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.
Hunter Schafer Had Another Perfect Prada Moment, This Time From 2013
glamour.com's stylist Dara Allen emerged on Miu Miu’s autumn/winter 2024 catwalk. The stylist—who first came up through Tumblr before modeling for Marc Jacobs and Helmut Lang, and was hired as fashion director at Mel Ottenberg’s Interview magazine—is, at least in part, the reason why Schafer is considered one of the best-dressed women in the world.Consider the feathered bralette that Schafer wore to the , taken from Ludovic de Saint Sernin’s erstwhile tenure at Ann Demeulemeester; the she wore to the London premiere of The Hunger Games, which had been plucked from Prada’s spring/summer 2009 archive; and the paint-encrusted bodycon she wore to the film’s Berlin debut, pulled from Daniel Roseberry’s spring/summer 2023 couture proposal at Schiaparelli.
Schafer was also the first person to wear John Galliano’s latest Maison Margiela Artisanal collection “in the wild” back in February.Hunter Schafer wearing Prada at Vanities: A Night for Young Hollywood.All this is evidence of Allen’s messianic relationship with—and understanding of—fashion with a capital “F.” Just last night, the stylist dressed Schafer in a Japonisme skirt-suit from Prada’s spring/summer 2013 collection at a pre-Oscars celebration in Los Angeles, entitled Vanities: A Night for Young Hollywood.
She, once again, looked pretty much perfect.“I love Prada because I think at its core, it channels a sort of tender awkward beauty, which I feel very aligned with,” Hunter Schafer told Vogue’s Alice Newbold towards the end of 2023. “Prada has always seemed beyond the framework of trends and whatnot, it’s about the art”.This article first appeared on By signing up you agree to our (including the ), our and to receive marketing and account-related emails from Glamour.
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