Quotes About Marc Jacobs

#1. I actually started my career interning at Perry Ellis and got to work with Marc Jacobs.

Nina Garcia

#2. When I dress up for events, I prefer Marc Jacobs and Dior. But I dream about wearing Chanel one day.

Lucy Hale

#3. I love anything vintage. And I love Marc Jacobs and shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti.

Meagan Good

#4. Calvin Klein and Donna Karan were the big American names at that point in time, Helmut [Lung] was the cool kid on the block and you had Marc Jacobs and John Galliano who starting the revival of the old fashion houses.

Roopal Patel

#5. In New York, everybody looks great and is well dressed, but seeing someone in Ohio wearing Marc Jacobs is like spotting an owl in Central Park. Rare.

Isabel Gillies

#6. Designer Marc Jacobs ended his sixteen-year tenure at Louis Vuitton with a spring 2014 collection that celebrated fashion in its purest and least complicated form - as majestic, superficial beauty.

Robin Givhan

#7. While at Parsons, I interned at Marc Jacobs, which was great. When I graduated, I went to work at J. Crew; that was also really great.

Chris Benz

#8. I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'

Kanye West

#9. I wore the Marc Jacobs dress, so I love Marc Jacobs. He has a vintage flair. But I've always worn a lot of vintage stuff, so it hasn't been a lot of designers. If I see something that I like, I just buy it.

Elle Fanning

#10. I remember walking the dog one day, I saw a car full of teenage girls, and one of them rolled down the window and yelled, 'Marc Jacobs!' in a French accent.

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#11. 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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#12. I interned with Marc Jacobs in college, then worked at J. Crew. I learned a lot about how to fit clothes and what kinds of things sell and why.

Chris Benz

#13. You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to expect a passel of grandkids.

Ayelet Waldman

#14. I love my life. I can't believe I work in New York and Paris. That I work for Louis Vuitton. That I work for Marc Jacobs. It seems really weird every time I say my full name - like, that's me, and every time I hear the receptionist say my name, it's still weird.

Marc Jacobs

#15. I am so grateful to Marc Jacobs, Riccardo Tisci, Karl Lagerfeld, and Katie Grand, who took a chance on me that first season and gave me an opportunity.

Kendall Jenner

#16. I am Marc Jacobs by birth, but we are Marc Jacobs by the company that we built.

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#17. I do have designers that I love to wear, like Philip Lim and Marc Jacobs whose stuff I know will look good on my body. But still, I always like to express myself by changing things up.

Rashida Jones

#18. I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.

Nate Berkus

#19. I love De la Renta. I love CoSTUME National; I think they're just incredible. And I love Marc Jacobs, too - they're also great, just a great brand.

Uzo Aduba

#20. My favourite smell on a man is Lynx and Marc Jacobs.

Abbey Clancy

#21. I'm such a geek, I know all about mythology and I don't know Marc Jacobs.

Amber Benson

#22. The entire spring and summer line from Marc Jacobs was stolen on the way to the fashion show in Paris. The thief is considered armed and fabulous.

Jay Leno

#23. I can't live without my silver Marc Jacobs boots! They are a little bit cowboy, a little bit space alien. They go with everything.

Wynter Gordon

#24. My favorite designers are, Chloe, D&G, Christian Louboutin and Marc Jacobs. I change my style from day to day, so I have many favorites.

Candice Swanepoel

#25. I envy the people who go to Paris the first time

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#26. 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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#27. Life is a fashion show, the world is your runway.

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#28. Both my partner and I did not get into cooking so that we could wear ugly chef's coats and stuff. We dress sexy in the kitchen.

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#29. 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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#30. Luxury is about pleasing yourself, not dressing for other people

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#31. I go through phases where I buy only Speed Stick and Axe, and Noxzema shaving cream.

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#32. For people that don't have any interest in the psychology of nuance, who need everything to be in their face, who don't want to analyze ... those aren't the people I romanticize about dressing.

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#33. I don't find clothes sexy at all. I find people sexy.

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#34. Even mistakes can get you one step further.

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#35. Sometimes there are two very opposite directions, and we go with the stronger one at the end. It's an impulse thing, like, 'Oh, I love both so much, but it's got to be one or the other because the two don't work together.'

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#36. Living in the past or living in the future - those aren't real. The moment is now, and that's where safety and comfort and all that good stuff is.

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#37. 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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#38. I value very much the time before the show, when there is nothing else but to concentrate on the show, and it's just purely design.

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#39. For so many years, I felt so insecure, so inferior, and I still have those moments, but I have a newfound confidence since I got in shape and changed my diet.

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#40. It's the things that aren't accepted as conventionally beautiful that I find more attractive.

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#41. I said, 'Okay, it's the year 2000, I'm getting a computer and a Palm Pilot.' I know how to check my e-mail, and I've listed some phone numbers on it. Half the time the battery has gone out so I can't use it.

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#42. Anyone who thinks designers don't talk to editors, and editors don't talk to stores doesn't know what's happening ... It's called crossover, sampling all references in music, art and fashion.

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#43. I'd like to be invisible. To be anonymous and see things for what they really are. The truth may be painful but it's probably useful!

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#44. I like the sort of 'nothingness' of the jeans and the T-shirt. I feel that's about as close as I can get to the future because it seems like something so old that will always be, so I feel it's a safe bet for the future.

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#45. But in another, I think a woman's going to go into a shop to find a coat or a jacket and I just don't think she's not going to go into a shop because of a bad review she probably didn't even read.

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#46. I think of many people and no one as a muse. I love the way Sofia looks always, and I love the way Kim looks always. Fashion may be part of their world, but it's not their whole life. It's not everything.

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#47. I love the gym, but I still want to look a bit awkward at it. I don't want to look too on top of it, you know?

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#48. I love to design for women, it's really open and very free. I always think of my friends. I think of both fictitious characters, real people from the past and the present. I am not a woman, but I find women so beautiful and so fascinating.

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#49. Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time.

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#50. I love attention, I'm very honest about it ... [but] if I wanna wear a pink dress or a lace dress or a kilt of whatever, it's like I'm not solely doing it for attention, I'm doing it first for myself because it gives me pleasure.

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#51. Let's do what we love and do a lot of it.

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#52. Clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them.

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#53. That was a time when I did love music, I couldn't get enough of what was going on. Maybe it was Nirvana that brought me back. I guess it was a comfort because something that sounded so right - and non-commercial - had become so influential, so immediately.

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#54. It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people.

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#55. Sex is always good, isn't it? Well, actually it's not always good, but it's always a good thing.

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#56. You can never please everyone, and I think it's best not to.

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#57. I always find it kind of embarrassing, kind of funny, and kind of exciting. In New York I'm recognized a lot, although nobody says anything. You know, they stare at you just a second too long. But in Paris it's not as commonplace to be recognized.

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#58. Art critics are like every other critic.

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#59. I do think that in order for a company to be interesting to the investment community, there needs to be a plan; there needs to be a bigger retail footprint. There needs to be this idea - DNA, lifestyle, words I hate.

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#60. I like spending time at home. In Paris, people drop by and have a bite to eat, or they drop by and watch Friends on TV. I take my dog to the office there, and I walk to work sometimes.

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#61. I guess when I look over my shoulder at other designers, I feel like people are so definitive. It's so clear to me what their aesthetic is, what they're projecting. And I look at my own work and I think, Who could ever decipher what the hell is going on?

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#62. We want to do sweaters for dogs and call it 'Bark Jacobs.' If it works, great. If it doesn't, we'll drop it and do something different.

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#63. Yes, I always remember my dad's, mom's and my grandma's perfumes.

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#64. Awkwardness gives me great comfort. I've never been cool, but I've felt cool. I've been in the cool place, but I wasn't really cool - I was trying to pass for hip or cool. It's the awkwardness that's nice.

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#65. I like to make things. I like making choices, choosing colours, evoking a spirit, a change.

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#66. I never cared about buying things for myself, like clothes. And then all of a sudden I realized how great it is to be very precise about the shirts that I wear and all the things that are a part of my closet. So the ritual of fashion and shopping became very personal to me.

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#67. The thing I most love and hate about fashion is that it changes all the time. But I don't think I or anyone else can singlehandedly get rid of hooker style. Popular taste isn't great by definition. It's just popular.

