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You've seen it all over your social media feed. Boys and girls rocking football-inspired outfits in different ways. Add a pair of classic adidas T-toe shoes like Samba, Gazelle or Spezial and you've got yourself a look. But, where does blokecore come from and how do you stay on the ball with this trend?

TO THE #CORE

It's all in a name. As we spend our time finding inspiration from pockets around the world, we scroll and connect with other trendsetters all over the world who share the same interests as us. Our little fashion quirks are no longer sacred to our bedroom mirror. There are others out there who find the same joy in discovering new trends.

Thus, the 'core' movement began. It's a way to put a label on niche trends scattered across little squares and GRWM videos online. You've probably heard of a few already - gorpcore, retrocore, angelcore - but what is blokecore and where did it originate?

THE TIMELESS APPEAL OF '90S SPORTS JERSEYS

Blokecore didn't just drop out of the sky. The trend began back in the 70s and 80s and carried on well into the 90s and 2000s. And we're not just talking about famous footballers wearing their kit on the pitch or making fashion statements in their spare time. We're talking about fans who were in the midst of a fashion revolution without even knowing it.

Press the rewind button to when British football lovers - mostly men - would fill stadiums with cheers and sport their best outfit, often consisting of a football shirt and adidas trainers. Hence the name 'blokecore.' If you didn't know, 'bloke' is a British term for a man. However, the trend doesn't limit itself to any gender.

Another link to this trend is the subculture 'the casuals'. This is where fans would kit themselves in designer, fashion-forward gear to make a statement when watching games. It would also help them blend into the crowd. Naturally, this saw high-end designers infuse football aesthetics into their collections. So, the 'blokes' were now blending fashion with fandom and inspiring trends from early on.

Fast forward to the present and a similar movement is hitting streets, and screens, around the world. Let's admit it, mixing athleisure with a non-sporty everyday outfit isn't ground-breaking, but since the 2020 Euros, football fashion has been gaining momentum. So, what elevates Blokecore from wearing a football jersey to a viral trend?

VIBES ON AND OFF THE PITCH

Wanting to add Blokecore to your roster? Say less. Here's the iconic formula to make sure you're hitting the mark every time while sticking to the retro essence of it all. The rise of blokecore is a natural progression of the stadium style in fashion, and that's why you don't need to be a football fan to style it up.

Find yourself a football shirt. Wear a rework of a nostalgic style, find a vintage gem or opt for your local teams - hello Arsenal and Man U! Don't limit yourself to one colour combo and switch up your blokecore style depending on your mood - or activity. Wearing this trend isn't just for die-hard fans. You can still get in the spirit with your football-inspired fit and watch from the sidelines.

The football jersey isn't the only piece of sportswear you need to rock the OOTD. Cop yourself a pair of T-Toe shoes. A non-negotiable part of the blokecore movement is lacing up a pair of colourful Samba, Gazelle or Spezial shoes. Campus or Adidas VL Courts are also a versatile option for your fit check.

Whether you're a football fan or in it for the aesthetic, find yourself a football-inspired jersey and wear it the way you want to tap into the blokecore trend.

BLOKETTE: TWO TRENDS BLEND

Along with blokecore aesthetic, the coquette has been booming on social media and IRL. Coquette can be seen as the complete opposite of boisterous football crowds and androgynous outfits. Bows, ballet-aesthetic and Bridgerton vibes in one, this trend combines all things princess-y.

But what happens when two fashion-forward trends collide? You get... drumroll please...Blokette. This is all about merging two seemingly different aesthetics. It's the contrast between feminine and football. Big and baggy and frilly and flowy.

Recently, supermodels and trendsetters have joined the Blokette hype, pairing their choice of football jerseys and skirts with adidas trainers. Because who says you can't wear calf-length socks with ballet pumps, a corseted dress with sneakers, or your football shirt with a lacy skirt and legwarmers?

The blokette trend is a testament to true style lovers doing their thing with confidence and pushing boundaries when it comes to fashion norms. There's no room for sticking to rules or colouring within the lines. If anything, blokette is a reminder to express yourself in a way that works for you.

