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MARC JACOB

Marc Jacobs is the rebel of the fashion world. His provocative nature and mind-blowing, talent is what has made him a household name and a king in the fashion world. He is a master when working with fabrics, colors and patterns. His incredible zest for fashion has taken him straight to the top. Starting his

• wn label in the 80’s under his own name and this has grown to be his
• wn personal kingdom. Now with diffusion lines, Little Marc Jacobs, and

Marc by Marc Jacobs, and various collections in jewelry, eyewear, and fragrances, Marc Jacobs has spanned the whole of the fashion universe and has conquered every aspect. All hail King Marc Jacobs.

Marc Jacobs was born April 9, 1963 in New York City. Marc's life was completely altered following the death of his father at the age of 7. He would eventually move in with his grandmother and that made all the

• difference. Marc entered the Parsons School of Design and later

landed a position at Perry Ellis. He was creative director for Louis Vuitton from 1997 to 2014. Jacobs started his own labels, Marc Jacobs and Marc by Marc Jacobs, and he continues to be a powerhouse in the fashion world.

Early life

According to Jacobs, his mother responded poorly to his father's death, embarking on a life of power dating and failed marriages that caused serious upheaval in the family .Feeling alienated from his mother and siblings, Jacobs moved in with his paternal grandmother

• n the Upper West Side of Manhattan when he was still a teenager. It

was while living with his grandmother that Jacobs truly felt at home; well-traveled and educated, her love of aesthetically beautiful things

and her appreciation for Jacobs' creative designs helped the grandmother and grandson forge a close relationship. He always lived his life with his grandmother. She was emotionally stable and she was very encouraging to him. The staff of Charivari allowed their young stockboy to design sweaters for the store in between his tasks of folding clothes and dressing mannequins. He stood out among his classmates by winning both the Perry Ellis Gold Thimble Award and Design Student of the Year at graduation in 1984. Just after graduating, at the age of 21, he designed his first collection for the label Sketchbook for Reuben Thomas. In 1987, he became the youngest designer ever to win the Council of Fashion Designers of America Perry Ellis Award for New Fashion Talent. Jacobs took over as the women's-wear designer for Perry Ellis, where he won the prestigious 1992 CFDA prize for Womenswear Designer of the Year (an award he would win again in 1997).

Struggles and Success

In 1997, Jacobs was named creative director of the Louis Vuitton house of luxury goods in Paris. The job was a professional triumph, but it brought new pressures that threw Jacobs's personal life into a

• tailspin. He began a period of heavy drug use, with near-nightly binges
• f cocaine, heroin and alcohol. "It's a cliché," Jacobs later said of his

addiction, "but when I drank I was taller, funnier, smarter, cooler." Friends, including model Naomi Campbell and Vogue editor Anna Wintour, persuaded Jacobs to seek help. He checked into rehab in 1999. After getting clean, Jacobs threw himself back into his work, launching Louis Vuitton's first ready-to-wear line while expanding his

• wn label. His three Marc Jacobs collections—two for adults and one

for children—are sold at dozens of Marc Jacobs boutiques worldwide. He has also licensed his name to perfumes and accessories. The Council of Fashion Designers of America named him the Menswear Designer of the Year in 2002, and Accessories Designer of the Year in 1998/99, 2003 and 2005. In January 2010, Jacobs married boyfriend Lorenzo Martone, a Brazilian PR executive, at a friend's home in St. Barts in the French West Indies. Years after his debut as the "boy wonder" of the fashion world, Jacobs' work continues to turn heads. "For some reason, Marc's show is always the most important place to be seen," one fan said, "the one place where you know all the people who matter will be."

MARC JACOBs SHOW ARCHIVE

FALL 2018 READY TO WEAR

The Park Avenue Armory was pitch-dark save for a narrow spotlit runway down its center. His label’s fortunes are down and the fashion winds are reshaping the New York hierarchy of cool, but Marc Jacobs still knows how to cast a spell. This was a collection of extremes, inspired by 1980s haute couture—names like Montana, Mugler, Ungaro, and Saint Laurent Fashion is in the midst of an ’80s renaissance. The bluster of the period’s silhouettes is aligned to the times we’re living in, with the tax cut for the ultrarich and the rolling back

• f everything from reproductive rights to environmental
• regulations. But Jacobs rarely puts his politics on the
• runway. With their oversize shapes, thick, heavy fabrics,

and resolutely dressed-up sensibility, these clothes couldn’t be any more different than the trends currently dominating the market. Jacobs has never shied from playing the contrarian, and he did so with complete gusto here. As sexy as his confidence is, though, the body- swamping clothes were short on sex appeal, and that can be a deal breaker for a lot of women. He compensated with some stretchy knit pieces and a high- waisted pant and polka-dot blouse with the sleek athleticism of a matador’s costume.

