Marc Jacobs Quotes

“I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect, because that's natural and that's real.”

— Marc Jacobs

“It's the things that aren't accepted as conventionally beautiful that I find more attractive.”

— Marc Jacobs

“Young girls need to learn that sexiness isin't about being naked.”

— Marc Jacobs

“When you see a fashion show, you see those seven minutes of what was six months of tedious work of, you know, going up an inch and down an inch, changing it from one shade of red to another shade of red. So it's the same as any creative process. The result is what we see, but the process is really labor intensive and work.”

— Marc Jacobs

“Luxury is anything you don't need, right? I mean, you need food, water, clothing, shelter ... but good wine, good food, beautiful interiors, nice clothes; those aren't necessities, they are luxuries - it's all luxury.”

— Marc Jacobs

“Sometimes I miss hamburgers, I should say that. I miss the tuna pizzas at Mercer Kitchen.”

— Marc Jacobs

In terms of having a business, I wanted to let it go beyond what my personal taste is. Basically, I'm in a kilt and a white shirt every day. So, you know, I don't have a lot of scope, and I'm really picky about what I wear.

— Marc Jacobs

“What's comfortable to me is familiarity. Comfort has nothing to do with the size of the garment. I do find something quite comfortable and charming in a too-narrow shoulder, a sleeve that's too short or too long, a pant that's too high or too low, hems that are trod on.”

— Marc Jacobs

“Clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them.”

— Marc Jacobs

“I've learned a lot about doing accessories and making shoes and handbags. I don't think my perspective has really changed. The subtlety of understanding yarns, what makes a fabric what it is - I've learned technical skills and more about the craft.”

— Marc Jacobs

“I love to take things that are everyday and comforting and make them into the most luxurious things in the world.”

— Marc Jacobs

Design is a series of creative choices - it's a collaborative effort, an evolutionary process. You choose your fabrics depending upon what you want to say, then you work with mills to get those fabrics. Through the process, you realize what you want it to be.

— Marc Jacobs

“I'm not really well educated - other than an art survey course at the High School of Art and Design in New York when I was, like, 15. I don't know the history of art, but I got over intimidation from the art world when I realized that I was allowed to feel whatever I want and like whatever I want.”

— Marc Jacobs

“Living in the past or living in the future - those aren't real. The moment is now, and that's where safety and comfort and all that good stuff is.”

— Marc Jacobs

I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it.

— Marc Jacobs

“My grandmother was amazing. She completely believed in me and was very encouraging. She would go to the supermarket or the butcher or wherever and tell people, 'My grandson is going to be the next Calvin Klein.'”

— Marc Jacobs

“I believe that anything can be for men or women. I mean, I've worn a lace dress before!”

— Marc Jacobs

“I don't need to be better than anybody or worse than anybody to feel better about myself. I just need to stick on my own path and stay in the moment as best I can.”

— Marc Jacobs

“We're developing things, but I don't know what we'll go with for the show, so I don't like to talk about it.”

— Marc Jacobs

But the customer is the final, final filter. What survives the whole process is what people wear. I'm not interested in making clothes that end up in some dusty museum.

— Marc Jacobs

“I don't think there is just one Louis Vuitton woman. That is why, for the fall/winter 2011 show, I loved the idea of lots of different characters - a wife, a mistress, a girlfriend - stepping out of the row of hotel elevators.”

— Marc Jacobs

“I mean, I'd love to have a private jet - I know people who fly by private jet all the time ... I've hitched a ride a few times and it is not overrated at all; it's a great way to travel!”

— Marc Jacobs

“I always find it kind of embarrassing, kind of funny, and kind of exciting. In New York I'm recognized a lot, although nobody says anything. You know, they stare at you just a second too long. But in Paris it's not as commonplace to be recognized.”

— Marc Jacobs

“Sephora is a mecca for cosmetics, and it supports what I enjoy: You go into the store, and touch it, and try it, and love it. I've never bought anything on the Internet. I like experience.”

