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.
Christy Turlington Burns's Wants You to Listen to Her Best Career Advice
glamour.com, the maternal healthcare nonprofit organization she founded in 2010—and which she describes as “very much like my third child”—has reached an age that in many cultures marks the cusp of adulthood, the beginning of a life being built separate to their parents.
It’s a milestone weighing heavily on Turlington Burns’s mind. “It's one thing to start a thing but another to stick with it, given how hard it is,” she says. “To know that I've been a part of it for as long as I have feels incredibly rewarding.”She continues, “I've always said there's no exit strategy, and yet there has to be at some point in terms of making space for others to bring their perspectives.
I'm in that place of wanting to move from founder-led to founder-inspired or founder-created.”Turlington Burns is speaking to me from her home in New York that she shares with her husband, filmmaker Ed Burns, and her two children, amid a schedule packed with work Zoom meetings late into the day. “Our daughter will sometimes be like, are you going to take a break?” she quips.This day-to-day grind of running a nonprofit and campaigning for better maternal care around the world feels like a lifetime away from Turlington Burns’s first act.
Those of us who grew up in the ‘80s and ’90s remember Turlington as the face of fashion, not activism. As part of the original supermodel set that included Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, Claudia Schiffer, and Linda Evangelista, you’d have been hard-pressed to find a luxury advertising campaign that didn’t feature her.
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