Marc Jacobs is now 48 years old. His first job in the boutique «Charivari» he received at the age of 15 years. Even before finish «Parsons School ° F Design», the young designer was able to sell quite successful first collection of sweaters own design. However, it is worth noting that the first full collection of clothes Jacobs first created for the company «Reuben Thomas». Next, a talented fashion designer began collaborating with «Perry Ellis», but it so happened that in 1993 he had to resign. Then Robert Duffy suggested Mark to create their own clothing company «Jacobs Duffy Designs»
In 1993, Jacobs was first introduced to the public world style "grunge". The foundation of this collection is the "old" sweaters with stretched neck, army boots and dress in flower. This created a furor, but pay a few thousand dollars for the "old" things the audience did not want to.
In 1997, the designer took a job in a «Louis Vuitton» for the position of creative director. For the first time in his career, Mark has created for «Louis Vuitton» line of ready-made garments.
Currently, Mark is trying to attract custom entity as models for advertising, moving away from the existing stereotypes. That is how in 2007 he to alter the size of a collection of children's and ordered a miniature model of the young Dakota Fanning shoes.
Marc Jacobs is not limited to clothing. Currently in the "marc by Marc Jacobs" in New York City they opened stationer's shop, where a special collection includes cupboards, paper clips, letter sets, and so on. In the arsenal of Mark 7 famous awards, cooperation with many famous companies and designers and a lot of plans for the future