SPORT IT YOUR WAY

With a rich history and an exciting future ahead, it's no surprise this football-inspired trend isn't going anywhere. So, whether you're showing your love for your team or just want an on-trend way to wear your T-toe adidas sneakers, adding some replicas or authentic jerseys to your wardrobe is the way to go.

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Stadium to Street: Blokecore is the Hottest Trend

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You've seen it all over your social media feed. Boys and girls rocking football-inspired outfits in different ways. Add a pair of classic adidas T-toe shoes like Samba, Gazelle or Spezial and you've got yourself a look. But, where does blokecore come from and how do you stay on the ball with this trend?

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We've scrolled through social media, sussed out what streetwear trendsetters are wearing, and can confirm - the Gazelle is quickly reclaiming it-shoe status.

Core-trends in particular help determine what's hot. So, if you're looking for some fresh style inspo or want to stay on the pulse of what's trendy, keep reading.

GETTING TO THE CORE

You've probably heard of different 'core' style trends floating around online - cottage-core, retro-core, angel-core - but let's be real, what does any of this even mean?

Simply put, 'core fashion trends' are the latest way to embody niche fashion and lifestyle trends.

Whether you're loyal to cottage-core's light flowy fabrics, straw hats, and floral patterns or you're dusting off mom's box of '80s clothes for a retro-core vibe, 'core fashion trends' express specific esthetics through style.

In 2023, bloke-core is getting all the hype - let's see what it's all about.

BLOKE-CORE & BLOKETTE-CORE: WHEN SOCCER CULTURE MEETS FASHION

Leading up to the 2022 FIFA World Cup™ fans excitedly sported soccer shirts - pairing their tees with everyday wear like low-rise jeans, funky belts, and most importantly: adidas sneakers. 'Bloke-core' quickly earned a spot in the streetwear hall of fame thanks to a growing love for vintage apparel and footwear. And, with the upcoming FIFA Women´s World Cup™, the style is surely here to stay.

'Bloke-core,' as the style was named, took inspiration from 'blokes' in the '90s who would sport soccer attire on and off the pitch. (A 'bloke' is UK slang for men who live and breathe soccer.) With the ball rolling, the trend quickly made its way beyond soccer fans and into the grasp of this generation's streetwear trendsetters.

GET THE LOOK:

To nail bloke-core, tuck your favorite soccer shirt into loose jeans or cargo pants with your belt of choice. To accessorize, stack on some rings, throw on a beanie or cap, and finish off your fit with adidas Gazelles. (Bonus points if you're rocking a mullet or moustache).

BLOKETTE ON THE BLOCK

Looking to add an element of feminine flair to your look? We got you - there's also a sister trend to bloke-core: blokette-core.

Blokette meshes feminine fits such as skirts, pantyhose, jewelry, and delicate patterns with the bold colors and prints of soccer shirts. Recently, supermodels and trendsetters have joined the Blokette hype, pairing their choice of soccer shirts and skirts with adidas sneakers.

GET THE LOOK:

Start with a cropped or full-length shirt from your favorite soccer team. Next, pair the top with a skirt and an athletic zip-up jacket. Don't forget to accessorize with sunglasses, ribbons, legwarmers, or dainty jewelry. Of course, tie your look together with a pair of adidas Gazelles.

Hot tip: Gazelle's come in an extensive variety of colors - so take your pick and cop a pair that matches your soccer club's colors.

A SHOE THAT KEEPS UP

Since the 1960s, the versatile Gazelle has remained one of adidas' most iconic sneakers. Lending itself to trends of the past, present, and future, the Gazelle is continuously reimagined and restyled - living up to its reputation as a modern classic for all.

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"Don't think about animals. Think about beauty," says Russian fashion designer Igor Gulyaev, in his store brimming with fur coats.

"I guess that's what it all comes down to, right?" muses presenter Reggie Yates, a natural in front of the camera, where he's been since he was eight. He has a knack for acknowledgements that speak truth to the viewer without alienating his interviewees.

It's a talent that served him particularly well in last night's Inside a Billionaire's Wardrobe (BBC2), which explored the sourcing of animal skins for an ever-growing luxury market. Yates first went to Siberia to follow hunters on the trail of wild sable ("It's at moments like this," says Yates, watching his companions chop enormous logs in sub-zero temperatures, "that you realise how much of a man you aren't. Maybe I can help carry..."). They caught one and skinned it carefully to provide one fortieth of what it will take to make one of Igor's coats. Undamaged, it will net them about $90 (£62). In the west, a wild sable coat can retail for over €1m (£777,000).

