In 1988, Jacobs and Duffy joined the women's design unit of Perry Ellis as creative director/vice president and president, respectively, following the death of its namesake and founder. In 1987, he was the youngest designer to have ever been awarded the fashion industry's highest tribute, the Council of Fashion Designers of America's Perry Ellis Award for "New Fashion Talent". In 1986, backed by Onward Kashiyama USA, Inc., Jacobs designed his first collection bearing the Marc Jacobs label. With Robert Duffy, Jacobs's creative collaborator and business partner from the mid-1980s, he formed Jacobs Duffy Designs. He also designed his first collection for Reuben Thomas, Inc., under the Sketchbook label. While studying at Parsons, he designed and sold his first line of hand-knit sweaters. Career Īt age 15, Jacobs worked as a stockboy at Charivari, a now-defunct avant-garde clothing boutique in New York City. He also won the Women's Designer of the Year award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America in 1993. In 1987, he became the youngest designer ever to receive the Council of Fashion Designers of America's Perry Ellis Award for New Fashion Talent. While at Parsons in 1984, he won the Perry Ellis & Chester Weinberg Gold Thimble Award, and Design Student of the Year. He attended the High School of Art and Design and studied at Parsons School of Design in New York. Jacobs grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey, and attended Teaneck High School. His mother, who remarried three times, was, according to Jacobs, " mentally ill" and "didn't really take care of her kids." As a teenager, he went to live with his paternal grandmother on the Upper West Side, in an apartment in the Majestic on Central Park West. When he was seven, his father, an agent at the William Morris Agency, died. Jacobs was born to a non-observant Jewish family in New York City. He married his longtime partner Charly Defrancesco on April 6, 2019. 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 was the creative director of the French design house Louis Vuitton from 1997 to 2014. At its peak, it had over 200 retail stores in 80 countries.
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, before it was discontinued after the 2015 fall/winter collection.
Marc Jacobs (born April 9, 1963) is an American fashion designer. Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters (France)
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