Marc Jacobs Quotes

Any opportunity to adorn oneself is human, and accessories are an easy way to do it.

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.

Art critics are like every other critic.

I don't find clothes sexy at all. I find people sexy.

I used to buy good shoes, now I buy good bags. They make me feel more confident.

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

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.

I go to the gym every morning for a couple of hours, then I come to work, whatever is on the plate for the day, I do it. I don't ask many questions, I go where I am told to.

There is never a wrong time for a polka dot.

It's sometimes said that I'm rebellious and I do things to push people's buttons, but I just like the challenge.

I love my life. I can't believe I work in New York and Paris. That I work for Louis Vuitton. That I work for Marc Jacobs. It seems really weird every time I say my full name - like, that's me, and every time I hear the receptionist say my name, it's still weird.

Happy, happy fashion. There is not much more to it than that.

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.

I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting.

I don’t throw cell phones. I don’t hurt people, I only hurt myself.

Life is a fashion show, the world is your runway.

The best dresses are like t-shirts - you just put them on and forget about them.

I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever.

For so many years, I felt so insecure, so inferior, and I still have those moments, but I have a newfound confidence since I got in shape and changed my diet.

I always say I lived my life with my grandmother. She was emotionally stable, and she was very encouraging to me.

Change is a great and horrible thing, and people love it or hate it at the same time. Without change, however, you just don't move.

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.

Grunge is a hippied romantic version of punk.

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

It's funny because every time I go to a shoot, and I have clothes on, they inevitably come off. I just did one recently and the stylist was like, "So..." and you just know that they are going to get to the point where they say "Can you take your clothes off?"

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.

I love to design for women, it's really open and very free. I always think of my friends. I think of both fictitious characters, real people from the past and the present. I am not a woman, but I find women so beautiful and so fascinating.

Fashion is just something money can buy. People who are stylish are free and have no fear in staying true to themselves. Plus, style is infinitely more interesting.

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.

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.

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.

We live in a world where people are really hungry for information, and they're not hungry for information on subjects that they're not interested in.

A lot of models achieve that kind of iconic position by working primarily with one photographer.

Awkwardness gives me great comfort. I've never been cool, but I've felt cool. I've been in the cool place, but I wasn't really cool - I was trying to pass for hip or cool. It's the awkwardness that's nice.

The thing I most love and hate about fashion is that it changes all the time. But I don't think I or anyone else can singlehandedly get rid of hooker style. Popular taste isn't great by definition. It's just popular.

Makeup is the finishing touch, the final accessory.

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

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

You can never please everyone, and I think it's best not to.

The Louis Vuitton woman is more about a quality - a quality within some women that needs to come forward, to be noticed and recognised.

I am Marc Jacobs by birth, but we are Marc Jacobs by the company that we built.

I don't think there is ever a wrong time for a polka dot.

I'd like to believe that the women who wear my clothes are not dressing for other people, that they're wearing what they like and what suits them. It's not a status thing.

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.

One thing that is exciting about fashion is the surprise element. People don't know what they want. They just know when they see it.

To me, clothing is a form of self-expression - there are hints about who you are in what you wear.

I always wanted to be a fashion designer so I just have to remember that as long as I'm doing it I'm living the dream.

It's so weird how scary it is at the beginning of rehab, and then you bond with the people, and it's really an amazing experience. It is impossible to do it on your own, and it's good to ask for help when we need it.