Marc Jacobs

The history of how he became a famous fashion designer.

Who was Marc Jacobs?

According to his biography Marc Jacobs began at parson design school and later landed a role at perry Ellis, he also worked as creative director for louis vuitton before launching his own fashion label marc jacobs and marc by marc jacobs, still remaining a strong well known fashion designer.

His earlier life seemed a whirlwind he was born April 9th 1963, and at age 7 his father died of ulcerative colitis an illness he also had, his mother remarried over and over again for him and his siblings moving from one place to the other.

He loved living with his grandmother who was emotionally and mentally stable , no one said no to him, saying he can’t be a fashion designer, he cant take tap dancing lessons, hae can’t be gay. This seemed the first step to Marc Jacobs fashion label.

His fashion prodigy started when he attended high school art and design at age 15 working for boutique Charivari where staff allowed him to design sweaters in between dressing mannequins and folding clothes.

Biography.com mentions He cited the visually rich films Amadeus and Purple Rain his inspirations for the line. In 1987, he became the youngest designer ever to win the Council of Fashion Designers of America Perry Ellis Award for New Fashion Talent.

Jacobs took over as the women’s-wear designer for Perry Ellis, where he won the prestigious 1992 CFDA prize for Womenswear Designer of the Year (an award he would win again in 1997).

In 1997 he was named creative director of louis vuitton luxury goods in paris. however, it is mentioned brought tremendous struggles, like drug use of cocaine and heroin, including alcohol use. Model Naomi Campbell and and vogue editor Anna wintour asked him to get help in 1999 he checked himself in a rehab centre.

After cleaning up he threw himself back to work and and created Louis vuitton ready to wear line expanding his label.

To read mor on Marc Jacobs behind the scenes please read https://www.biography.com/history-culture/marc-jacobs

to buy his designs please visit his official website https://www.marcjacobs.com/

https://www.marcjacobsfragrances.com/en-us.

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