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Fashion Designer Marc Jacobs

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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

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Alexander McQueen by Fashion Wire Press

Lee Alexander McQueen,(17 March 1969 – 11 February 2010) was a British fashiondesigner and couturier best known for hisin-depth knowledge of bespoke British tailoring,his tendency to juxtapose strength with fragility in his collections, as wellas the emotional power and raw energy of his provocative fashion shows.Heis also known for having worked as chief designer at Givenchyfrom 1996 to 2001 and for founding his own label under the name Alexander McQueen.Hisachievements in fashion earned him four British Designer of the Year awards(1996, 1997, 2001 and 2003), as well as the CFDA'sInternational Designer of the Year award in 2003.

EarlyLife And Education

Born on 17 March 1969 in Lewisham, London, to Scottish taxi driverRonaldand social scienceteacher Joyce, McQueen was the youngest of six children. He grew up in a council flatin a tower block in Stratford.He attended Carpenters Road Primary School. He started making dresses for histhree sisters at a young age and announced his intention to become a fashiondesigner.

McQueen attended Rokeby Schooland left aged 16 in 1984 with one O-level in art, going on to serve an apprenticeship with Savile Rowtailors Anderson & Sheppard, before joining Gieves & Hawkesand, later, the theatrical costumiers Angels and Bermans.^[10]The skills he learned as an apprentice on Savile Row helped earn him areputation in the fashion world as an expert in creating an impeccably tailoredlook.

Personal life

McQueen was openly gay and saidhe realized his sexual orientation when veryyoung. He told his family when he was 18 and, after a rocky period, theyaccepted his sexuality. He described comingout at a young age by saying, "I was sure of myself and mysexuality and I've got nothing to hide. I went straight from my mother's wombonto the gay parade".

In the summer of 2000,McQueen had a marriage ceremony with his partner George Forsyth, a documentaryfilmmaker, on a yacht in Ibiza. The marriage was not official, as same-sex marriage in Spain wasnot legal then. The relationship ended a year later and McQueen and Forsythmaintained a close friendship.

McQueen received press attention after the May2007 suicideof international style icon Isabella Blow. Rumours werepublished that there was a rift between McQueen and Blow at the time of herdeath, focusing on McQueen's under-appreciation of Blow.^[29]In response to these rumours, McQueen told an interviewer:

“It's so much bollocks.These people just don't know what they're talking about. They don't know me.They don't know my relationship with Isabella. It's complete bullshit. Peoplecan talk; you can ask her sisters ... That part of the industry, they shouldstay away from my life, or mine and Isabella's life. What I had with Isabellawas completely dissociated from fashion, beyond fashion.”

McQueen was an accomplished scubadiver and used his passion as a source of inspiration in hisdesigns, including spring 2010's "Plato's Atlantis." Much of hisdiving was done around the Maldives.

Career

While on Savile Row,McQueen's clients included MikhailGorbachev and Prince Charles. At the age of20 he spent a period of time working for Koji Tatsunobefore travelling to Milan,Italy and working for Romeo Gigli.

McQueen returned to Londonin 1994 and applied to Central Saint MartinsCollege of Art and Design, to work as a pattern cutter tutor.Because of the strength of his portfolio he was persuaded by the Head of theMasters course to enroll in the course as a student. He received his mastersdegree in fashion design and hisgraduation collection was bought in its entirety by influential fashion stylistIsabellaBlow, who was said to have persuaded McQueen to become known asAlexander (his middle name) when he subsequently launched his fashion career. Icelandicsinger Björksought McQueen's work for the cover of her album Homogenicin 1997. McQueen also directed the musicvideo for her song "AlarmCall" from the same album.

McQueen's early runway collections developedhis reputation for controversy and shock tactics (earning the title "l'enfant terrible" and"the hooligan of English fashion"), with trousers aptly named "bumsters"and a collection entitled "Highland Rape". In 2004, journalistCaroline Evans also wrote of McQueen's "theatrical staging ofcruelty," in 032c magazine, referring to hisdark and tortured renderings of Scottish History. McQueen was known for hislavish, unconventional runway shows: a recreation of a shipwreck for his spring2003 collection; spring 2005's human chess game; and his fall 2006 show"Widows of Culloden," which featured a life-sized hologram ofsupermodel Kate Moss dressed in yards of rippling fabric.

McQueen's"bumsters" spawned a trend in low rise jeans; on their debut theyattracted many comments and debate. Michael Oliveira-Salac, the director ofBlow PR and a friend of McQueen's said that "The bumster for me is whatdefined McQueen." McQueen also became known for using skulls in hisdesigns. A scarf bearing the motif became a celebrity must-have and was copiedaround the world.

McQueen has been credited with bringing dramaand extravagance to the catwalk. He used new technology and innovation to add adifferent twist to his shows and often shocked and surprised audiences. Thesilhouettes that he created have been credited for adding a sense of fantasyand rebellion to fashion. McQueen became one of the first designers to useIndian models in London.

McQueen also designed a range of dresses underthe name of "manta", priced at around £2800. The line,named after the manta ray, was inspired by aholiday McQueen took in the Maldives in 2009. The designs havebeen worn by various models and celebrities, including Lily Cole.

