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.
Model Leomie Anderson: 'I had enough of being mistreated - black girls still face the same fights I did'
telegraph.co.ukmagazine covers. But having a voice? Using their fame for the greater good? That’s a new phenomenon, and there’s no one who sums up the modern way to be a model - and more - better than Leomie Anderson.Scouted as she walked home from school in Wimbledon when she was 14, Leomie quickly rose to be one of the biggest British models of the early 2010s after making her debut on the Marc Jacobs catwalk aged 17.
Hailed as the new name to know, she worked with brands including Ralph Lauren, Giorgio Armani and Vivienne Westwood. But behind the scenes, she quickly realised the hidden challenges which came with being a model of colour.‘One of the first things that my mum said to me when I started was, “These people are not your friends”,’ Leomie, now.
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