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.
Is the secret to Anna Wintour’s success that power is most effective when it is a caricature?
telegraph.co.ukAnna Wintour will be: thousands of would-be Wintours, parsing the pages to see how she did it.“It” being the longest-ever continuing reign at the very top of the fashion tree.
Fashion being famous for its crash and burn moments – from Diana Vreeland’s unceremonious firing from Vogue in 1971 to Saint Laurent’s agonising, slow-mo decline, from John Galliano’s monumental fall from grace to Marc Jacobs’s exit from Louis Vuitton – Wintour’s longevity and seemingly still-expanding hegemony is all the more fascinating.
Aged 72, she has seen off all her fellow super-editors at Conde Nast including Tina Brown, Vanity Fair’s Graydon Carter and James Truman, the young gun once brought into the company, so everyone thought, to replace her.There’s almost 350 pages here, but the reader is left wondering whether the answer is as simple as Wintour having recognised early on that power is often most effective when it’s a caricature of itself, and that cultivating a Cruella de Vil persona would do her no harm at all.Having the parents she did helped.
Her American mother, Nonie Wintour, from an affluent, East Coast Quaker family, gave Anna her social connections and a small family legacy that meant she could afford to take a break from jobs when pickings were thin.
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