— Marc Jacobs

“If they asked me, I would do anything for the 'South Park' guys.”

— Marc Jacobs

“Basically, I'm in a kilt and a white shirt every day. So, you know, I don't have a lot of scope, and I'm really picky about what I wear. Even if it's weird, it's very particular to me. And you can't make a business out of what I would wear. We'd be out of business.”

— Marc Jacobs

“I do love fashion. I certainly wouldn't suffer all the stress that comes with it if I didn't really love it. I always talk about the team of people I work with every day. They share that passion.”

— Marc Jacobs

“I don't think, 'Gee, I'd like to dress this person.' There was a picture in Us magazine. It was a jersey dress, and Courtney Love was wearing it. I have this thing about Courtney Love, this funny worship.”

— Marc Jacobs

“I think of many people and no one as a muse. I love the way Sofia looks always, and I love the way Kim looks always. Fashion may be part of their world, but it's not their whole life. It's not everything.”

— Marc Jacobs

“I love attention.”

— Marc Jacobs

“Sephora's business is really smart and clever - I'm all for anything that gets people up and out and into the social experience of shopping.”

— Marc Jacobs

“I remember walking the dog one day, I saw a car full of teenage girls, and one of them rolled down the window and yelled, 'Marc Jacobs!' in a French accent.”

— Marc Jacobs

Sofia is so active, and she made The Virgin Suicides, which I thought was great - all these things are inspiring to me, not in terms of creating a particular dress, but just in terms of knowing that there is this type of woman out there.

— Marc Jacobs

There is never a wrong time for a polka dot.

— Marc Jacobs

“Fashion isn't a necessity. It pulls at your heart. It's a whim. You don't need it. You want it.”

— Marc Jacobs

“I like the sort of 'nothingness' of the jeans and the T-shirt. I feel that's about as close as I can get to the future because it seems like something so old that will always be, so I feel it's a safe bet for the future.”

— Marc Jacobs

“Sex is always good, isn't it? Well, actually it's not always good, but it's always a good thing.”

— Marc Jacobs

“I'm a designer. I make clothes and bags and shoes. I have a job that involves making creative choices, but I'm not a divinely inspired human being like an artist!”

— Marc Jacobs

“Both my partner and I did not get into cooking so that we could wear ugly chef's coats and stuff. We dress sexy in the kitchen.”

— Marc Jacobs

“Anyone who thinks designers don't talk to editors, and editors don't talk to stores doesn't know what's happening ... It's called crossover, sampling all references in music, art and fashion.”

— Marc Jacobs

“I don't throw cell phones. I don't hurt people, I only hurt myself.”

— Marc Jacobs

“I love attention, I'm very honest about it ... [but] if I wanna wear a pink dress or a lace dress or a kilt of whatever, it's like I'm not solely doing it for attention, I'm doing it first for myself because it gives me pleasure.”

— Marc Jacobs

“The attention toward me is basically because of what we've built as a company. If we built a pile of crap then nobody would care what I ate for lunch.”

— Marc Jacobs

“Without any kind of real ego on my part, I just thought, I'm going to approach the people I admire and see if they want to do something together.”

— Marc Jacobs

When you design a dress you ask yourself, would woman like it or no. It's much more of a creative process, not a research or trying to make somethings that sells or appeals. I hope that it will appeal to somebody, but it isn't what drives me.

— Marc Jacobs

“I'd like to be invisible. To be anonymous and see things for what they really are. The truth may be painful but it's probably useful!”

— Marc Jacobs

“Part of the talent of any company is to surround yourself with people who have good spirit and help you do more and more things.”

— Marc Jacobs

I value very much the time before the show, when there is nothing else but to concentrate on the show, and it's just purely design.

— Marc Jacobs

“Creativity in any form stimulates creativity in every form, music, arts, literature ... I find inspiration in anything. It's all the same.”

— Marc Jacobs

“To be useful to others and to be useful to myself is definitely a better place to be.”

— Marc Jacobs