That wild sable, you could argue as his pale pink carcass was tossed out into the snow, was one of the lucky ones. Yates's next stop was a fur farm in Kursk, where 70,000 mink, sables and other animals are bred and killed every year. They whirl around in tiny cages in endless desperation ("They need to move to keep warm," explains the owner. "They are comfortable"). What conditions are like in China, where farmed fur can cost less than fake fur, does not bear thinking about.

But we must have our coats, our trimmings, our "entry-level" products, as one retail expert described the likes of Fendi's pompoms for attaching to accessories, purses and handbags. So on we went to Australia to see crocodiles bred for their skins, and Indonesia to watch bagfuls of snakes caught by impoverished locals ("Usually I would pull its teeth out with a stick," says one inquiringly, but Yates shakes his head), killed with a spike up the nose and sold for a few dollars to make goods that will eventually retail for thousands. The hunters have already noticed that some breeds are absent from formerly populous areas. Indonesian legislation is so threadbare that it makes any claims made by retailers to sustainability questionable. But you've got to remember that some of those animals may have ended up as the patches (of boa constrictor, crocodile, ostrich, python, elephant, sting ray, lizard and more) on one of just 10 pairs of customised trainers known as Brooklyn Zoos: maybe even on the very ones worn by Jay Z! Who wouldn't say yes to a spike through the brain for that kind of glory?

Fashion has saved the Australian saltwater crocodile, hunted almost to extinction, by making it economically viable. Habitats are now preserved to supply eggs to farms. The hatchlings are reared til four, when their bellies are wide enough to be turned into handbags. Congratulations, humanity. Sustainable killing to service insane luxury has become the best we can hope for.

This wasn't the flaying of the industry some will have hoped for, but it was the kind of good, clear, unsensationalist examination that perhaps encourages people to sit down and keep watching rather than bring the mental shutters down in horror. Let's hope.

That talk brings us neatly to Camping (Sky Atlantic), the latest Julia Davis masterpiece, whose six-part tale of holiday misadventures came to an end last night. I was entirely broken by the opening few minutes of the finale, which began with Noel (David Bamber, whose penis I hope gets nominated for a Bafta) describing to Fiona how his wife "pooed away her entire body" and got steadily worse, which is to say better, which is to say worse, which is how things go in the barbarically knotted world of Davis. I remember only fragments after that: Tom's haunted face as he was required to go down on Adam ("It's - mmph - like a hammer!"). Kerry in her ketamine stupor. Adam shagging Fay with kidneys on his head. Robin sniffing Fay's breasts. Separately. "Mummy's stinky was bald" briefly replacing Hunderby's "bubbly milk" as the worst thing I have ever heard until "Her urethra's very fat and raw". I laughed until my own was in danger of giving way and then, abruptly, as Fiona grabbed Robin's hand as she sobbed in the wake of his confession, I cried. Oh, the humanity.

She's an appalling genius, that Davis. I shall need a holiday to recover. Not camping.

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Not many New York designers (or anywhere) are still around and working to celebrate 40 years at the brands they founded.

anniversary.While plenty of that has existed in the past at a Marc Jacobs show (including his
Notable exceptions are Ralph Lauren, Michael Kors, Tommy Hilfiger, Anna Sui, and, of course, Marc Jacobs, who at 60 is the youngest in the line-up. On Friday, a week before the official start of New York Fashion Week, Jacobs showed his latest collection, marking the brand's 40

Rather than throw a big splashy affair, the designer kept the outing subdued and focused squarely on the clothes themselves; a rather refreshing take, compared to mega fashion shows of late with crazy amounts of celebrities, influencers, complex sets and installations, and even far-flung locations all tailored to satiate today's digital appetite.
Louis Vuitton-era shows), today, he seems to have transcended the need for accolades and paparazzi frenzy. The vast space of the Park Avenue Armory-a favorite of the designer's along with the Lexington Avenue National Guard Armory-was set up with two single rows of chairs for the guests-that included the stunning larger-than-life Debbie Harry-for a staging he has used in previous shows, but this one played with a theme of the show: proportion.

