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.
Barbara Windsor may not have seemed like a style icon - but she wielded a secret influence on fashion
telegraph.co.ukA post shared by Alasdair McLellan (@alasdairmclellan)Babs however loved her Vuitton tweed suit. It was her pride and joy, along with her third husband Scott Mitchell.
And this is where I like to think she exerted a powerful if secret influence over one of the most memorable fashion shows of all time.Cast your mind back to October 2007 and the mighty Louis Vuitton show, back when it was designed by Marc Jacobs – and, for that season only, the artist Richard Prince.
Picture also the po-faced surroundings of the Louvre, where the show opened with a series of models – including Naomi Campbell, Eva Herzigova and Natalia Vodianova – dressed in see-through nurse uniforms. (Prophetically, each model also wore a black lace face mask adorned with.
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