Marc Jacobs Quotes

Life is a fashion show, the world is your runway.

There is never a wrong time for a polka dot.

I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it.

Young girls need to learn that sexiness isn't about being naked.

Fashion is just something money can buy.

People who are stylish are free and have no fear in staying true to themselves. Plus, style is infinitely more interesting.

I don't think there is ever a wrong time for a polka dot.

Fashion is such a fairytale and it is such a fantasy.

And it's about metamorphosis and sort of changing yourself and playing a part that you want people to see.

Sometimes I miss hamburgers, I should say that. I miss the tuna pizzas at Mercer Kitchen.

I am a perfect being in a perfect world.

Makeup is the finishing touch, the final accessory.

I like to make things. I like making choices, choosing colours, evoking a spirit, a change.

I love attention, I'm very honest about it ... [but] if I wanna wear a pink dress or a lace dress or a kilt of whatever, it's like I'm not solely doing it for attention, I'm doing it first for myself because it gives me pleasure.

For so many years, I felt so insecure, so inferior, and I still have those moments, but I have a newfound confidence since I got in shape and changed my diet.

I love to take things that are everyday and comforting and make them into the most luxurious things in the world.

Staring up at the sky on a bright, sunny day makes me dream and gives me ideas.

I used to buy good shoes, now I buy good bags. They make me feel more confident.

You don`t have the same reaction to a girl walking around the street today in a nightgown and a vintage coat and sneakers, that you did six years ago.

I like spending time at home. In Paris, people drop by and have a bite to eat, or they drop by and watch Friends on TV. I take my dog to the office there, and I walk to work sometimes.

I find people sexy, and I find personalities fascinating and sexy and appealing and charming. So a sexy girl wrapped in a sheet is a sexy girl, and an un-sexy girl in a low-cut dress is still an un-sexy girl.

That was a time when I did love music, I couldn't get enough of what was going on. Maybe it was Nirvana that brought me back. I guess it was a comfort because something that sounded so right - and non-commercial - had become so influential, so immediately.

It just seemed too weird to me. I don't know, maybe they were smoking a joint in the car downstairs from their parents' apartment. I had to go that far to put together a scenario of how they could have possibly recognized me.

I don't think, 'Gee, I'd like to dress this person.' There was a picture in Us magazine. It was a jersey dress, and Courtney Love was wearing it. I have this thing about Courtney Love, this funny worship.

I remember walking the dog one day, I saw a car full of teenage girls, and one of them rolled down the window and yelled, 'Marc Jacobs!' in a French accent.

I said, 'Okay, it's the year 2000, I'm getting a computer and a Palm Pilot.' I know how to check my e-mail, and I've listed some phone numbers on it. Half the time the battery has gone out so I can't use it.

It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people.

Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time.

I love to design for women, it's really open and very free. I always think of my friends. I think of both fictitious characters, real people from the past and the present. I am not a woman, but I find women so beautiful and so fascinating.

Sofia is so active, and she made The Virgin Suicides, which I thought was great - all these things are inspiring to me, not in terms of creating a particular dress, but just in terms of knowing that there is this type of woman out there.

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

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

Art critics are like every other critic.

Creativity in any form stimulates creativity in every form, music, arts, literature... I find inspiration in anything. It's all the same.

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

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.

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

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.

When I was starting out, it seemed like there were so many girls who were known by their first names, who were unique, who all had idiosyncrasies and characteristics that made them individual. Those girls stuck around; you'd work with them season after season. But now it's completely different.

Happy, happy fashion. There is not much more to it than that.

Even mistakes can get you one step further.

What's worked for me is not quitting and being passionate about what I do and not giving up - and when I don't believe in myself, turning to others who believe in me.

I think of many people and no one as a muse. I love the way Sofia looks always, and I love the way Kim looks always. Fashion may be part of their world, but it's not their whole life. It's not everything.

I still appreciate individuality. Style is much more interesting than fashion, really.

Awkwardness gives me great comfort.

I create the concept, which for me is about deciding upon the right girl and the right 'spirit', and thinking of all the things that visually describe her. It's just like putting together a fashion show; for me, that starts with the spirit and the girls as well.

My mind absorbs things in a funny way. I'm on planes quite a bit and I always take stacks and stacks of magazines and I go through them and tear pages out and fold them up, and they get stuck at the bottom of my backpack or whatever.

I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect, because that’s natural and that’s real.

I like the sort of 'nothingness' of the jeans and the T-shirt. I feel that's about as close as I can get to the future because it seems like something so old that will always be, so I feel it's a safe bet for the future.

I envy the people who go to Paris the first time

I'd like to believe that the women who wear my clothes are not dressing for other people, that they're wearing what they like and what suits them. It's not a status thing.