Marc Jacobs was born in New York City on April 9, 1963. After graduating from the High School of Art and Design in 1981 he entered Parson’s School of Design. As a design student at Parson’s, Jacobs was the recipient of some of the schools highest honors including Design Student of the Year.
In 1986 Jacobs designed his first collection with the Marc Jacobs label. The following year, Jacobs received the distinct honor of being the youngest designer ever to be awarded the fashion industry’s highest tribute: The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) Perry Ellis Award for New Fashion Talent.
n 1989 Jacobs and business partner Robert Duffy joined Perry Ellis as Vice-President of Women’s Design and President respectively. In 1992, the CFDA once again bestowed Jacobs with a distinct honor: the Women’s Designer of the Year Award for his fabled Grunge Collection.
In the fall of 1993, Jacobs Duffy Designs Inc. launched their own licensing and design company: Marc Jacobs International Company, L.P.
Jacobs and Duffy joined Louis Vuitton in 1997, Jacobs as Artistic Director and Duffy as Studio Director.
Jacobs introduced the secondary line, Marc by Marc Jacobs, with a spring 2001 runway show. He has gone on to win seven CFDA awards including Womenswear Designer of the Year, Accessories Designer of the Year and Menswear designer of the year.
The first multi-brand store in the U.S. opened in August 2004 on Boston’s Newbury Street and May 2005 brought the opening of 3 new stores in Los Angeles. The company opened their first free-standing European store in Paris at The Palais Royal in January, 2006 and followed with a London location in February, 2007. In the Spring of 2007 a full line of children’s wear, aptly named Little Marc Jacobs was launched.
The company has expanded to more than 60 stores worldwide and currently produces six fragrances, 2 eyewear collections, a line of watches, and a table top collection with partner Waterford Wedgewood that launched in December 2006.
Multiple freestanding stores and shop–in-shops continue to open domestically and across the Far East. Currently Marc Jacobs Collection and Marc by Marc Jacobs stores can be found in four locations in Hong Kong, four locations in Taiwan, twenty-five locations in Japan (including flagships in Osaka and Aoyama) and five locations in Korea.
2007 marked the opening of a Men’s and Women’s Collection store on London’s Mount Street as well as a multi-brand store in historic Savannah, Georgia, a seasonal store in Provincetown, as well as multi brand stores in Tokyo and Moscow. Additionally the company released a new fragrance, Daisy, in September.
In January, 2008 a Marc by Marc Jacobs boutique opened in Chicago’s Bucktown and several limited edition fragrances were launched: 3 new Splash scents, a limited edition Daisy fragrance in a new black bottle and sheer versions of the classic Fig and Gardenia fragrances will be available for Summer 2008. In the Fall of 2008 new Marc by Marc Jacobs stores are slated to open in Paris and Madrid and London in early 2009.
Marc Jacobs and Robert Duffy are committed to giving back to the communities where they have stores and have been involved with over 60 charities. Their continual support of these charitable projects continues to be a top priority.
- Active Element Foundation
- America Coming Together
- Artsconnection
- Bailey House
- Camp Okizu
- Cancer Care
- Circle of Life Foundation
- City Critters
- City Harvest
- Citymeals-on-Wheels
- Climate Project
- Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Crusaid
- Downtown for Democracy
- Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
- Empire State Pride Agenda
- Fresh Art
- Friends of Hillary
- Gift of Hope AIDS Hospice
- God’s Love We Deliver
- Greenwich Village Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Community Center
- Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation
- Heifer International
- Hetrick-Martin Institute
- Housing Works
- Hudson River Park Trust
- Hudson Valley AIDS Auction
- New Visions for Public Schools
- New York University Skin and Cancer Unit
- North Beach Citizen’s Group
- PAAM (Provincetown Art Association and Museum)
- Parsons School of Design
- Peace One Day
- Phoenix House
- Planned Parenthood of NYC
- Post Graduate Center for Public Health
- Project Open Hand
- Riverkeeper
- SCAAD (Savannah College of Art and Design)
- Step Up on Second
- The Door
- The Climate Project
- The Andy Warhol Museum
- Third Wave Foundation
- The Andy Warhol Museum
- Third Wave Foundation
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