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February 15, 2013As people filed into the Marc Jacobs show at the Lexington Avenue Armory last night, there were more than a few concerned faces and audible groans. The trouble was a fiery golden sun hanging from the ceiling, which cast an unflattering sepia tone on everyone in the room. "I forgot to wear sunblock," ... More >>
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October 31, 2012America’s beloved designer dishes on his amazing career
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July 30, 2012These designers aren't young enough to wear diapers--and they're not old enough either--but aleXsandro Palombo has still envisioned diaper styles they might create, and then he's put them on their fashionable visages, where they look diaper-tastic and logo-licious.
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February 14, 2012Well before Marc Jacobs's show even got started, it was hard not to be impressed. To design his set, he'd hired artist Rachel Feinstein, who created what appeared to be a crumbling castle in the woods and an elevated winding path leading out into the audience. It immediately called to mind something ... More >>
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February 8, 2012Yes, there are rules.
Disobey them and you become fashion-unfabulous in the drop of a hemline.
*Run around Lincoln Center every day, telling strangers, "Gosh, I hate Fashion Week! I wouldn't be here if I didn't absolutely have to be!" This gives out the impression that you have some incred ... More >>
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February 8, 2012Juergen Teller keeps us guessing
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November 16, 2011A mini-collective sets up shop at Metro Pictures
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September 16, 2011Angela Ashman
Could there be anything more thrilling to the Fashion Week crowd than waiting for a Marc Jacobs show to start? The excitement had been mounting all week with talk that Jacobs was in negotiations to take over at Dior after the departure of John Galliano. Adding to the anticipatio ... More >>
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April 20, 2011Away with the sweaters and scarves
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February 16, 2011A picture says a thousand words
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October 22, 2010Per Curbed today, there is a grassroots force fighting the good fight against Marc Jacobs' slow and steady, and then fast and furious, takeover of the West Village. Gary Stern, a resident of Abingdon Square, will stop at nothing (well, maybe he'd stop for a generous gift card?) to keep Bleeck ... More >>
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October 11, 2010
Residents of Bleecker Street ran to their windows on several weekends in September as a line of dancers clad in hot-pink dresses snaked their way up the thoroughfare singing in unison an odd ditty about consumerism.
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October 5, 2010People are still outraged over Marc Jacobs's mostly nude ad for his perfume BANG, which has the buff designer oiled like a salad spoon while holding an oversized package to cover his oversized package.
And the more they carry on about how vulgar it all is, the more the ad works!
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September 14, 2010All photos by Stacey AndersonThis season, Marc Jacobs recalled melancholic, Taxi Driver-era Jodie Foster with his eponymous line, but he took off Tuesday afternoon to play in the sand. His younger diffusion line, Marc by Marc Jacobs, surprised ready-to-wear loyalists with sharp strides away f ... More >>
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May 25, 2010The perennial fashion question -- "Should I wear heels or flats with these pants?" -- isn't just for women anymore, reports the Daily News. Oh yay. (Is that really the perennial fashion question? We always thought it was "Does my butt look fat in these jeans?" But moving on to the horror in q ... More >>
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May 17, 2010If you're going to come to New York to work in fashion, you should probably know the difference between cocaine and anthrax. It's that simple. Via Page Six, an employee of NYC fashion megastar Marc Jacobs didn't, as she received a package that had powder in it, thought it was Anthrax, called ... More >>
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April 15, 2010Vanishing New York
It's 3:40, have you found something to bitch about today? No?! Well how about this: Marc Jacobs bought out beloved West Village bookstore Biography Book Shop to build... another bookstore. A better bookstore. A Marc Jacobs bookstore. Racked reports that the designer's new outpost, ... More >>
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March 16, 2010Meet New York's fashion icon
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March 12, 2010Scans courtesy Butt MagazineLorenzo Martone is the charming 30-year-old Brazilian who's design superstar Marc Jacobs' love partner (he's sort of the original Jesus Luz, but not really).
And he's showing it all--and telling all--in the new issue of the rough and readable Butt magazine.
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October 22, 2009You can't get any more designer-delicious than this madly stylish little house, all covered in Louis Vuitton logos as if it were a fabulous rash. And it looks perfectly legit, not like the knockoff shit you get on Canal Street!
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May 6, 2009The Costume Institute's latest exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum is "The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion," sponsored by Marc Jacobs. The outlandish exhibition captures the evolution of fashion models from the last half of the 20th century while also delving into fashion photography, clothing, and ... More >>
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April 22, 2009Reflecting on what makes supermodels so super
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February 12, 2009
A beat-up white sports car cryptically appeared late this afternoon in the Marc Jacobs store for women at the corner of West 11th and Bleecker in the West Village. Nobody cares what they're trying to sell, but everybody's wondering (a knot of curious bystanders instantly appeared on the stree ... More >>
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December 31, 2008An art show and a new Louis Vuitton line? Heavenly.
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November 5, 2008Playing dress-up is actually a profession
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March 25, 2008Tidbits that will make you rise again
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March 4, 2008NYC Life
December 11, 2007Your goal? Give cheaply, rather than spend dumbly
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September 18, 2007Anna Sui, others sue Forever 21: How original are you?
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March 27, 2007Styles come and go, but the glamour of drugs endures
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November 1, 2005Century 21: Brooklyn's Best Kept Secret?
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February 8, 2005The search for cool, beyond Bryant Park
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September 14, 2004Whoever wins in November, Republican looks swept the Fashion Week runways
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February 19, 2002The Fall 2002 Fashion Shows
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June 19, 2001American Fashion Awards Itself
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