Taylor Hill Fronts Isabel Marant FW 2020 Campaign by Mark Rabadan

Model Taylor Hill imbues Isabel Marant’s fall-winter 2020 accessories campaign with the Parisian designer’s cool, glamorous aesthetic. Photographer Mark Rabadan (IG) flashes Marant’s chic jewelry, boots and handbags, styled by Laëtitia Leporcq.

As Net-a-Porter’s Gillian Brett noted in an interview days before Isabel Marant’s March fall 2020 show in Paris, the designer’s formula is “still appealing to women of all ages.”

“For me, life is music,” she told Brett ,[ as she reeled ] off her current obsessions: an eclectic mix, including Nigerian artists Burna Boy and Fela, British singer James Blake, and Kazu Makino, a Japanese musician who formerly fronted alt-rock band Blonde Redhead. In many ways, music was Marant’s first love, and the thing that fortuitously led her to fashion. Picture Paris in the early ’80s: a refined take on sartorial excess cohabits incompatibly with the burgeoning punk movement. A 16-year-old Marant and her then-boyfriend and future fellow designer Christophe Lemaire immerse themselves in the decade’s diverse club scene. “One night it was rockabilly, the day after it was punk or new wave, and another day it was ragamuffin – there were no barriers between all the groups, and we loved playing with all the different looks from the musical trends.” Soon, the pair felt inspired to make clothes together, for themselves and their friends.

Pre-COVID pandemic, Isabel Marant seemed to have her head on straight. The designer works from 8am to midnight five days a week, then switches gears for her strict, work-free weekend in the countryside. Marant, husband handbag designer Jérôme Dreyfuss, and their 17-year-old son Tal head to a country cabin in Fontainebleau, where they live in concert with nature. The cabin has no electricity or running water.

“I do a lot of gardening. I must say, it’s helping my head – it’s very joyful to see a real result of what you have been doing. I walk a lot in the forest. I swim in summertime,” Marant explains, emphasizing her love of welcoming friends to her retreat that’s spartan in amenities, butnot not the joy of connections. “I am very good at cooking in five minutes for 20 people. I don’t like to spend hours at it; I am very efficient.”

Read on at Net-a-Porter about just how excited Isabel Marant becomes seeing her clothes on people from 15 years old to 80.