Marc Jacobs Quotes

I'm not a model, so the idea of modelling a suit or clothes is weird in itself.

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

We're developing things, but I don't know what we'll go with for the show, so I don't like to talk about it.

I don't see myself as being as big of an influence as other people seem to think.

Cigarettes and chocolate milk shakes are two amazing things.

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.

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

Grunge is a hippied romantic version of punk.

I always say that I'm not the director, I'm part of the team.

I go through phases where I buy only Speed Stick and Axe, and Noxzema shaving cream.

I don't know the history of art, but I got over intimidation from the art world when I realized that I was allowed to feel whatever I want and like whatever I want.

Art critics are like every other critic.

I have no problem going on record with this and probably have gone on record with this before, there aren't that many people who I respect. There just aren't.

Sephora's business is really smart and clever - I'm all for anything that gets people up and out and into the social experience of shopping.

I am really glad to be working at the profession that I love.

I envy the people who go to Paris the first time

I love the gym, but I still want to look a bit awkward at it. I don't want to look too on top of it, you know?

I'm not good at hiding my feelings. I'm also not good at lying. I'm very open about everything.

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.

Sephora is a mecca for cosmetics, and it supports what I enjoy: You go into the store, and touch it, and try it, and love it. I've never bought anything on the Internet. I like experience.

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.

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.

I think it's an old fashioned notion that fashion needs to be exclusive to be fashionable.

Awkwardness gives me great comfort.

Without any kind of real ego on my part, I just thought, I'm going to approach the people I admire and see if they want to do something together.

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

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

For people that don't have any interest in the psychology of nuance, who need everything to be in their face, who don't want to analyze... those aren't the people I romanticize about dressing.

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.

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

I think beauty is youth; it's energy. I'm attracted to imperfection, style, confidence, and experimentation. So beauty, to me, is really a lot of things. It's kind of unexpected-what surprises you.

When I started working, the big models were people like Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss. It was a time when there were models who had real personalities and individuality.

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

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.

The attention toward me is basically because of what we've built as a company. If we built a pile of crap then nobody would care what I ate for lunch.

But in another, I think a woman's going to go into a shop to find a coat or a jacket and I just don't think she's not going to go into a shop because of a bad review she probably didn't even read.

A sellout is putting your name on any piece of crap and then expecting people to buy it because it's got your name on it. That's what a sellout is to me.

I'd like to be invisible. To be anonymous and see things for what they really are. The truth may be painful but it's probably useful!

I don't need to be better than anybody or worse than anybody to feel better about myself. I just need to stick on my own path and stay in the moment as best I can.

Listen, 'real' women are the reason the fashion industry exists.

What Kate wore, whether on the street or the red carpet was much cooler to them than what she modelled. Her paparazzi photos were becoming indistinguishable from her editorials.