Marc Jacobs Quotes

• Young girls need to learn that s*xiness isn’t about being naked.

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• Yes, I always remember my dad’s, mom’s and my grandma’s perfumes.

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• We don’t need fashion to survive, we just desire it so much.

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• There is a small world of people who are very interested in contemporary art and a slightly bigger world of people who look at contemporary art. But then there is a much larger world that doesn’t realise how influential art is on things that they actually look at.

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• It’s sometimes said that I’m rebellious and I do things to push people’s buttons, but I just like the challenge.

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• Marc Jacobs is full of creative people and Louis Vuitton is again a name on the door, a name that has existed for many years but I’m a collaborator there and I bring in other people, other artists and I work with a great creative design team.

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• I’m useless at staring at a piece of white paper. But if you put a piece of white paper with a black line on it in front of me, I’ll say no that black line should be red and it should go this way or that way.

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• In terms of having a business, I wanted to let it go beyond what my personal taste is. Basically, I’m in a kilt and a white shirt every day. So, you know, I don’t have a lot of scope, and I’m really picky about what I wear.

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• I’m someone who came to Paris as a teenager, and I dreamed of coming back to Paris as a visitor. I never dreamed of having a job at the biggest luxury house in Paris and, you know, 15 odd years later, I’m still here.

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• I think there is something about luxury – it’s not something people need, but it’s what they want. It really pulls at their heart.

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• I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they’ve been waiting or whether it’s raining or it’s snowing or whatever.

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• I really do believe that art changes the landscape of the world.

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• I mean, I’d love to have a private jet – I know people who fly by private jet all the time… I’ve hitched a ride a few times and it is not overrated at all; it’s a great way to travel!

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• I like to take on the thing I don’t like at the moment. I like to find something that looks wrong or feels off, something that I would never have done in the past, like brocade. And then all of a sudden, if we can make brocade work, then we’ve really done something, because I hate it. And that’s just a reference. I don’t actually hate brocade.

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• I love attention.

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• I have no problem going on record with this and probably have gone on record with this before, there aren’t that many people who I respect. There just aren’t.

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• I empathize with women in their high heels so I’ll be there in my kilt and T-shirt and I’ll walk around all day just to prove that if I can wear the shoes for 36 hours then certainly our customer can wear them.

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• I don’t see myself as being as big of an influence as other people seem to think.

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• I always say that I’m not the director, I’m part of the team.

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• I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect – they are much more interesting.

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Marc Jacobs (41)

Birth:	9th April, 1963
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Fashion Designer

About

Marc Jacobs is the head designer for Marc Jacobs, as well as Marc by Marc Jacobs, a diffusion line, with over 200 retail stores in 80 countries. He was the creative director of the French design house Louis Vuitton from 1997 to 2013. Jacobs was on Time magazine's "2010 Time 100" list of the 100 most influential people in the world, and ranked number 14 on Out magazine's 2012 list of "50 Most Powerful Gay Men and Women in America".

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