85+ Marc Jacobs Quotes On Fashion, Creative And Luxurious

Marc Jacobs is an iconic American fashion designer. He is the head designer for his own fashion label, Marc Jacobs, as well as the Creative Director of French fashion house Louis Vuitton. He is known for his innovative and eclectic designs, which often feature a mix of classic and modern elements. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Marc Jacobs on life, fashion, creative.

Top 10 Marc Jacobs Quotes

1. To me, clothing is a form of self-expression - there are hints about who you are in what you wear.
2. Life is a fashion show, the world is your runway.
3. There is never a wrong time for a polka dot.
4. I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it.
5. Young girls need to learn that sexiness isn't about being naked.
6. 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.
7. I don't think there is ever a wrong time for a polka dot.
8. 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.
9. Sometimes I miss hamburgers, I should say that. I miss the tuna pizzas at Mercer Kitchen.
10. I am a perfect being in a perfect world.

Marc Jacobs Short Quotes

• Makeup is the finishing touch, the final accessory.
• I like to make things. I like making choices, choosing colours, evoking a spirit, a change.
• Staring up at the sky on a bright, sunny day makes me dream and gives me ideas.
• Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time.
• The best dresses are like t-shirts - you just put them on and forget about them.
• You can never please everyone, and I think it's best not to.
• I am Marc Jacobs by birth, but we are Marc Jacobs by the company that we built.
• I'm not good at hiding my feelings. I'm also not good at lying. I'm very open about everything.
• It's the things that aren't accepted as conventionally beautiful that I find more attractive.
• Sex is always good, isn't it? Well, actually it's not always good, but it's always a good thing.

Marc Jacobs Quotes About Life

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. — Marc Jacobs

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. — Marc Jacobs

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. — Marc Jacobs

Marc Jacobs Quotes About Fashion

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

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. — Marc Jacobs

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. — Marc Jacobs

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. — Marc Jacobs

I don't believe in fashion dictatorship, and I find that anybody who follows the dictates of fashion is a bit lost. I'm excited by style, not so much by fashion. — Marc Jacobs

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

Fashion isn't a necessity. It pulls at your heart. It's a whim. You don't need it. You want it. — Marc Jacobs

I don't find clothes sexy at all. I find people sexy. — Marc Jacobs

The thing I most love and hate about fashion is that it changes all the time. But I don't think I or anyone else can singlehandedly get rid of hooker style. Popular taste isn't great by definition. It's just popular. — Marc Jacobs

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

Marc Jacobs Quotes About Creative

I'm a designer. I make clothes and bags and shoes. I have a job that involves making creative choices, but I'm not a divinely inspired human being like an artist! — Marc Jacobs

When you design a dress you ask yourself, would woman like it or no. It's much more of a creative process, not a research or trying to make somethings that sells or appeals. I hope that it will appeal to somebody, but it isn't what drives me. — Marc Jacobs

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

Let's do what we love and do a lot of it. — Marc Jacobs

Marc Jacobs Quotes About Love

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. — Marc Jacobs

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

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. — Marc Jacobs

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. — Marc Jacobs

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. — Marc Jacobs

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

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? — Marc Jacobs

Sometimes there are two very opposite directions, and we go with the stronger one at the end. It's an impulse thing, like, 'Oh, I love both so much, but it's got to be one or the other because the two don't work together.' — Marc Jacobs

Marc Jacobs Quotes About People

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. — Marc Jacobs

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. — Marc Jacobs

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

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

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. — Marc Jacobs

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. — Marc Jacobs

I envy the people who go to Paris the first time — Marc Jacobs

It's so weird how scary it is at the beginning of rehab, and then you bond with the people, and it's really an amazing experience. It is impossible to do it on your own, and it's good to ask for help when we need it. — Marc Jacobs

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. — Marc Jacobs

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. — Marc Jacobs

Marc Jacobs Quotes About Work

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

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. — Marc Jacobs

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. — Marc Jacobs

Marc Jacobs Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Marc Jacobs

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. — Marc Jacobs

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. — Marc Jacobs

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. — Marc Jacobs

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. — Marc Jacobs

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. — Marc Jacobs

Art critics are like every other critic. — Marc Jacobs

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. — Marc Jacobs

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. — Marc Jacobs

Even mistakes can get you one step further. — Marc Jacobs

Awkwardness gives me great comfort. — Marc Jacobs

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. — Marc Jacobs

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. — Marc Jacobs

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

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. — Marc Jacobs

One thing that is exciting about fashion is the surprise element. People don't know what they want. They just know when they see it. — Marc Jacobs

I always find it kind of embarrassing, kind of funny, and kind of exciting. In New York I'm recognized a lot, although nobody says anything. You know, they stare at you just a second too long. But in Paris it's not as commonplace to be recognized. — Marc Jacobs

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. — Marc Jacobs

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! — Marc Jacobs

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. — Marc Jacobs

Luxury is about pleasing yourself, not dressing for other people — Marc Jacobs

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. — Marc Jacobs

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. — Marc Jacobs

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. — Marc Jacobs

Cigarettes and chocolate milk shakes are two amazing things. — Marc Jacobs

I can remember years ago, when Kate Moss first came around and there were so many articles. Everyone was saying that it was heroin chic - that she was a waif, that she was anorexic. But Kate would eat just as much as anybody I knew - the media had just turned her into this thing. It must be really, really hard when you're the object of that. — Marc Jacobs

It's funny because every time I go to a shoot, and I have clothes on, they inevitably come off. I just did one recently and the stylist was like, "So..." and you just know that they are going to get to the point where they say "Can you take your clothes off?" — Marc Jacobs

Life Lessons by Marc Jacobs

1. Marc Jacobs has taught us to be bold and creative when it comes to fashion design, pushing the boundaries of what is considered fashionable.
2. He has also shown us the importance of staying true to your own unique style, no matter what trends are popular at the moment.
3. Finally, Jacobs has demonstrated the value of collaboration, working with other designers and artists to create unique and innovative pieces.