There are only a few designers who truly understand ‘womanly’ at any age. Marc Jacobs is such a designer, along with Miuccia Prada.

Watching video from last week’s Louis Vuitton show in Paris, I went looking for this photo, from the Marc Jacobs Spring 2008 collection. Jacobs took aim then at what I call New Eroticism and Smart Sensuality.

Conceptually, these trends express ‘sexy’ from a woman’s point of view. Writing about Marc Jacobs’ namesake collection here in New York, I said: