Quotes by Marc Jacobs - Page 4

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.
Marc Jacobs / Fashion Designer
Beautiful
Character
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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.
Marc Jacobs / Fashion Designer
Art
Artistic
Directors
Fashion
Fiction
Inspire
Invention
Real
Real Life
Spirited
Life Art Music
Characters
Exist
Designers
Musicians
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When you design a dress you ask yourself, would woman like it or no. It's much more of a creative process, not a research or trying to make somethings that sells or appeals. I hope that it will appeal to somebody, but it isn't what drives me.
Marc Jacobs / Fashion Designer
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Trying
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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.
Marc Jacobs / Fashion Designer
Design
Artist
Creative
Creative People
Doors
Team
Work Great People
Louis
Artists
Work Great Design
Collaborator
Door
Existed
Marc
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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.
Marc Jacobs / Fashion Designer
New York
Commonplace
Embarrassing
Long
Paris
Although
Funny Always Long
Recognized
Stare
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I've learned a lot about doing accessories and making shoes and handbags. I don't think my perspective has really changed. The subtlety of understanding yarns, what makes a fabric what it is - I've learned technical skills and more about the craft.
Marc Jacobs / Fashion Designer
Accessories
Changed
Fabric
Handbags
Perspective
Shoes
Skills
Subtlety
Thinking
Understanding
Craft
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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?
Marc Jacobs / Fashion Designer
Aesthetic
Clear
Decipher
Looks
My Own
People
Thinking
Work Me Look
Definitive
Designers
Guess
Hell Is
Projecting
Shoulder
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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.
Marc Jacobs / Fashion Designer
Comfort
Influential
Music Love
Love Time Music
Immediately
Nirvana
Non-Commercial
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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.
Marc Jacobs / Fashion Designer
Affair
Fashion
Pretentious
Real
Real Love
Silly
Sound
Louis
Love Me Nobody
Anyone
Love Me Real
Nobody
Buy
Working
Forces
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Design is a series of creative choices - it's a collaborative effort, an evolutionary process. You choose your fabrics depending upon what you want to say, then you work with mills to get those fabrics. Through the process, you realize what you want it to be.
Marc Jacobs / Fashion Designer
Work
Design
Choices
Creative
Effort
Mills
Process
Series
Work Your Effort
Then
Get
Those
Through
Choose
Collaborative
Depending
Evolutionary
Say
Fabrics
Realize
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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?"
Marc Jacobs / Fashion Designer
Clothes
Knows
Stylist
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I create the concept, which for me is about deciding upon the right girl and the right 'spirit', and thinking of all the things that visually describe her. It's just like putting together a fashion show; for me, that starts with the spirit and the girls as well.
Marc Jacobs / Fashion Designer
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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 / Fashion Designer
New York
Believe
Names
Seems
Life Love Time
Life Love Work
Weird
Louis
Every Time
Marc
York
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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.
Marc Jacobs / Fashion Designer
Art
Bigger
Contemporary
Contemporary Art
Influential
Looks
People
Very
Then
Art World People
Actually
Much
Interested
How
Look
Small
Art Look World
Larger
Realise
Slightly
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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.
Marc Jacobs / Fashion Designer
Kilts
Particular
Picky
Scope
Shirts
White
Weird
Business Me Day
Basically
Wear
Shirt
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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.
Marc Jacobs / Fashion Designer
Charming
Comfort
Familiarity
Size
Quite
Long Me Nothing
Short
Garment
Low
Shoulder
Sleeve
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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.
Marc Jacobs / Fashion Designer
Buying
Buying Things
Fashion
Precise
Ritual
Shirts
Shopping
Great Myself Me
Cared
Closet
Sudden
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No one ever said 'no' to me about anything. No one ever told me anything was wrong. Never. No one ever said, 'You can't be a fashion designer.' No one ever said, 'You're a boy and you can't take tap-dancing lessons.' No one ever said, 'You're a boy and you can't have long hair.'
Marc Jacobs / Fashion Designer
Designer
Fashion
Fashion Designer
Lessons
Long Hair
Me Long Hair
Me Long Long Hair
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As far back as I can remember, I had an interest in fashion. I used to go to sleepaway camp, and they'd provide a list of things that you had to bring, and I always wanted to be a bit more creative than the list allowed. Like, if they required chinos, I wanted to hand-paint them.
Marc Jacobs / Fashion Designer
Creative
Fashion
Hands
Always Remember I Can
Allowed
Bring
Camp
Remember Always Back
List
Provide
Required
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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.
Marc Jacobs / Fashion Designer
Women
Different
Innocence
Keys
Mood
Provocative
Scent
Sexy
Spirit
Sweetness
Thinking
Woman
Daisy
Different Types
Evoking
Guess
Sensibilities
Types
Whether
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When I was starting out, it seemed like there were so many girls who were known by their first names, who were unique, who all had idiosyncrasies and characteristics that made them individual. Those girls stuck around; you'd work with them season after season. But now it's completely different.
Marc Jacobs / Fashion Designer
Girl
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Unique
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I'm not really well educated - other than an art survey course at the High School of Art and Design in New York when I was, like, 15. I don't know the history of art, but I got over intimidation from the art world when I realized that I was allowed to feel whatever I want and like whatever I want.
Marc Jacobs / Fashion Designer
New York
Design
Art World
Educated
High School
Intimidation
Art History World
Allowed
Course
Realized
Survey
York
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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.
Marc Jacobs / Fashion Designer
Dance
Creative
Inspiration
Museums
Promise
Theatre
Love Good Soul
Galleries
Nourished
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When you see a fashion show, you see those seven minutes of what was six months of tedious work of, you know, going up an inch and down an inch, changing it from one shade of red to another shade of red. So it's the same as any creative process. The result is what we see, but the process is really labor intensive and work.
Marc Jacobs / Fashion Designer
Creative
Creative Process
Fashion
Fashion Show
Labor
Minutes
Red
Seven
Shade
Six
Six Months
Tedious
Inch
Intensive
Result
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Whether it's an $11 flip-flop or a $2 key ring or a $2,000 dress, they're all done with integrity. They're all done with a design sense. As long as the creativity exists, then I don't think it's a sellout. A sellout is putting your name on any piece of crap and then expecting people to buy it because it's got your name on it.
Marc Jacobs / Fashion Designer
Design
Crap
Creativity
Integrity
Thinking
Ring
Name
Buy
Exists
Piece
Putting
Sellout
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You can go to Graff and buy a diamond that's flawless. You aren't going to be able to buy the same diamond at Fortunoff, but it's still a diamond you can enjoy. If fashion can allow you to have the Chanel mystique through a lipstick, then why shouldn't art allow you to have that through a sweatshirt that says 'Cremaster' on it?
Marc Jacobs / Fashion Designer
Art
Able
Diamond
Fashion
Flawless
Lipstick
Mystique
Chanel
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I don't know, but I always loved that image of a girl putting toenail polish on a guy - her boyfriend, or something like that. Or a guy waking up in the morning and reaching over and putting on his girlfriend's shirt. Like Keith Richards putting on one of Anita Pallenberg's blouses, or Courtney Love putting nail polish on Kurt Cobain.
Marc Jacobs / Fashion Designer
Boyfriend
Girl
Morning
Courtney
Guy
Nail Polish
Reaching
Waking
Love Morning Always
Courtney Love
Nail
Richards
Shirt
Waking Up
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I can remember years ago, when Kate Moss first came around and there were so many articles. Everyone was saying that it was heroin chic - that she was a waif, that she was anorexic. But Kate would eat just as much as anybody I knew - the media had just turned her into this thing. It must be really, really hard when you're the object of that.
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Heroin
Remember
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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.
Marc Jacobs / Fashion Designer
Hate
Looks
Past
In The Past
Reference
Sudden
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I think something happens with age. And I find this really a lot in what I read from certain art critics: For people who are all about change-people who are supposed to be intellectually and culturally drawn to the idea of change and how the voice of a creative person affects the world on a bigger scale than just the canvas-I would expect a person in that position to have that open mind. It's only a sign of age that they become so locked in their own rules that they forget that this is what it's all about.
Marc Jacobs / Fashion Designer
Art
Ideas
Thinking
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