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Marc Jacobs Strips for Calvin Klein Interview in Harper’s Bazaar
Aug 13th
Marc Jacobs knows clothes, but that doesn’t mean he has to wear them, OK?
The designer strips off in a revealing new interview with Calvin Klein for the September issue of Harper’s Bazaar.
Covered only by a well-placed bathrobe in the Nan Goldin-shot image, Jacobs opens up about his nude Bang fragrance ad, his desire to create wearable fashions, and his body image.
“When guys started looking at me and asking me out on dates, I felt way better about myself,” he tells Klein.
“So it was hard to keep my clothes on, actually. And whenever I was asked to take my clothes off, I was like, ‘Sure! I haven’t worked out for three years to keep this all under wraps.’”
Don’t let us stop you. We’re still mopping up the drool from that Bang ad.
“I did feel good about the way I looked, so it was easy and — well, a guy looks better to me with no clothes on than with clothes,” Jacobs says of the shoot.
Fair enough. But when it comes to his clients — which may soon extend to plus-size gals – Jacobs seems grounded in reality.
“I’m not interested in making stuff for museums; I want the clothes to be worn,” he says.
“I don’t care if the girl sits on a curb in them after a party and they’re destroyed.
“I have to believe that there’s going to be a life for these things. Otherwise, I wouldn’t send them down the catwalk.”
Word. But trust us, MJ — if we wear one of your designs and it gets destroyed, we’ll care enough for the both of us.
Meanwhile, check out Harper’s Bazaar’s “killer” Rachel Zoe spread.
WATCH MARC JACOBS TALK ABOUT THE VUlTTON FALL CAMPAlGN!
Jul 2nd
lt’s wrong to have favourites, but we have to admit that have totally fallen head over heels in love with the images from Louis Vuitton‘s A/W’10 ad campaign. Seems the luxury label’s creative director Marc Jacobs is equally pleased, as he tells us all about the thinking behind the images in this new short video about the making of the campaign. The chosen ‘faces’ for next season are like a retrospective of supermodels through the years - Christy Turlington, Karen Elson and Natalia Vodianova, or as Marc describes them “three of the most beautiful women, l think, in the world…. a blonde, brunette and a redhead.”
The set (for the Steven Meisel-photographed) shoot is a an old-fashioned dressing room, and Jacobs wanted “a cinematic feeling…. really a continuation of the spirit that we started with the show; that was a celebration of women and this joy and indulging in the qualities and the luxuries in the art of living that women get to enjoy …. ”
And of course, indulging in the Louis Vuitton ‘art of living’ includes “the beautiful quality of the bag and gorgeous feminine clothes”; mmm, we can just hear those fabuluxe bags snapping shut with a gratifying ‘clunk’. The campaign has also given us an instant craving for high ponytails and volumised skirts, because we all want to be, as Marc puts it; “just immaculately pretty girls… well, women…”
