Marc Jacobs

Marc Jacobs is one of the most successful designers. He was born in 1963 in the city of New York. As a child Marc Jacobs worked as a stock boy at Charivari, a New York City boutique, making and designing hand knitted sweaters for the store. He attended the high and prestigious High School of Art and Design followed by attendance at the Parsons School of Design, during his time at Parsons, Marc Jacobs won a couple of major awards as his true talents began to show through. His awards included the Chester Weinburg Gold Thimble, the Perry Ellis Gold Thimble and a Design student of the Year award.

Marc Jacobs was approached by Robert Duffy to design for Ruben Thomas Inc Sketchbook label. He soon joined Perry Ellis where he was part of a team in charge of women’s fashion. By 1997, the two were already immersed in many projects and were soon connected with Louis Vuitton where they started designing and making handbags. It was in this very same year that the initial Marc Jacobs store opened in New York. Marc Jacobs now had his own menswear line and was the creative director for the French house Louis Vuitton and with major success he launched his first ready to wear line. Marc Jacobs continues to work as the creative director for Louis Vuitton.

Marc Jacobs is a well known figure in the New York City celebrity scene. The audience for his fashion shows usually includes celebrities like Kim Gordon and Vincent Gallo. Most of his collections make references to the fashions of past decades from the forties to the eighties. Disputing the claim by the designer Oscar de la Renta that Jacobs is a mere copyist, the New York Times Critic Guy Trebay has written "unlike the many brand-name designers who promote the illusion that their output results from a single prodigious creativity, Mr Jacobs makes no pretence that fashion emerges full blown from the head of one solitary genius". 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."

Marc Jacobs has earned his way to a very successful fashion career. Today Marc Jacobs has quadrupled his brand with his world famous collection Marc Jacobs, as well as his less expensive line, Marc by Marc Jacobs. He has opened 160 stores in 19 countries worldwide. Marc Jacobs has also developed his brand of intriguing perfume, with the bottle always as beautiful as the scent. The latest perfume from Marc Jacobs in Lola a “confident and slightly vampy older sister” with notes of pink peppercorn, pear d’anjou, ruby red grapefruit, fuchsia peony, rose, geranium, vanilla, tonka bean and creamy musk. The heart is, like Marc Jacob’s Daisy, mostly vague flowers, but they’re not as fresh and clean as Daisy’s vague flowers, and the dry down is warmer, deeper, muskier, sweeter, more vanilla is present in the scent. Marc Jacobs is a talented man and a gifted designer.

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