29 Facts About Marc Jacobs

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Marc Jacobs was born on April 9,1963 and is an American fashion designer.

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Marc Jacobs was the creative director of the French design house Louis Vuitton from 1997 to 2014.

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Marc Jacobs married his longtime partner Charly Defrancesco on April 6,2019.

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Marc Jacobs was born to a non-observant Jewish family in New York City.

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Marc Jacobs grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey and attended Teaneck High School.

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Marc Jacobs attended the High School of Art and Design and studied at Parsons School of Design in New York.

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Marc Jacobs won the Women's Designer of the Year award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America in 1993.

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At age 15, Marc Jacobs worked as a stockboy at Charivari, a now-defunct avant-garde clothing boutique in New York City.

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Marc Jacobs designed his first collection for Reuben Thomas, Inc.

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In 1994, Marc Jacobs produced his first full collection of menswear.

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In 1997, Marc Jacobs was appointed Louis Vuitton's creative director, where he created the company's first ready-to-wear clothing line.

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Marc Jacobs collaborated with many popular artists for his Louis Vuitton collections, including Stephen Sprouse, Takashi Murakami, Richard Prince, and Kanye West.

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In 2006, Marc Jacobs started a new line of body-splash fragrances in ten-ounce bottles which were distributed by Coty.

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In 2007, Marc Jacobs released his popular Daisy collection of perfumes.

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In February 2008, Marc Jacobs was accused of plagiarizing a scarf design created in the 1950s by Swedish designer Gosta Olofsson.

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Marc Jacobs settled the matter by offering monetary compensation to Olofsson's son.

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

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

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

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The jury board and Marc Jacobs appointed the winner of 2011 during the DfT award show.

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Marc Jacobs made his feature film acting debut in Disconnect, directed by Henry-Alex Rubin and starring Jason Bateman, Paula Patton, Alexander Skarsgard and Andrea Riseborough.

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In February 2013, Marc Jacobs was named the new creative director for Diet Coke.

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In honor of the brand's 30th anniversary, Marc Jacobs spent a year giving the brand a "stylish and light-hearted" makeover.

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In March 2013, the New York Daily News revealed that the "faux fur" used in many Marc Jacobs garments is actually the fur from raccoon dogs from China.

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In September 2020, Marc Jacobs released Heaven, a polysexual line aimed at a younger audience while blurring gender boundaries.

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Guy Trebay, a critic for The New York Times, in response to Oscar de la Renta's comment that a coat designed by Marc Jacobs closely resembled one that de la Renta had designed thirty years earlier, wrote that "unlike the many brand-name designers who promote the illusion that their output results from a single prodigious creativity, Mr Marc Jacobs makes no pretense that fashion emerges full blown from the head of one solitary genius".

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The Marc Jacobs brand has fine arts driven and avant-garde advertisement campaigns, often featuring a group of cultural icons and artists, in lieu of traditional fashion models in minimally staged settings and photographed by high-profile photographers.

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In 2015, Marc Jacobs launched a popular lifestyle campaign that featured artists, celebrities, and cultural icons such as Sofia Coppola, Cher, Willow Smith, Winona Ryder, Daisy Lowe, and Anthony Kiedis.

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Marc Jacobs has an ongoing project entitled "Protect The Skin You're In", which has celebrities pose nude, with their breasts and frontal area covered, for T-shirts to raise awareness about melanoma; all sales benefit research at the NYU Langone Medical Center.