On Monday night, Marc Jacobs will receive the CFDA’s Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award. WWD’s Bridget Foley’s Diary sits down to chat:
“I really believe in, is something Chanel said: “He who insists on his own creativity has no memory.”
“And I can’t help but remember the days when Robert and I were interviewed for “48 Hours” [in 1988]. Robert was building a runway. I’m vomiting in the bathroom because we hadn’t slept in three days and we were delirious and hallucinating. So none of that ever goes away.”
“There’s that thing on the Internet about me, this person at 48 being physically addicted to going to the gym two hours a day, who goes for manicures and pedicures and facials and injections and haircuts regularly and all of this taking care of oneself to the extreme”
“The one (designer) that I probably feel the most strongly about is Miuccia, because of the aesthetic and the mood. There’s something so shocking and so tender about it: I’m sitting here in a banana print shirt from Prada [with a Comme des Garçons kilt.]
” Instead of being the guy with the long hair and the glasses who didn’t change his clothes, I [became] someone that everyone didn’t want in his clothes.”
“Everyone [on photo shoots] was like, “Take your clothes off!” and I was like, “With pleasure! I didn’t work this hard to keep them on.”
“If you look at our first Vuitton show, we wanted to send out a nice collection of simple clothes with all the logos on the inside and one single bag on Kirsten Owen. It has evolved into, ‘OK, this is Paris. Let’s have three elevators’. I asked for six; I got three. So we’re like, ‘Let’s get Kate Moss, Naomi. Let’s fly in Stella. Let’s fly in Carolyn and Amber.’ You want a show? Okay guys, I’ll give you a show.”
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