At the top of the runway was a classic design folding card table and four chairs, a 2006 artwork by Robert Therrien called 'No Title (Folding Table and Chairs, Beige)', which was supersized to accommodate approximately a 30-foot person. However banal and efficient the game table design is, it took on a new interest in the large dimensions.

In the notes for the show entitled 'Wonder', Jacobs offered a glimpse of his collection inspiration in the following passage.

"My love for the commonplace is a constant and meaningful lifelong affair. Through the unavoidable lens of time, my glass remains full of wonder and reflection. By examining the memorable and the mundane, we abstract and exaggerate with a disorienting familiarity in our desire to express something naïve and elegant," said Jacobs.

As the first look appeared, an oversized fifties-era pencil skirt paired with a boxy take on a fitted bodice top, the artwork helped to punctuate enormous silhouettes. Gargantuan to the point that the clothes seem to rest off the body rather than on. It was an effect some guests likened to paper dolls, whose ready-made looks expressed a similar appearance; they never quite looked as natural as the permanent undergarments the flat cut-out dolls bore.

The genius of overgrowing these clothes, which could use memorable, elegant, mundane, and naïve descriptors, was indeed abstracted and exaggerated. A pair of dress shorts was pinned both front and back to stay on, a tweed jacket protruded off the back with lapels jutting off in the front, shoulder seam stitching created a vertical seam, Mary Jane pumps, plastic combat boots were misshapen and caricatured while lace-up oxford-style shoes flopped in front being many sizes too big and handbags were big enough for small children to hide in easily.

The clothes weren't simply too big; they didn't fit the body proportionately to the figure but somehow looked size appropriate. Little blazers and shrunken hoodies balanced out exaggerated bottoms such as skirts and track pants. Another tracksuit style riffed on terry cloth sports shorts in the form of panties that sat away from the leg rather than cupped it. Other proportion plays included sleeves that jutted forward from narrow shoulders, giving the look of limp arms, or in contrast, a few styles appeared both shrunken and jumbo, such as a black mini dress with big buttons or an exaggerated bustier dress that skimmed one model's bottom.

The hair was whipped up like cotton candy in massive retro-teased hairstyles ( apropos in light of the hairstyles on the buzzy 'Feud: Capote Vs.The Swans') to balance out the look. In a way, the oversized collection flipped the notion of being 'The world is pretty absurd right now; glimpses of that absurdity were just outside the Armory, where
Great covetable chunky knit sweaters, a structured pea coat, a trompe l'oeil black bikini on a cream knit shell with smart Bermuda shorts, a bralette and skirt, and mirrored gowns each had the look of commercial success. Exquisiteness was witnessed in a sheer pale white flesh tone that was bejeweled with a bevy of multi-colored gemstones.

Instagram-able' as these looks probably shine better IRL. It cemented the fashion moment feeling of it all, which seemed to purposely border on the absurd. Perhaps that thought crossed Jacobs' mind. Maybe this faux, almost cartoon idea of who we are was examined through Jacobs's gigantic-sized collection.

PETA showed up once again to protest the low-key show from the designer (never primarily known for furs, FYI) and another protest outside of the Americas Society/Council of the Americas, aka AS/COA, on Park Avenue was forming. Right now, who couldn't use this escape into the ludicrous fantasy of fashion?

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Marc Jacobs jumpstarts NYFW with 40th-anniversary collection

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News defiles : The designer took the 'go-big-or-go-home' approach for his collection, marking four decades of his namesake brand. (#1601032)

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All week on social media, Marc Jacobs has been commemorating the 40th anniversary of his brand, including releasing a celebratory campaign starring Cindy Sherman, and a viral video featuring the 60-year-old designer trying and failing to blow out the candles on a dangerously blazing cake.

The expectation, then, was that his new collection, which was presented on Friday night in Manhattan, would be a greatest hits affair. In the end, it transpired that middle age has not mellowed the iconoclastic brand enough to be quite so obvious as that.

