Ensemble

Design House Marc Jacobs American
 Designer Marc Jacobs American
 Hat designed by Stephen Jones British

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This broad-shouldered, androgynous silhouette by American designer Marc Jacobs was inspired by 1980s fashion designers such as Claude Montana, Emanuel Ungaro and Thierry Mugler. Jacobs started his own brand in the late 1980s, at the pinnacle of 'power dressing,' when double-breasted, broad-shouldered suits conveyed the wearer’s socio-economic status and corporate power, regardless of gender. The woolen men's suit, worn by a woman, reflects the zeitgeist of both the 1980s and the late 2010s, in which issues like equality of men and women in the workplace and the concept of the glass ceiling often occur in public discourse.

Ensemble, Marc Jacobs (American, founded 1984), (a) wool, silk; (b) silk; (c) silk, metal; (d) wool, silk; (e) silk; (f) wool, silk; (g, h) silk, leather, metal; (i, j) silk, metal, American

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Ensemble, Marc Jacobs (American, founded 1984), (a) wool, silk; (b) silk; (c) silk, metal; (d) wool, silk; (e) silk; (f) wool, silk; (g, h) silk, leather, metal; (i, j) silk, metal, American
Ensemble, Marc Jacobs (American, founded 1984), (a) wool, silk; (b) silk; (c) silk, metal; (d) wool, silk; (e) silk; (f) wool, silk; (g, h) silk, leather, metal; (i, j) silk, metal, American

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