When Marc Jacobs guest edited the December 2025 issue of Vogue , he invited artist Anna Weyant to contribute a romantic cover . When Weyant was invited by the Cultivist and Capital One to create a Fashion Week fantasy—which became The Dollhouse—she brought in Jacobs, who created staff uniforms and dressed the "models/dolls" who are currently inhabiting her creation in pieces from his 40th anniversary collection . Together, this dream team created a much needed benign alternative reality, one that has little to do with news headlines or even the frenzy of New York Fashion Week. Still, in this world, as in much of Weyant's work, things are not quite what they seem—and that's the point.
"These are pretty dark and uncertain times, and I just wanted to do something fun that would amuse people and bring them joy and entertain them in a bit of an escape from reality," Weyant said. As The Dollhouse "started to develop, I realized I was so inspired by Mark's work and asked if he would be willing to partake in it." Jacobs's spring 2024 show, Weyant noted, "lives rent free in my head"—as it does for many others. The clothes were as striking as the set, featuring ginormous sculptures of a metal folding chair and table by the late Robert Therrien. "I try to stay with themes or objects or sources I can trace back to my personal history. The further back I can trace something as being meaningful to me in some way or another…the more I am attracted to it," he wrote at the time.
The Dollhouse, presented by The Cultivist and Capital One Entertainment at the Academy Mansion, 2 East 63rd Street, is open to the public September 10–12, from 1–4 p.m. There will be daily beauty masterclasses, one featuring doll-like makeup, another with Marc Jacobs's go-to manicurist Mei Kawajiri, and a hair session with Dimitris Giannetos, who will teach looks inspired by those seen on the designer's runways.
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