs thought they’d end up in a party like this!

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    Mauricio setting up a car-accident display. These cars were very important. We sent the Marc Jacobs visual team the images from our book so they’d know exactly what kind of car to look for.

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    A horse from the Marc Jacobs display archives.

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    More vintage TVs.

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    Roger on one of the gutted cars.

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    The entrance light box with the Gloss cover being put together by the Marc Jacobs visual team.

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    One of the vintage crashed cars with Marc Jacobs archive shoes on the feet of the mannequin legs.

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    Printouts of Chris von Wangenheim images to scatter throughout Tunnel.

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    Us with Marc at Bookmarc for the book signing prior to the party.

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    The models were an homage to the famous Gia Carangi photos taken by Von Wangenheim.