Resort 2017

Walking into a showroom at Marc Jacobs’s headquarters for his Resort mini show (well, not so mini, there were 55 looks), guests were greeted by a mannequin in an MTV sweatshirt, the block M dotted with neon palm trees like it might’ve been on the TV station’s logo 30- something years ago. The top, which reappeared in different versions on the runway, is a descendant of the Coca-Cola wave sweatshirt Jacobs put on his catwalk three Springs ago, and of a piece with the co-opted logos and borrowed branding images seen on other runways lately. Jacobs is not averse to capitalizing on a hot trend, as the patch-strewn denim and camouflage pieces in the new collection also prove In keeping with the 24-hour music channel in its early days theme, Duran Duran played on the sound system, and the models wore their hair tightly crimped, their eyes darkly outlined .The designer picked up the CFDA’s Womenswear Designer of the Year prize yesterday evening, but didn’t linger long at the ceremony. Preparations for this morning’s show went all night.

Paradise was variously printed and embroidered on the backs of jackets, the famous New York in the ’80s

• discotheque. “Just paradise, this fictitious idea.” Real or

virtual, he painted quite a picture: zebra stripes mixed with leopard spots, which clashed with racing checks;

• ut-to-there crinolines were only outclassed by the

exuberant puff sleeves of prairie dresses; and lace dresses came patch-worked with toucans and tropical flowers and martinis. A lot of it was silly, most of it was fun, and he’s going to sell a ton of MTV sweatshirts.

THE STREET STYLE HE WAS INSPIRED BY:

“As a born and bred New Yorker, it was during my time at the High School of Art and Design when I began to see and feel the influence of hip-hop on other music as well as art and style,” he wrote in the show notes. “This collection is my representation of the well-studied dressing up of casual sportswear. There were also backwards baseball caps, bucket hats and knit beanies, except these were exaggerated and pumped up with volume by milliner Stephen Jones. The clothes, offered in a neutral palette of camel, brown, gold, maroon, ginger and red, were surprisingly wearable. The rave princess from Spring/Summer 2017 was forgotten and in its place were comfy tracksuits, shearling-lined plaid jackets, lurex argyle henleys, zip neck sweater dresses and bootcut corduroy trousers. And there were teeny dresses with keyhole details, sensible sweaters with V-necks, crewnecks, turtleneck and zip-ups. The whole collection felt retro, with plenty of thrift store vibes, but entirely devoid of kitsch.

Jacob is a genius at taking street style and incorporate it into high-end fashion for the runway. He does not look to

• thers in the fashion industry for inspiration, but more of the

average person and what they are currently wearing. This is why Jacob’s collection is based off one certain aesthetic for

• ne season, and a completely new aesthetic for the next.

Since trends are always changing, so do Jacob’s runway shows and collections. He is known for making high-end casual wear and not so much evening wear or couture. He makes clothes so that anyone can wear his designs. He uses colors to create a story and is not afraid to use the brightest colors he can find. He likes his designs to capture your attention and stand out among the crowd. He enjoys playing

up his collection with past, present, and future pieces to keep things interesting. To this day, he still includes grunge wear into his designs and shows.

Marc Jacob musical inspiration

Jacobs has taken inspiration from the world of music – from his controversial Perry Ellis ‘Grunge’ show in 1992 to his recent SS17 collection unveiled at New York Fashion Week earlier this month, which hinted at the style codes

• f different musical subcultures. Here, Underworld’s “in a

collection which drew from cyberpunk, 70s glam rockers and J-rock. The inspiration behind Jacobs’ previous collection was similarly eclectic – he referenced the unique fusion of punk, disco and electro which came to characterise New York’s 1980s nightclub With Underworld’s club anthem Born Slippy, itself a byword for nights of endless pleasure-seeking, playing in the background, the models walked out in metallic pastels, miniskirts and chunky heels, ready for their own rave moment in the spotlight. This collection was the pursuit of pleasure writ large, in snakeskin and pearlescent embellishment. Amid a sea of twinkling lightbulbs, the cumulative effect of the show was glittering and hazy, like the morning-after memory of a night spent on the dancefloor.

Spring/Summer 2017

With Underworld’s club anthem Born Slippy, itself a byword for nights of endless pleasure-seeking, playing in the background, the models walked out in metallic pastels, miniskirts and chunky heels, ready for their own rave moment in the spotlight. This collection was the pursuit of pleasure writ large, in snakeskin and pearlescent

• embellishment. Amid a sea of twinkling lightbulbs, the

cumulative effect of the show was glittering and hazy, like the morning-after memory of a night spent on the dancefloor.

swinging shopping bags on the arms of SoHo shoppers, billboards on Bleecker St. A crucial part of how he maintains that year after year is by looking back at previous incarnations of what it means to be It in the city. For Spring 2013, that meant looking to Andy Warhol’s Factory to channel the laissez-faire cool of the Velvet Underground, Edie Sedgwick and their milieu. The modern update of this consisted of stripped-back monochrome stripes, long pleated skirts and silhouette-skimming separates, all soundtracked by the jangling post-punk of The Fall’s 1980s hit Copped It.

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