Rather, Jacobs' new collection, which was shown inside the Upper East Side's cavernous Park Avenue Armory, was inspired by 1960s paper dolls - specifically the oversized proportions of the paper clothes which were "worn" by those dolls, and attached with tabs. That concept gave the show a surreal edge.

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Many of the clothes had an unusual fit - waistlines jutted out from the hips; the additional fabric of oversized shorts was gathered at the back, sweetheart necklines protruded, while 1960s-style skirt suits were puffed up to oversized, cartoonish proportions.

One model wore a knitted top on which was a trompe l'oeil bikini. There was ironic noughties nostalgia, too, in a play on Juicy Couture-style velour playsuits in My Little Pony colours with Jacobs' name emblazoned in diamanté on the back. There was a touch of the Trebor Softmint advert to the spongy, puffed-up textures which extended to a new, undulating take on Mary Jane platform shoes.

The procession of polished-yet-skewed 1960s and 70s looks also had a touch of The Stepford Wives to them, a novel Jacobs recently posted an image of himself reading on Instagram (under which Paris Hilton, who wore Marc Jacobs to the last Met Gala, and who seems to know how to satirise herself, commented: "Reading is hot.")

The surreal doll's house feel was boosted by the set. It featured No Title (Folding table and chairs, beige), a 2006 work by Robert Therrien of a giant table and chairs. Models walked around this huge installation looking lilliputian and all the more doll-like for their makeup, which comprised multiple pairs of fake, doll-like eyelashes. They also wore large wigs which, according to the show's hairstylist, Duffy, were created in homage to the Supremes, whose influence was felt in the final series of gorgeous 1970s-style bell-sleeved dresses in shimmering gold sequins and palettes.

Photograph: Nina Westervelt/WWD/Getty Images

Some in the audience felt the influence of the Emma Stone movie Poor Things; others saw the mob-wife trend in the 1970s dresses and interpreted the hair as a reference to the bouffants worn by Naomi Watts as Babe Paley in Feud: Capote vs The Swans, the fashion-forward Ryan Murphy show on FX and Hulu in the US. In a sign of Jacobs' continued cultural clout, one of the stars of that show, Chloë Sevigny, was in the audience, wearing a plaid coat from Jacobs' autumn/winter 2007 collection. Other long-term muses and campaign stars in attendance included Sofia Coppola, Dakota Fanning and Debbie Harry, who wore polka dot gloves and tights under a black coat.

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For the fashion experts, there were moments that subtly recalled the designs with which Jacobs made his name in the 90s and 00s: the ladylike coats and jackets, even the oversized knits. (Jacobs' first fashion success was producing oversized knitted sweaters, which were hand-knitted by his grandmother as part of his Parsons College thesis in the 1980s.) But Jacobs' notes distributed at the show were far from nostalgic and only referenced the past obliquely. They declared the collection an effort to express "something naive and elegant" through a "disorienting" familiarity and said: "Through the unavoidable lens of time my glass remains full of wonder and reflection."

This article was amended on 5 February 2024. An earlier version said that Feud: Capote vs The Swans was on Netflix in the US when it is available on FX and Hulu.

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Marc Jacobs surprises with paper doll-inspired 40th anniversary show

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Despite expectations, collection presented in Manhattan was no greatest hits affair

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In the show notes for his 40th anniversary collection, Marc Jacobs described wanting to explore a "disorienting familiarity" to "express something naive and elegant." In an uncanny blend of reality and fantasy, the clothes shared the stiff, large, and boxy proportions of those "worn" by paper dolls, upon which countless different outfits can be layered and replaced with incomparable speed and ease. On look 26, the sleeves were cut shorter in the front than in the back, creating a reverse trompe l'oeil effect wherein a three dimensional sweater was made to appear totally flat when viewed straight on. A gigantic Robert Therrien sculpture of a beige folding table and chairs in the vast, conspicuously sparse Park Avenue Armoury immediately placed the audience in the world of dioramas and dollhouses, miniatures and imagination.

