Marc Jacobs Shares Challenges to His Career
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Marc Jacobs is a prominent American native fashion designer who spent most of his life living in New York. Acquiring his fashion degree at the Parsons School of Design lead him a promising career designing for Perry Ellis. Jacobs was soon dismissed from the fashion firm though after he designed a “grunge” collection that was obviously disliked by the management. Despite that, he continued designing his own collection and was soon able to launch the Marc Jacobs International Company L.P. Jacob’s robust talent eventually led him to become artistic director for Louis Vuitton, spearheading collaborations with different designers for mainly for handbags for a decade now.
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Marc Jacobs, now a premier designer and a high fashion empire, shared the challenges of working up and creating his own label as well as designing for Louis Vuitton on May 19, 2008 with students at the Central Saint Martins school in London.
Here are things he had to say:
On designing his first ready to wear collection as the newly appointed creative director of Louis Vuitton in 1997:
“This Vuitton thing was scary … Suddenly you’re on the Paris stage, with this huge name. I felt so paralyzed by it. That first collection was a no-win situation. I thought, if I give them what they expect, they’ll be disappointed because they wanted to be surprised. If I give them a surprise, they’ll be disappointed because it wasn’t what they were expecting.”
On the difficulties of getting his Spring 2001 Stephen Sprouse monogram collection for Louis Vuitton produced:
“I don’t understand corporate people — I always say the design team’s on the second floor and the corporate people are on the fifth floor, and it might as well be the distance between here and Mars … The press reaction to all that graffiti was so amazing … [but] they bitched and moaned, [saying] ‘we’re not going to do it’. I just couldn’t believe it … at the time, that’s how narrow-minded they were … [but] $300 million later, they think it’s a good idea!”
On hiring Tom Ford to design Perry Ellis when Jacobs headed the label:
“Tom was a different person then … Tom was this very, very sort of haughty, tasteful person, very Waspy … or that’s what he was affecting at that moment. I thought it would be great to do a jean line with someone who has a very sophisticated mind.”
On what fashion really is about:
“When I trust my own whims, and the whims of people I trust, I feel that has credibility … Belief is embedded in everything you do — so it doesn’t actually matter whether people like it. I guess what we do, as a team, is a daily, weekly, monthly re-evaluation of whims.”
The quote that will make you say the “word”:
“I can’t bear it when designers go on about inspiration … If a girl wants to wear it and feels good then who cares?”
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