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.
Louis Vuitton creates clothes for the modern elite, closing one of the most extraordinary fashion months in years
telegraph.co.ukThe tall black pilgrim hat in Gucci’s show in Milan - seems so long ago - was always too striking an apparition to remain an isolated sighting.
Sure enough there was some uncannily similar millinery in the backdrop at Louis Vuitton, the closing show of one of the most extraordinary fashion months I can remember.
It’s not just the escalating responses to Corona that made each hour feel part of a rolling news bulletins, but the shows themselves: they’ve been exceptionally good.
Even if the clothes end up not being delivered to stores next winter because of quarantined factories in China and Italy, the production values of some shows - Gucci, Balenciaga, Marc Jacobs, Moschino and now Vuitton inter alia -have been outstanding.
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