Left: Marcel Duchamp's L.H.O.O.Q., 1919, one of Jacob's favourite paintings.
Right: detail from Louis Vuitton runway, Fall 2004
Does he inspire by the painting?
Marc Jacobs is known for his sartorial fashion interpretations of trends in contemporary art.
The story begins where there’s one day in 2002, Jacobs was distractedly flipping through a christie’s auction catalog when he came across Kilimnik’s Mary Calling Up a Stone 1996, a portrait of a dark-haired young woman. For some reason, the canvas called out to the designer. Who’d never purchased a work of art before. Soon he’s travelling to international art fairs. Befriending dealers and artists. 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." Marc Jacobs’ brain is feed on art, fashion, music and encounters. Some Marc Jacobs' favourite Contemporary Artist: American contemporary artists
- Elisabeth Peyton ---who depict people's inner lives with a strange beauty
Portraits of Sofia Coppolar and Marc Jacobs by Elizabeth Peyton, you can see the close relationship between the designer, his friend and the artist.
- Steven Sprouse (graffiti bag)
- Richard Prince
- Rachel Feinstein
- Jeff Koons
- Jeffrey Deitch
- Damien Hirst
- Martin Kippenberger
- video work of T.J. Wilcox
- Edward Gorey
- Yayoi Kasama草間彌生
- Takashi Murakami村上隆
Teamed up with Japanese artist Takashi Murakami to produce the accessories for the spring–summer 2003 collection of Louis Vuitton.
Together with Murakami, Jacobs produced “eye love,” a collection of handbags that merged Vuitton’s traditional monogrammatic canvas—its beige and brown motif that included shapes of diamonds, stars, and flowers along with the company’s initials, LV—with Murakami’s modern, colourful pop-art graphics.
The “eye love” handbags became instant collector’s items.
Together with Murakami, Jacobs produced “eye love,” a collection of handbags that merged Vuitton’s traditional monogrammatic canvas—its beige and brown motif that included shapes of diamonds, stars, and flowers along with the company’s initials, LV—with Murakami’s modern, colourful pop-art graphics.
The “eye love” handbags became instant collector’s items.
Here is a video about Jacobs' Craze for contemporary art
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
On the cover of Interview magazine, Marc Jacobs, styled to look like Warhol. So, is Jacobs appropriating popular culture and turning it into fashion, as Warhol turned popular culture into art? Jacobs plays this down: "I'm just me. I do my thing," he says. "Who cares what the references are? I hate references, they're boring. If a girl wants to wear it, then it's valid.
It is said that Marc Jacobs' living room is accented fluffy white life-size sculpture of a sheep (the work of Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne) … From where he was sitting on the sofa, Jacobs could see works of art by Andy Warhol, Francis Picabia, Georges Braque, John Currin, Elizabeth Peyton, David Hockney, Ed Ruscha, and Richard Prince.
Owing to his craze on Contemporary Art, we can always see his influence from contemporary art on LV, Marc Jacobs and Marc by Marc Jacobs' collections as well!
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