Style-wise, there was a sense of temporal progression from mid-century Manhattan socialites up through 2000s pink velour. But the looks I've been reflecting on the most belonged to the coterie of petulant youths in stiff sweatshirts that pulled their shoulders forward, trudging with their arms dangling in front of them like children forced to appear before their parents' friends, determined to retain a sour expression throughout. Lulu Tenney, look 22, wore an anomalously bright scarlet sweatshirt and gigantic brown shorts, distinguished by her outfit's vivid color and boyish fit. When I saw her adjust her hair (one of many voluminously coiffed wigs designed by hairstylist Duffy) on the runway as she passed by my seat to prevent it from slipping off, it appeared less as her deftly resolving a technical gaffe than an apt expression of character. This was not the look I'd necessarily most easily see myself in (for day-to-day, I'd be more inclined toward the heavy knitwear of look number 7, modeled by Alex Consani, or, for fun, look 39, a short black dress where the bottom curves upward in a playful grin), but I remember it well because I believe it serves as a sort of key to interpreting the rest of the collection. The more youthful and naive ensembles made me especially attentive to a story being told about time, memory, transformation, and curiosity. Would all of the young girls in cartoonishly large, shiny shorts one day become those same women wearing black, gold, and navy evening gowns?

As much as the models resembled paper dolls, they also resemble children dressing up in their mothers' closets, wearing clothes a little too big, a little too stiff, equally proud and shy, "naive and elegant." Elsewhere in the show notes, Jacobs meditated on wonder "through the unavoidable lens of time", quoting Robert Therrien thus: "The further back I can trace something as being meaningful to me in some way or another...the more I am attracted to it." Rather than cataloging nostalgic signifiers in an auto-cannibalistic collage, Jacobs sought to remind us of the constant possibility that what we once thought familiar may suddenly become curious and strange again, without notice. It was a show about the allure of what we only half understand, and the realization that halfway is perhaps the closest we can ever really come to fully understanding anything. At most shows, the lights go darker to signal the start and return to full brightness when the fantasy ends. At Marc Jacobs' fortieth anniversary, we entered in the dark and returned to it after playtime was over. The real world remained a shadowed mystery, briefly illuminated by wonder.

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In the show notes for his 40th anniversary collection, Marc Jacobs described wanting to explore a "disorienting familiarity" to "express something naive and elegant." In an uncanny blend of reality and fantasy, the clothes shared the stiff, large, and boxy proportions of those "worn" by paper dolls,

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Only Nicole Phelps, the director of Vogue Runway, could get the high-flying designer Marc Jacobs into a podcast studio-and for this week's episode, she did just that. It's a momentous time for Marc, who is celebrating the 40th anniversary of his brand, launched just after he left Parsons School of Design in 1984. Just last Friday, he also preempted New York Fashion Week with his fabulous spring 2024 ready-to-wear collection, presented at the Park Avenue Armory.

Nicole and Marc began by discussing his recent show-from the general sense of wonder permeating the clothes, to the exaggerated silhouettes of the doll-like models who walked down the runway. Then, they backtracked to Marc's teenage years and his early days in fashion; a time when he dyed his hair orange, wore futuristic, Mugler-inspired jumpsuits, and worked at the now-defunct cult boutique Charivari. He shared a few wild stories from that era, one of which involved planning a party for Kansai Yamamoto in a fish market. (It was chicer than it sounds!)

They also talked about the ubiquitous Marc Jacobs tote, an item he never dreamed would have such a hold on the American consumer. The "It bag" might be a disappearing phenomenon, but from the Venetia bag-which made an appearance in The Devil Wears Prada -to The Tote Bag, Marc has produced his fair share. Indeed, themes of relevance and aging recurred during the hour-and-a-half-long chat, but Marc, happily, doesn't seem to be going anywhere: "I'm not done-like, I still want to tell stories, and I still want to work in fashion."

But before all of that, at the top of the show Chioma and Chloe reflected on this week's fashion news, which included the recent appointment of Zac Posen as creative director of Gap-or, as Chioma cheekily put it, "from wedding dresses to white T-shirts." Then, they discussed their favorite fashion-forward looks from the Mexico premiere of Dune: Part 2, where Zendaya and Florence Pugh stunted in Bottega Veneta and Standing Ground, respectively. Sorry, Timothée, but the girlies outshone you this time.

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On the Podcast: Marc Jacobs Celebrates His Brand's 40th Anniversary

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This week, designer Marc Jacobs joins Nicole Phelps to discuss his brand's 40th anniversary and his latest collection.