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Marc Jacobs
Born (1963-04-09) April 9, 1963 (age 61)
New York City, New York, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Education
Labels
AwardsChevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

Marc Jacobs (born April 9, 1963) is an American fashion designer. He is the head designer for Marc Jacobs, as well as Marc by Marc Jacobs, a diffusion line, with over 200 retail stores in 80 countries.[1] He was the creative director of the French design house Louis Vuitton from 1997 to 2013. Jacobs was on Time magazine's "2010 Time 100" list of the 100 most influential people in the world,[2] and ranked number 14 on Out magazine's 2012 list of "50 Most Powerful Gay Men and Women in America".[3]

Early life and education

Marc Jacobs was born to a non-observant Jewish family in New York City.[4] When he was seven, his father, an agent at the William Morris agency, died. His mother, who remarried three times, was “mentally ill” and “didn’t really take care of her kids”, according to Jacobs.[5] As a teenager, he went to live with his paternal grandmother on the Upper West Side, in an apartment in the Majestic on Central Park West.[6]

He graduated from the High School of Art and Design in 1981 and studied at the Parsons School of Design in New York.[4] While at Parsons in 1984, Jacobs won the Perry Ellis Gold Thimble Award, Chester Weinberg Gold Thimble Award, and Design Student of the Year Award.[7] He also won an award in 1991 from the Council of Fashion Designers of America.

Career

At age 15, Jacobs worked as a stockboy at Charivari, a now-defunct avant-garde clothing boutique in New York City.[8] While still at Parsons, Jacobs designed and sold his first line of hand-knit sweaters. He also designed his first collection for Reuben Thomas, Inc., under the Sketchbook label. With Robert Duffy, Jacobs' creative collaborator, and business partner since the mid-1980s, he formed Jacobs Duffy Designs Inc.[9]

Marc Jacobs Logo

In 1986, backed by Onward Kashiyama USA, Inc., Jacobs designed his first collection bearing the Marc Jacobs label. In 1987, Jacobs was the youngest designer to have ever been awarded the fashion industry's highest tribute, the Council of Fashion Designers of America's Perry Ellis Award for "New Fashion Talent".[10] In 1988, Jacobs and Duffy joined the women's design unit of Perry Ellis as vice president and president, respectively, following the death of its namesake and founder. In addition, Jacobs oversaw the design of the various women's licensees. In 1992, the Council of Fashion Designers of America awarded Jacobs with The Women's Designer of the Year Award. In the same year, he designed a "grunge" collection for Perry Ellis, leading to his dismissal.[11]

In the fall of 1993, Jacobs Duffy Designs Inc. launched their own licensing and design company: Marc Jacobs International Company, L.P.[10] In 1994, Jacobs produced his first full collection of menswear.[citation needed] In 1997, Jacobs was appointed Louis Vuitton's creative director, where he created the company's first ready-to-wear clothing line.[11] Jacobs has collaborated with many popular artists for his Louis Vuitton collections, including Stephen Sprouse, Takashi Murakami and most recently American artist Richard Prince and rapper Kanye West,[12]

In the spring of 2001, Jacobs introduced his secondary line, Marc by Marc Jacobs.[8] In 2005, Look was the Marc by Marc Jacobs ready-to-wear license holder in Japan with retail value of €50 million.[13] In 2006, Jacobs started a new line of body-splash fragrances in affordable huge ten-ounce bottles which are distributed by Coty. First only being sold in perfume boutiques, they have become more and more popular during the recent years. In 2007 filmmaker Loïc Prigent released a documentary film about Jacobs entitled Marc Jacobs and Louis Vuitton.[14] In February 2008, Jacobs was accused of plagiarizing a scarf design created in the 1950s by Swedish designer Gösta Olofsson.[15] Jacobs settled the matter by offering monetary compensation to Olofsson’s son.[16] In 2009, Jacobs launched a shirt, sold at his stores,[17] demanding the legalization of gay marriage. In May 2009, Jacobs co-hosted, with fashion model Kate Moss, a "model and muse"-themed gala for the New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute.[18]

In February 2010, Jacobs sued Ed Hardy for infringing on the designs of one of his embroidered handbags.[19] In the course of the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin in July 2011 Jacobs was the patron of the young talent award “Designer for Tomorrow by Peek & Cloppenburg”. The five finalists were selected by Jacob and the juryboard and received a personal coaching by Jacobs. The juryboard and Jacobs appointed the winner of 2011 during the DfT award show.[citation needed] In August 2011, it was reported that Jacobs may succeed John Galliano as creative director of Christian Dior.[20] According to The Daily Telegraph, Jacobs “firmly laid to rest rumours that he was to move to Christian Dior” in January 2012,[21] but rumours prevail.[22]

In February 2013, Jacobs was named the new creative director for Diet Coke. In honor of the brand's 30th anniversary, Jacobs will spend one year where he is slated to give the brand a "stylish and light-hearted" makeover.[23] In March 2013, the New York Daily News revealed that the "faux fur" used in many Marc Jacobs garments is actually the fur from raccoon dogs from China.[24]

In October 2013, after the Spring - Summer 2014 show, it was revealed that Marc Jacobs will leave Louis Vuitton to focus on his own line.[25]

Awards

Council of Fashion Designers:

  • Lifetime Achievement Award, 2011
  • Womenswear Designer of the Year, 2010
  • Accessory Designer of the Year, 2005
  • Accessory Designer of the Year, 2003
  • Menswear Designer of the Year, 2002
  • Accessory Designer of the Year, 1999
  • Accessory Designer of the Year, 1998
  • Womenswear Designer of the Year, 1997
  • Womenswear Designer of the Year, 1992
  • Womenswear Designer of the Year, 1991

Marc Jacobs stores

Marc Jacobs storefront in New York City


In Summer 2013, there were 285 Marc Jacobs retail stores (including Marc by Marc Jacobs & Marc Jacobs Collection )in 60 countries. In 2014 Spring, the Marc Jacobs Global flagship store will open in Shanghai.[26]

Style

Explaining his clothes, Jacobs has said "what I prefer is that even if someone feels hedonistic, they don't look it. Curiosity about sex is much more interesting to me than domination. ... My clothes are not hot. Never. Never."[6] The audience for his fashion shows typically includes celebrities like Kim Gordon and Vincent Gallo.[27] Guy Trebay, a critic for The New York Times, in response to Oscar de la Renta's comment that a coat designed by Jacobs closely resembled one that de la Renta had designed thirty years earlier, wrote that "unlike the many brand-name designers who promote the illusion that their output results from a single prodigious creativity, Mr. Jacobs makes no pretense that fashion emerges full blown from the head of one solitary genius".[28]

Cancer research project

Jacobs has an ongoing project entitled, "Protect The Skin You're In", which has celebrities pose nude, with their breasts and frontal area covered, for T-shirts to raise awareness about melanoma and all sales benefit research at the NYU Langone Medical Center. Some of the celebrities that have posed are: Miley Cyrus, Eva Mendes, Kate Upton, Victoria Beckham, Heidi Klum, Hilary Swank and Naomi Campbell.[29]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Marc Jacobs". [[Glamour (magazine)|]].
  2. ^ "The 2010 Time 100". Time. April 29, 2010.
  3. ^ "The Power List". Out. Retrieved October 31, 2012.
  4. ^ a b Wilson, Eric. "Marc Jacobs". The New York Times. Retrieved April 10, 2013.
  5. ^ Levy, Ariel (September 11, 2008). "Profiles: Enchanted. The transformation of Marck Gustavo Jacobs". The New Yorker. Retrieved September 7, 2011.
  6. ^ a b Larocca, Amy (August 21, 2005). "Lost and Found". New York. Retrieved September 7, 2011.
  7. ^ "Marc Jacobs". Fashion Model Directory. Retrieved September 7, 2011.
  8. ^ a b "Marc Jacobs". Voguepedia. Retrieved September 7, 2011.
  9. ^ Singer, Sally (Summer 2008). "Robert Duffy". 032c. No. 15.
  10. ^ a b "Biographie". Marc Jacobs Website.
  11. ^ a b Craven, Jo (May 11, 2011). "Marc Jacobs". British Vogue. Retrieved September 7, 2011.
  12. ^ "Louis Vuitton - Designer Fashion Label". New York Magazine. New York Media. October 31, 2011.
  13. ^ Chevalier, Michel (2012). Luxury Brand Management. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-118-17176-9.
  14. ^ Feaster, Felicia (March 12, 2008). "DVD: Marc Jacobs, the Pixie". New York Press.
  15. ^ "Marc Jacobs plagiarized my dad's scarf". The Local. February 19, 2008.
  16. ^ "US Fashion Designer Makes 'Plagiarized' Scarf Payout". The Local. March 4, 2008.
  17. ^ "Towleroad: Marc Jacobs T-Shirts Demand Gay Rights for Taxes".
  18. ^ Soto-Ward, Sylvana (May 4, 2009). "It Duo: Marc Jacobs and Kate Moss". Vogue.
  19. ^ Aboutaleb, Britt. "Fashionista". Fashionista. Retrieved 2013-11-02.
  20. ^ "Marc Jacobs may become Dior creative head - report". Reuters. New York/Paris. August 23, 2011. Retrieved September 7, 2011.
  21. ^ Blanchard, Tamsin (9 January 2012). "Marc Jacobs: Not moving to Dior 'was probably best for everyone'". The Telegraph.
  22. ^ Cowles, Charlotte (March 7, 2012). "Marc Jacobs for Dior Rumors Make a Comeback". nymag.com.
  23. ^ "Marc Jacobs named Diet Coke creative director". Vogue. UK. February 6, 2013.
  24. ^ "Marc Jacobs' 'faux fur' garments actually use the coats of Chinese canines". March 8, 2013.
  25. ^ "Confirmed: Marc Jacobs Is Leaving Louis Vuitton". Vogue.co.uk. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
  26. ^ Mistry, Meenal (August 25, 2011). "Fashion's Better Halves". Wall Street Journal Magazine.
  27. ^ Trebay, Guy (September 13, 2007). "In This Front Row, Downtown Cred". The New York Times.
  28. ^ Trebay, Guy (May 28, 2002). "Familiar, but Not: Marc Jacobs and the Borrower's Art". The New York Times.
  29. ^ "Marc Jacobs Reissues Celebrity "Protect The Skin You're In" Tees To Benefit NYU's Interdisciplinary Melanoma Cooperative Group". NYU. Retrieved 26 July 2013.

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