Accomplishments

Some of McQueen's accomplishmentsincluded being one of the youngest designers to achieve the title "British Designer of the Year",which he won four times between 1996 and 2003;he was also awardedthe CBEand named International Designer of the Year by the Council of FashionDesigners in 2003. December 2000 saw a new partnership for McQueen,with the GucciGroup acquiring 51% of his company and McQueen serving as Creative Director. Plansfor expansion included the opening of stores in London, Milan and New York, andthe launch of his perfumes Kingdom and, most recently, My Queen. In 2005,McQueen collaborated with Puma to create a special lineof trainers for the shoe brand. In 2006 he launched McQ, a younger, morerenegade lower priced line for men and women.

McQueen became the firstdesigner to participate in MAC's promotion of cosmeticreleases created by fashion designers. The collection, McQueen, was released on11 October 2007 and reflected the looks used on the Autumn/Winter McQueencatwalk. The inspiration for the collection was the ElizabethTaylor movie Cleopatra, and thus themodels sported intense blue, green, and teal eyes with strong black linerextended Egyptian-style. McQueen handpicked the makeup.

Company

By the end of 2007,Alexander McQueen had boutiques in London, New York, Los Angeles, Milan and Las Vegas. Celebrity patrons,including Nicole Kidman, PenélopeCruz, Sarah Jessica Parker and Rihanna,J-Pop Queens such as Ayumi Hamasaki, NamieAmuro, and Koda Kumi have frequently beenspotted wearing Alexander McQueen clothing to events. Björk,AyumiHamasaki and Lady Gaga have oftenincorporated Alexander McQueen pieces in their music videos. By wearing hisdesigns, celebrities such as the above mentioned have further increased thenotability of the McQueen brand.

DeathAnd Memorial

McQueen's death was announced on theafternoon of 11 February 2010. He was found that morning by his housekeeper athis home on Green Street, London W1, hanged. Paramedicswere called and they pronounced him dead at the scene.

McQueen died days before LondonFashion Week, though he was not scheduled to show, and nine days after the death of his mother, Joyce, 75, fromcancer. David LaChapelle, a friend of the designer said that McQueen "was doinga lot of drugs and was very unhappy" at the time of his death.

McQueen left a note saying"Look after my dogs, sorry, I love you, Lee." The MetropolitanPolice stated that the death was notsuspicious, but did not confirm that the death was a suicide.

On 17 February 2010, Westminster Coroner'sCourt was told that a post-mortem examination found that McQueen's death was due to asphyxiationand hanging. Theinquest was adjourned until 28 April 2010, where McQueen's death was officiallyrecorded as suicide. McQueen, who had been diagnosed with mixed anxiety anddepressive disorder took an overdose prior to hanging himself. He had takendrug overdoses in May and July 2009. Prior to hanging himself with his"favourite brown belt", the inquest recorded that he had slashed hiswrists with a ceremonial dagger and a meat cleaver. Coroner Dr Paul Knapmanreported finding "a significant level of cocaine, sleeping pills, andtranquilisers in the blood samples taken after the designer's death."

“On behalf of Lee McQueen's family,Alexander McQueen today announces the tragic news that Lee McQueen, the founderand designer of the Alexander McQueen brand, has been found dead at his home.At this stage it is inappropriate to comment on this tragic news beyond sayingthat we are devastated and are sharing a sense of shock and grief with Lee'sfamily.

Lee's family has asked for privacyin order to come to terms with this terrible news and we hope the media willrespect this.”

---Alexander McQueen Office,Official Website, 11 February 2010---

Tributes

On 16 February 2010, pop musician Lady Gagaperformed an acoustic, jazz rendition of her hit single Telephone and segued into Dance In The Darkat the 2010 Brit Awards. During the performance, Gaga honored McQueen, saying,"this is for Alexander McQueen." She also commemorated McQueen afteraccepting her award for Best International Artist, Best International Femaleand Best International Album.

Gaga dedicated a song on the specialedition of her third album, Born This Way,to him entitled "Fashion of His Love".

Bjork sang her rendition of Gloomy Sundayat St. Paul's Cathedral in London. She wore an outfit created by McQueen wheremany mourners came to gather.

Various other musicians, who werefriends and collaborators with McQueen, commentated on his death, including Kanye West,Courtney Love, and Katy Perry.

In March 2010, a visual tribute to McQueen andhis "manta" design was organised featuring Naomi Campbell,Kate Mossand Annabelle Neilson, among others.

TheMetropolitan Museum of Art in NewYork City hosted a posthumous exhibition of McQueen's work in 2011 titled SavageBeauty. Despite being open for only threemonths, it was one of the most popular exhibitions in the museum's history. Theexhibition was so successful that Alexander McQueen fans and industryprofessionals worldwide began rallying at Change.org to "Please MakeAlexander McQueen's Savage Beauty a Traveling Exhibition" to bring honorto McQueen and see his vision become a reality: to share his work with theentire world.

TheFinal Show

Right before Alexander McQueen'sdeath he had an eighty percent unfinished autumn/winter collection, 16 pieces,presented during Paris Fashion Week on March 8th 2010, to a select handful offashion editors in a mirrored, gilded salon at the 18th-century Hôtel deClermont-Tonnerre.

Fashion editors picked his finaldesigns. Editors said the show was hard to watch because it showed how McQueenwas obsessed with the afterlife. The clothes had a medieval and religious look.Basic colours that were repetitively used were red, gold and silvers withdetailed embroidery. His models were accessorized to show his love for theatricalimagery. "Each piece is unique, as was he," McQueen's fashion housesaid in a statement that was released with the collection.

After company owner Gucci confirmedthat the brand would continue, McQueen's long-term assistant Sarah Burtonwas named as the new creative director of Alexander McQueen in May 2010. InSeptember 2010, Burton presented her first womenswear collection in Paris.

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