Bette Midler Joins Transgender Lana Wachowski for Marc Jacobs' Spring Campaign
Marc Jacobs continues to put the people who have inspired him to front his Spring/Summer 2016 campaign. This time, the fashion designer chose Better Midler since she has reportedly become a part of his foray into the fashion world.
Jacobs took to his Instagram page to share a photo of Midler taken by photographer David Sims. "What a privilege it is to know your heroes," he captioned the snap.
For the label's Spring/Summer 2016 campaign, the actress wore an artistic oversized t-shirt dress printed with a woman's face all over it. Midler channeled the woman's facial expression for her photo shoot, as she posed with her mouth open while holding her hands up to her curly hair.
Jacobs dedicated Midler's portrait to the actress' "beauty, her brass, her glamour" to her vitality, energy, curve and nerve.
On his Instagram post, the fashion designer also revealed his reasons for choosing Midler for his Spring/Summer 2016 campaign. Jacobs stated the actress was among the people who have inspired him to go into fashion.
"To this day, I still credit Bette Midler (unbeknownst to her) with a large part of my foray into fashion design. At age ten when I discovered the image drawn by Richard Amsel for her album cover, I was so instantly enamored by the silhouetted Bette in a black dress wearing platform sandals with a wedge of red curly hair that I recreated it on the back of a jean jacket with acrylic paint and embroidery floss and proudly wore it to school," Jacobs wrote along with Midler's photo.
Jacobs said it was after watching a documentary about Midler's career in New York City that he decided to get her for his fashion campaign. Something in what the singer said in her documentary, about retracing her past in New York, reportedly struck a semblance on the pieces for his Spring/Summer 2016 collection.
"It reminded me of the pride I felt in having the privilege of calling myself a born and raised New Yorker," Jacobs wrote on his Instagram about Midler's documentary.
The 70-year-old Hollywood celebrity joins actress Sandra Bernhard and "Matrix" director Lana Wachowski for Jacobs Spring/Summer 2016 campaign. Midler is the third person unveiled as the new face of Jacob's campaign. The transgender Wachowski was the first to be introduced, followed by the 60-year-old Bernhard.
Aside from these three women, Jacobs also revealed on his Instagram page that models Veronika Vilim and Kiki Willems will be fronting his Spring/Summer 2016 collection.
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