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Marc Jacobs (born April 9, 1963) is an American fashion designer. He is the head designer for his own fashion label, Marc Jacobs, and formerly Marc by Marc Jacobs, a diffusion line, which was produced for approximately 15 years having been discontinued after the 2015 fall/winter collection. At one point there were over 200 retail stores in 80 countries.

He was the creative director of the French design house Louis Vuitton from 1997 to 2014. Jacobs was on Time magazine's "2010 Time 100" list of the 100 most influential people in the world, and was #14 on Out magazine's 2012 list of "50 Most Powerful Gay Men and Women in America". He got married on 7 April 2019, to his long time boyfriend Charly Defrancesco.

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A fashionable history of platform shoes

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Marc Jacobs can wear, and it seems like every Instagrammer has their own pair. View this post on InstagramHowever, the storied history of platforms stretches back a whole lot longer than the 1970s.

Platform shoes – meaning a raised sole – have been around for centuries…One of the earlier iterations of platforms were pattens – wooden overshoes worn in the Middle Ages fastened with leather straps.

The elevated soles of pattens make them similar to the platforms of today, but its function was predominantly practical: to lift its wearer’s feet off the muddy ground.

This meant they were largely for the upper classes – as seen in Belgian painter Jan van Eyck’s Portrait Of Giovanni Arnolfini And His Wife.

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