The Dakota Fanning for Marc Jacobs ads have been floating around for some time, but I’m afraid I still don’t know how to react. On the one hand, I’m painfully disgusted — pseudo-fashion icon before you hit puberty? seriously? — maybe a little bit jealous, and also completely (yet quite mysteriously) intrigued.
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Meh, it’s Dakota playing dress up in mom’s clothes. No biggy.
Aw, I thought it was cute and artsy. And also ironic that I’m completely sure Marc carry’s Dakota’s size and not mine in most of these clothes.
I love it. It comes in the long tradition in fashion of turning convention on its head (wait, in some ways that’s virtually a definition of fashion). So we are accustomed to seeing blondes…so an entire campaign is done with a redhead. Naturally we are accustomed to seeing women (well, maybe 16 year old “women”) in ads for women’s clothing, so hmmm, what’s a new way to throwover that convention? Use a little girl. And she’s not sexualized the way that the 16-year-old models are, she’s just a little girl wearing cool stuff in a blasé way. Next we’ll do a shoot with a half-dozen 12-year-old boys in Marni. Or wait, the little boys in drag may already have been done…
Anyway, it gets people talking (like the Charlotte Rampling ads and the Jennifer Jason Leigh ads) like a good ad should.
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