American fashion designer Marc Jacobs was born in New York, New York, on April 9, 1963. He is well-known for his fashion interpretations of pop culture trends, most notably his “grunge” collection, which is credited with establishing the grunge aesthetic of the 1990s.
His parents worked as agents for the William Morris talent agency, and Jacobs grew up in New York City with his brother and sister.
Fashion designer Marc Jacobs’s father passed away when he was seven years old. After that, his mother got married again and got divorced multiple times, which meant the family had to move. After teaching fashion designer Marc Jacobs how to knit as a child, his paternal grandmother fostered his developing interest in fashion design when he moved and lived with her on Manhattan’s Upper West Side as a teenager. Fashion designer Marc met fashion designer Perry Ellis, who would later become his mentor, when he was fifteen years old, working at the high-end clothing store Charivari and enrolled at the High School of Art and Design.
Fashion designer Marc Jacobs enrolled in Parsons School of Design (now Parsons The New School for Design) following his high school graduation in 1981. Fashion designer Marc received some of the greatest accolades from the school for his graduation project, which was a line of giant hand-knit sweaters. Charivari later purchased the collection from Fashion designer Marc. Executive Vice President Barbara Weiser helped sell the line as Marc and Barbara, and it was well received.
After Fashion designer Marc Jacobs was employed in 1984 by Reuben Thomas, Inc., a garment manufacturer, Fashion designer Marc created the Sketchbook label (1984–85). He founded Jacobs Duffy Designs Inc. that same year alongside Robert Duffy, a corporate leader. After that, Fashion designer Marc Jacobs obtained the funding necessary to create his label from 1986 to 1988, making him the youngest designer.
After being appointed vice president of women’s design at Perry Ellis in 1988, Fashion designer Marc Jacobs became well-known throughout the world for his groundbreaking “grunge” collection, which he unveiled in 1992. In order to create a messy and unique image, the collection included unconventional pairings, such as flowery girlish skirts with combat boots, which were inspired by the burgeoning grunge music scene. Waifish models, such as Kate Moss, who was the opposite of the glitzy and voluptuous models that were popular at the time, displayed the designs. Women’s Wear Daily dubbed Jacobs the “guru of grunge,” and the colossal collection, which helped establish the grunge style of the 1990s, earned her the 1992 CFDA Womenswear Designer of the Year award. However, Fashion designer Marc Jacobs’ position with Perry Ellis was quickly terminated, a move that many industry experts believe to him.
In 1993, Fashion designer Marc Jacobs Duffy Designs Inc. established Marc Jacobs International Company, L.P., a design and licensing firm. The following year, the company relaunched Jacobs’s flagship brand, which included a menswear collection. After opening the first of Fashion designer Marc s’ many stores in 1997, Jacobs agreed to work as creative director for Louis Vuitton in return for the financial support of his fashion firm. Fashion designer Marc brought the brand back to life by creating its first ready-to-wear clothes line and growing its accessory collection.
Early in the twenty-first century, Fashion designer Marc Jacobs introduced a more reasonably priced sportswear line called Marc by Marc Jacobs (2001) and worldwide developed his distinctive brand. Additionally, Fashion designer Marc worked with designers like Stephen Sprouse, with whom he introduced the instantly popular Louis Vuitton Speedy graffiti handbag (2001), which appeared to have been spray-painted with the brand’s name.
Fashion designer Marc collaborated with Japanese visual artist Takashi Murakami to create the highly regarded Louis Vuitton Eye Love Monogram series in 2003. This collection substituted a multicolored palette with pop-art elements, such as cartoon eyes, for the brand’s conventional beige-and-brown monogrammed canvas. Fashion designer Marc Jacobs introduced the Little Marc Jacobs children’s clothing line in 2005.
Fashion designer Marc left his position as Louis Vuitton’s creative director in 2013 to focus on his collection. He introduced Marc Jacobs Beauty, a makeup line, that same year. But after that, his fashion empire faltered. Fashion designer Marc Jacobs closed the well-known Marc by Marc Jacobs in 2015, although his signature range now includes more affordable clothing. Furthermore, several of his retail locations were shut down due to layoffs and changes in higher management.
“What I like is that even if someone feels hedonistic, they do not seem it,” Fashion designer Marc Jacobs explained while discussing his wardrobe. I find sex curiosity far more fascinating than dominance. I do not have any heated garments. Never, never. Fashion designer Marc usually invites celebrities like Vincent Gallo and Kim Gordon to his fashion exhibitions. “Unlike the many brand-name designers who promote the illusion that their output results from a single prodigious creativity, Marc Jacobs makes no pretense that fashion emerges full-blown from the head of one solitary creator,” wrote Guy Trebay, a critic for The New York Times, in response to Oscar de la Renta’s remark that a coat designed by Jacobs closely resembled one that de la Renta had designed thirty years earlier. Instead of using conventional fashion models in minimally prepared environments with high-profile photographers, Fashion designer Marc Jacobs’s advertising campaigns are fine arts-driven and avant-garde, frequently showcasing a collection of cultural icons and artists. A well-known lifestyle ad, including artists, celebrities, and cultural icons like Sofia Coppola, Cher, Willow Smith, Winona Ryder, Daisy Lowe, and Anthony Kiedis, was introduced by Jacobs in 2015.
For Marc Jacobs’s Spring 2016 ad campaign, Jacobs used this strategy once more, characterizing the idea as a fashion narrative that embodies a “series of related events; a visual narrative.” It is a private journal of individuals who have inspired me and who still help me see and think in new ways. The range of people captured on camera.
Fashion designer Marc further added that “the people featured in our campaign personify this collection of fashion through their individuality. Collectively, they embody and celebrate the spirit and beauty of equality.” The New York Observer called it “the best campaign of the Spring 2016 season,” and that “the designer [Marc Jacobs] has handpicked a star-studded cast of his family members [people who are key to the Marc Jacobs brand to model the Americana gear from this collection,” thus making the collection notable. The Marc Jacobs Spring 2016 advertising campaign featured Lana Wachowski, Sandra Bernhard, Bette Midler, Juliette Lewis, Christina Ricci, Sky Ferreira, Bella Hadid, Emily Ratajkowski, Vincent Michaud, Oli Burslem, Milk, and several runway models.
To raise awareness about melanoma, Marc Jacobs has an ongoing project called “Protect The Skin You Are In,” wherein celebrities appear nude for T-shirts, covering their breasts and frontal area. All proceeds from the sale of these shirts go to research at NYU Langone Medical Center. Miley Cyrus, Eva Mendes, Kate Upton, Victoria Beckham, Heidi Klum, Hilary Swank, Cara Delevingne, Debbie McGee, and Naomi Campbell are some of the famous people who have posed.
In a flash mob at a Chipotle restaurant on April 4, 2018, Fashion designer Marc Jacobs proposed to Charly Defrancesco, his then-boyfriend. To the song “Kiss” by Prince, the flash mob performed a choreography. On April 6, 2019, they were married in New York City.
In April 2019, the couple bought a house in Rye, New York. The County of Westchester.
