Marc Jacobs is an American fashion designer. He is the head designer for Marc Jacobs, as well as Marc by Marc Jacobs, a diffusion line, with more than 200 retail stores in 60 countries. He is also the creative director of the French design house Louis Vuitton since 1997. Jacobs is on Time Magazine’s “2010 Time 100” list of the 100 most influential people in the world, and ranked 12th on Out Magazine’s 2011 list of “50 Most Powerful Gay Men and Women in America”.

In 1986, backed by Onward Kashiyama USA, Inc., Jacobs designed his first collection bearing the Marc Jacobs label. In 1987, Jacobs 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 the spring of 2001, Jacobs introduced his secondary line, Marc by Marc Jacobs.

According to Tim Blakes from style.com: “There’s always been a very simple way to distinguish between Marc Jacobs’ collections: His signature line was thought; his secondary line was felt. Where the first reflected his fashion fantasies, the second was all about a life he’d once lived.”

About Marc by Marc Jacobs S/S 2012 collection Blakes says: “MxM’s spirit used to be shaped by the sense of college/Mudd Club kids in vintage, but that was shot to hell tonight by the opening salvo of neon: for girls, a bright orange shift; for boys, a suit in hazmat orange. That particular shade insinuated itself throughout the show to great effect, tripping up outfits that otherwise would have been quite conventional. But that is the peculiar talent of Jacobs: to warp the familiar in a way that is utterly seductive.”

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Marc by Marc Jacobs on style.com
Marc Jacobs’ website