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.
The Network Acquires Docuseries ‘Kingdom of Dreams,’ Which Takes On the High Fashion Industry (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comMichael Schneider Variety Editor at Large The Network — the free ad-supported on-demand streamer behind John Leguizamo’s drama series “The Green Veil,” has secured its next program acquisition” “Kingdom of Dreams,” a docuseries that first aired in the U.K.
on Sky in 2022, and will now be available in the U.S. for the first time. The four-part “Kingdom of Dreams,” which will start streaming on Thursday, Sept.
15, centers on the mystery and intrigue that came with the dark side of the high fashion industry in the early 1990s through the 2010s.
The series focuses on the rise to fame of designers including John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Marc Jacobs and Tom Ford. Produced by Misfits Entertainment, along with Fremantle (which has global distribution rights to the show), “Kingdom of Dreams” uses library footage, personal archives and new interviews to focus on what it describes as “the tough journey to succeed as top designers while being pushed to the edge by the largest fashion conglomerates in the world using aggressive methods and hostile takeovers to dominate the global fashion market.
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