Marc Jacobs

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Marc Jacobs is a Fashion designer born in 1963 with New York in an easy medium, it was raised by his/her paternal grandmother adored in her apartment of the Upper West Side. Later, in spite of many stays in crested hotels of Downtown, this apartment will remain its official residence until it sells it, after its installation in Paris.

Initiated by her grandmother with the seam and knitting, Marc Jacobs finds her way very young and was off registered with the High School Art and Design. During its years of college, it obtains an use of storekeeper at Chirivari which at the time seems shop of avant-gardes to have revealed certain Belgian creators like Margiela or Demeulemeester at the US market. He then learns how to observe people and to appreciate the products what reinforces its desire to continue a career of designer. Under the councils of Perry Ellis, met one day by chance, it is registered in Parsons School Design off. Four years later, it presents its final project: a collection of hand made pullovers oversize, decorated with “smiley” pink sharp. A businessman is in the room, Robert Duffy. Twenty years later, their collaboration always lasts…

Jacobs and Duffy immediately try to launch out together, but for lack of serious financial partner, the majority of their tests fail. However they start to have a reputation in the medium of the purchasers new yorkais and the coast of the creator does nothing but increase. In 1988, Marc Jacobs is placed at the orders of the creation of Perry Ellis, Duffy accepts the position of president. The collaboration of the two men with the house is short and is part from now on of the legends of the mode. Effect after a collection grunge, tendency to which Jacobs is very sensitive, it creates the scandal and is laid off. This reference is one of most famous of the history of the mode. It drew aside Perry Ellis of the female clothes industry and returned Jacobs and Duffy in the shade. But the legend was born and the large priestesses of the mode that it is in NewYork Times with the WWD or at Vogue were already conquered. This reference will be worth Womenswear Designer off to him the Year Arward of the CFDA.

The day from her thirty and one years, in 1994, Marc Jacobs makes her come-back with a spectacular collection, which it describes with the WWD like “a little funk, a little trash and a little knack”. It continues from now on to combine these three characteristics while exploring topics retro ave a particular affinity for the Seventies.

After a few years of wandering, the career of Marc Jacobs is today with her apogee. Proof in is: its last procession, fascinating places at the old arms manufacture of New York was open in large pump by the Brass band of PEN Station and the celebrities as the writers mode are street there.

Today in addition to its collections éponymes Marc Jacobs , Marc by Marc Jacobs like Stinky Rat and Little Marc for the baby and the child, he is also artistic director of the whole of the collections Louis Vuitton.

External bonds

official site
marc--jacobs.com
Marc Jacobs - Biography

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