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.
Gail O’Neill Dies: Model & TV Personality Was 61
deadline.comGail O’Neill, a top fashion model who became one of the original correspondent on CBS’ The Early Show, died Oct. 10. She was believed to be 61.
No cause of the death has been released. The daughter of Jamaican immigrants, O’Neill was born in Westchester, New York. She was working a marketing job for Xerox when she was discovered and embarked on a modeling career in the mid-1980s.
O’Neill appeared on the covers of magazines such as Vogue, Mademoiselle and Essence, she was featured in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, starred in ads for such companies as Avon, Revlon and Coca-Cola and modeled for such designers as Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Perry Ellis, Marc Jacobs and Michael Kors.
Along with Naomi Campbell, O’Neill was an early member of the Black Girls Coalition, an advocacy group for black models founded by Iman and Bethann Hardison.
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