Marc Jacobs' Inspirations

inside Marc Jacobs' studio

Marc Jacobs’ brain is feed on art, fashion, music and encounters.

Contemporary Art:

American contemporary artists

Elisabeth Peyton

who depict people's inner lives with a strange beauty

Steven Sprouse (graffiti bag)

Richard Prince

Rachel Feinstein

Jeff Koons

Jeffrey Deitch

Damien Hirst

Martin Kippenberger

video work of T.J. Wilcox

Edward Gorey

Japanese artists:

Takashi Murakami村上龍

Marc Jacobs did a collaboration project with Murakami for LV.

Yayoi Kasama草間彌生

Art Auctions:

After fashion show he regenerates his creative strength by watch contemporary art works, go to auctions and building up his art collection and prepare for his next fashion collection.

Encounters, Friends

Sofia Coppolar

Marc Jocob's best friend and muse, Sofia Coppola.
"She is young and sweet and beautiful," Marc Jacobs has said. "The epitome of this girl I fantasize of."
On set, Coppola sports a tomboy's jeans and designer sweaters; off, she wears girlish clothes that perfectly suit her gamine-like frame—baby-doll dresses, ballerina flats, and when the Academy calls, a Marc Jacobs column gown.

Movies

the gothic oeuvre of director Tim Burton

video work of T.J. Wilcox

(This Season)September 2005

the sullen Violet Parr from the Incredibles

Music

Fans

Bryan Boy—Marc designed a handbag name after his super fans called the BB bag.

www.bryanboy.com/

Grunge Look:

Miscellaneous:

He has a habit of asking everything in multiple colours. Thus, every pair of shorts and jackets appear at least in six different colours, but not all would be shown.

Inspired by macaroons, Yayoi Kasama’s polka dots, bottle tops or even plates; he and his design team were laying pastel leather dots on a bag model for hours to examining the design.

Quotes of Fashion Statements by Marc:

Jacobs isn't looking for deeper resonances to his new Edward Gorey vision. "It's just what turns me on," he says. "I am not waking up, reading The New York Times, and then putting that into my collections. I am not holding up a mirror to the world. I don't believe that's what fashion is about. It's about fantasy."

…. "Oh, I always think it's silly to talk about themes and inspirations," said Jacobs with engaging frankness. "The collection's just always about this youthful, angelic, idyllic army. It's comprised of a lot of things—big plaids, layered woolliness, gangly stockings—but really, it's all about how people will break it down and wear it in their own way."

References:

Bibliography for "Marc Jacobs: what's art? What's fashion? A business artist blurs the boundaries"

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1285/is_5_38/ai_n25470231

Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton

http://www.amazon.com/Marc-Jacobs-Louis-Vuitton-Full/dp/B00104Z8DO

Style.com

American Vogue September 2005

Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton (2007)

http://www.amazon.com/Marc-Jacobs-Louis-Vuitton-Full/dp/B00104Z8DO

Bridget Foley (2004). Marc Jacobs. New York: Absouline.