Marc Jacobs (born April 9, 1963) is an American fashion designer. 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 having been discontinued after the 2015 fall/winter collection. At one point there were over 200 retail stores in 80 countries.
He was the creative director of the French design house Louis Vuitton from 1997 to 2014. 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 got married on 7 April 2019, to his long time boyfriend Charly Defrancesco.
Fashion Dynamo Marc Jacobs Sells Stylish Manhattan Townhouse
variety.comOne of fashion’s most compelling and enduring designers, Marc Jacobs, has sold his casually glamorous townhouse at the Superior Ink complex in New York City’s West Village for $10.5 million.
The abnormally talented and famously flamboyant former creative director of Louis Vuitton, who now oversees his own, eponymous label, first listed the handsome residence with Sotheby’s Int’l Realty almost a year ago, shortly after he married high-end candlemaker Char Defrancesco in a ceremony attended by scores of supermodels and celebs.
By the end of the year, the entirely too optimistic original price tag of nearly $15 million had dropped to $14.5 million, and not too long after the first of the year the listing was taken over by “Million Dollar
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