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#68. Any opportunity to adorn oneself is human, and accessories are an easy way to do it.

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#69. I think when I started to get in shape and spend time at the gym, I could be better to other people and be better to myself and get back to loving fashion and experience it myself. I started to wear kilts and lace dresses.

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#70. I still appreciate individuality. Style is much more interesting than fashion, really.

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#71. Grunge is a hippied romantic version of punk.

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#72. I go to the gym every morning for a couple of hours, then I come to work, whatever is on the plate for the day, I do it. I don't ask many questions, I go where I am told to.

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#73. I'm a designer. I make clothes and bags and shoes. I have a job that involves making creative choices, but I'm not a divinely inspired human being like an artist!

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#74. 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. Even if it's weird, it's very particular to me. And you can't make a business out of what I would wear. We'd be out of business.

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#75. My mind absorbs things in a funny way. I'm on planes quite a bit and I always take stacks and stacks of magazines and I go through them and tear pages out and fold them up, and they get stuck at the bottom of my backpack or whatever.

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#76. I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect, because that's natural and that's real.

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#77. Staring up at the sky on a bright, sunny day makes me dream and gives me ideas.

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#78. What's comfortable to me is familiarity. Comfort has nothing to do with the size of the garment. I do find something quite comfortable and charming in a too-narrow shoulder, a sleeve that's too short or too long, a pant that's too high or too low, hems that are trod on.

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#79. I always wanted to be a fashion designer so I just have to remember that as long as I'm doing it I'm living the dream.

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#80. Without any kind of real ego on my part, I just thought, I'm going to approach the people I admire and see if they want to do something together.

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#81. I'm not a model, so the idea of modelling a suit or clothes is weird in itself.

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#82. I do love fashion. I certainly wouldn't suffer all the stress that comes with it if I didn't really love it. I always talk about the team of people I work with every day. They share that passion.

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#83. I think scent is sensual. I guess evoking a mood or a spirit is key, and I think with the women's fragrances we have evoked different types, moods or sensibilities of a woman - whether it's Daisy with the sweetness and the innocence or Lola which is more provocative, sexy and sultry.

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#84. I like characters. I like spirited characters whether they exist in fiction or real life. Whether they're the invention of artistic people or directors, musicians. I think music and art and fashion designers inspire me and I like characters.

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#85. I love attention.

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#86. Change is a great and horrible thing, and people love it or hate it at the same time. Without change, however, you just don't move.

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#87. I don't want to sound too silly or pretentious about this, but, you know, I love being in Paris. I love working at Louis Vuitton. I love fashion. That's why I do it. No one's forcing me to do this. And nobody forces anyone to buy it. It's a real love affair.

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#88. Sometimes, you just have to clear your head and get out to see other things. It is very important to be nourished. I love to go to museums and galleries, I like to see theatre, film, dance - anything creative. It doesn't promise you inspiration, but it nourishes your creative soul, and that's good.

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#89. The red carpet doesn't interest me. I think people become all the same; it's like everyone posing from the three-quarter angle in some low-cut, fitted dress; it's all the same.

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#90. 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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#91. It's funny because every time I go to a shoot, and I have clothes on, they inevitably come off. I just did one recently and the stylist was like, "So ... " and you just know that they are going to get to the point where they say "Can you take your clothes off?"

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#92. Sephora's business is really smart and clever - I'm all for anything that gets people up and out and into the social experience of shopping.

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#93. 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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#94. My opinion about myself is so based on what other people think of me.

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#95. I'm not good at hiding my feelings. I'm also not good at lying. I'm very open about everything.

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#96. I hate this idea that you have to love somebody because they are your family. Nobody can tell me what I'm supposed to feel and who I am supposed to feel it for.

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#97. I think it's an old fashioned notion that fashion needs to be exclusive to be fashionable.

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#98. I am a perfect being in a perfect world.

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#99. I'd like to believe that the women who wear my clothes are not dressing for other people, that they're wearing what they like and what suits them. It's not a status thing.

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#100. We live in a world where people are really hungry for information, and they're not hungry for information on subjects that they're not interested in.

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