bridal hairstyle: Top Fashion Designer Marc Jacobs

Fashion Designer Marc Jacobs

Marc Jacobs - Photographed By MattJones, 2004

Marc Jacobs was born in New YorkCity on April 9, 1963. After graduating from the High School of Art and Designin 1981 he entered Parsons School of Design. As a design student at Parsons,Jacobs was the recipient of some of the schools highest honors including DesignStudent of the Year.

Personal Life

Jacobs, who is openly gay was in a four-yearrelationship with stylist Jason Preston and was in a relationship withadvertising executive Lorenzo Martone. In March 2009, Women's Wear Daily reported that the pairwas engaged after a year of dating. Several reports that they got married werelater denied." And on July 24, Martone announced via Twitter that heand Jacobs had not been together for two months.

Career

At age fifteen, Jacobs worked as astockboy at Charivari, a now-defunct avant-garde clothing boutique in New YorkCity. While still at Parsons, Jacobs designed and sold his first line ofhand-knit sweaters. He also designed his first collection for Reuben Thomas,Inc., under the Sketchbook label.

With Robert Duffy, Jacobs' creativecollaborator, and business partner since the mid-1980s, he formed Jacobs DuffyDesigns Inc., which continues to this day. In a 2008 interview for 032c, Duffyindicated that he remains Jacobs's best friend and confidant.

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 fashionindustry's highest tribute, the Council of Fashion Designers ofAmerica's Perry Ellis Award for New Fashion Talent.

In 1988, Jacobs and Duffy joined the women'sdesign unit of Perry Ellis after its founder, Perry Ellis,had died as vice president and president, respectively. In addition, Jacobsoversaw the design of the various women's licensees. In 1992, the Council of Fashion Designers ofAmerica awarded Jacobs with The Women's Designer of the Year Award. In thesame year, he designed a "grunge" collection for Perry Ellis, leadingto his dismissal.

In the fall of 1993, Jacobs DuffyDesigns Inc. launched their own licensing and design company: Marc JacobsInternational Company, L.P.

In 1994, Jacobs produced his firstfull collection of menswear. In 1997, Jacobs was appointed Louis Vuitton'screative director, where he created the company's first ready-to-wearclothing line. Jacobs has collaborated with many popular artists for his LouisVuitton collections, including StephenSprouse, Takashi Murakami and most recently American artistRichardPrince and rapper Kanye West.

In the spring of 2001, Jacobsintroduced his secondary line, Marc by Marc Jacobs. In 2006, Jacobs started anew line of body-splash fragrances in affordable huge ten-ounce bottles whichare distributed by Coty. First only being sold in perfume boutiques, theyhave become more and more popular during the recent years.

In 2007 filmmaker Loïc Prigent made a documentaryfilm about Jacobs called Marc Jacobs and Louis Vuitton. In February2008, Esquire writer Rob Millan accused Jacobs ofhaving plagiarizeda scarf from hiscollection which had exactly the same design as a scarf created in the 1950s bySwedish designer Gösta Olofsson. Jacobs settled the matter by offering monetarycompensation to Olofsson’s son.

In 2009, Jacobs launched a shirt,sold at his stores, demanding the legalization of gay marriage.

In May 2009, Jacobs co-hosted, with fashionmodel KateMoss, a "model and muse"-themed gala for the New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute.

In February 2010, Jacobs sued Ed Hardy forinfringing on the designs of one of his embroidered handbags.

In the course of the Mercedes-Benz FashionWeek Berlinin July 2011 Jacobs was the patron of the young talent award “Designer forTomorrow by Peek & Cloppenburg”. The five finalistswere selected by Jacob and the juryboard and received a personal coaching byJacobs. The juryboard and Jacobs appointed the winner of 2011 during the DfTaward show.^{[citation needed]}

In August 2011, it was reported thatJacobs may succeed John Galliano as creative director of Christian Dior.

Jacobs is a prominent fixture in the New YorkCity celebrity scene, having become something of a celebrity himself. Theaudience for his fashion shows typically includes celebrities like Kim Gordonand VincentGallo.^[16]Most of his collections make references to the fashions of past decades fromthe 1940s to the 1980s. Disputing the claim by the designer Oscarde la Renta that Jacobs is a mere copyist, Guy Trebay, a critic for The New York Times, has written "unlikethe many brand-name designers who promote the illusion that their outputresults from a single prodigious creativity, Mr. Jacobs makes no pretense thatfashion emerges full blown from the head of one solitary genius".

Explaining his clothes, Jacobs hassaid "what I prefer is that even if someone feels hedonistic, they don'tlook it. Curiosity about sex is much more interesting to me than domination.... My clothes are not hot. Never. Never."

What's Been Said

· “It'slong been said that great designers understand what women want to wear beforethey've even seen it…. Jacobs has always known where the wind is blowing next,be it luxe logos, a prim fifties prettiness, or this new somber, romanticglamour. With both his own signature collection and the collection he designsfor Louis Vuitton, this isn't fashion lite. These aren't clothes that make aseamless transition from runway to real life.”

—Mark Holgate Vogue

· “I like romantic allusionsto the past: what the babysitter wore, what the art teacher wore, what I woreduring my experimental days in fashion when I was going to the Mudd Club andwanted to be a New Wave kid or a punk kid but was really a poseur. It's theawkwardness of posing and feeling like I was in, but I never was in.Awkwardness gives me great comfort.”

—Marc Jacobs New York Magazine

Marc Jacobs Fall 2011 Collection