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Who wants to go to Marc Jaccobs in Paris, must break once the Sleeping Beauty hedge his design house Louis Vuitton. The selection criteria for an interview candidates are not transparent, in any case they are not mainstream: One of the few who were admitted in recent years, there are two gay magazines, the American magazine Interview, and of course the French filmmaker Loïc Prigent, the Jacobs several days in Paris was filmed.
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After several failed attempts to say one day: "Tuesday in June, 15 clock." But before the International Press Relations Director-Isabelle Capece would like to see the questions. Of course. And you want to please come a half hour earlier. Sure. Nevertheless, they would first call again. Why? Oh. So.

The Louis Vuitton headquarters, located on the 1st , Arrondissement a Belle Epoque building with a menacing monster swinging lantern over the main entrance. At the reception you are exchanging ask his identity and protest against a visitor card. And can infiltrate a large number of assistants with very long corridors. The last stops: Whether Monsieur do not want to sit down and forget all the prepared questions? The Master prefer a conversation that evolved organically. Sure.

Marc Jacobs receives me in his office with a handshake and a firm "Hello". We are cleared to the corner of a table, drink mineral water from plastic bottles. Surprise: He smokes. Chain! It seems human. And does not happen more often in the world of efficiency, discipline and aesthetic perfection.

Friendly, with a sonorous voice, he answered all the questions that still seems to surround him, a nervous tension. Perhaps because of his New York team, had just flown in working in an adjoining room at the designs for his own label, Marc Jacobs, while in the anteroom gebastelt busily transforming the image of Louis Vuitton is.

Looks like a man who dictates to the people around the world every six months and again, as they ideally should look straight? Strangely, not modern. Striking, almost a little bit dangerous. A cropped framing his bearded face crisscrossed with silver threads. The eyes are dark, black hair, and altogether his appearance reminiscent of portraits of Italian noblemen from the time of the Renaissance.

Refreshingly, he talks readily about their own vanity. He gives himself, as he says, a lot of trouble after getting up. "Before, I was not the type who needs one hours each morning in the bathroom. Today, I'm just this guy." He beams. His teeth are blitzweiß, three diamonds sparkle in the right ear with the silver lining of his silk shirt to the bet.

Marc Jacobs has invented much like Karl Lagerfeld, new two years ago. Previously, he was rather plump, wore baggy trousers and woolen sweaters. With shoulder-length hair and Derrick glasses he looked like a student self-forgetful. "Back then I did not care how I looked, because I thought that I could not change anyway."

Then came the upset stomach. Of drugs and alcohol was mentioned twice he let himself into a rehab center instruct. When he went into the hands of the Californian nutritionist Dr. Lindsey Duncan, who missed an organic diet with Power exotic berries, vitamins and protein bombs, began his metamorphosis. A daily three-hour muscle building program made sure that he certified the fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar, "the best body in business to have."

Also for Jacobs, it was a long, thorny road to Paris. "The dream I had always wanted. But it was Bernard Arnault has it enabled me 1997." Arnault is the all-powerful head of the luxury group LVMH, hiding behind its initials, Louis Vuitton and Moet Hennessy. "He believed in me. He was convinced that I could invent Louis Vuitton. Because: There were no archives of fashion or handbags or shoes, even with no sunglasses or jewelry." There was the ubiquitous name, Louis Vuitton. And Marc Jacobs' talent: "We, I and my closest colleagues, my dream team, we were the first, and we are Louis Vuitton. They can say, no one besides me in the industry."

It all began with a historic rare for the fashion event, made the Jacobs shot to fame. When, in October 1992 in New York's spring / summer collection for the 1993 American, formerly a sleepy little designer label Perry Ellis showed its chief designer, he was then, the press celebrated him as "Designer of the Year." He had been inspired by grunge, from Kurt Cobain and his band Nirvana.

Their motley scene look from the garbage bags of used clothing, more hardship than virtue ennobled, Jacobs, by the plaid flannel shirts printed on expensive cheaply made silk, which he washed out and faded, drew a sleeveless jackets over long, fluttering crepe dresses. To this end he combined striped sweaters and leggings, knit caps and Converse sneakers made of satin.

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