Hi, my name is Margo Renee Hutchinson and I love Marc Jacobs. When one gets to know me they would find out that if I had to chose a role model for me in the fashion world, I say before one can finish the question; Marc Jacobs!
So when I read that there was a documentary done on the designer I immediately tried to track it down through the internet. The documentary was first featured on french TV and is now being sold on DVD. The problem is that it was not easy to find, it was only being sold on the internet. Luckily, Barnes & Nobles was able to order it to their store for me to pick up, and within 3 days and $30 bucks later it was in my hands. As soon as I made it home after work, I settled down in bed, laptop in lap and got to see the work before the runway.
Marc Jacobs I think loosened the corset of fashion. He gave the elegance a rebellion and he loves to idea of making things look worn and old just like I do. He is the only fashion designer that plays The Dead Kennedys "California Uber Allias" as his model walk down the runway and at another show have Sonic Youth preform as models paraded around them. He not only creates his for label, but he works as creative director for Louis Vuitton. He is the Chanel of out time and he loves what he does and with all the sucess his has had, his ego has not gotten to big.
"If I continue to do what I love then I am sucessful" he says to an artist in Tokyo as they sit and talk about their views on life are thier work. To see one man work to two labels is amazing because it seems that he is so in tune to what he is doing and never gets to overwhelmed. He also realies on others opinions such as his assitant Joeseph who helps bring his creations to life. The enviorment does not seem cold and like a sweat shop. It is all done by hands in both of the lines he works for and you get to see Marc himself on his knees pinning fabric and pressing fabirc (vocab lesson: Pressing in the fashion world and sewing world means ironing the fabric. )
The director behind this documentary is frenchman Loic Prigent gives the viewer a fun and funny view of Marcs work and how different the Marc Jacobs label it from Louis Vuitton. In Marc's own label, it is more laid back and a smaller enviorment where people are close and mark can be seen wearing cargos and a Fleetwood Mac shirt to a zip-up that says 'look better naked'. As Marc's label is in New York, Louis Vuitton is in France and the enviorment is more protected and strict where mark i dress a bit more formal.
Not only does it show the fun creation of Marc's clothing, but it also shows the more extreme side when outfits do not work out and that within the last day or two before the show. No one is sleeping and everything is so hectic that even as i watched them race the clock and make sure to get a jacket done only moments before the show, I could feel the aydrenaline rush and wised I was there and under that type of pressure. Marc has become such a big deal in the fashion world and it is obvious why. He work is somewhat rebellious compared to the other works done by designers.
His work is inspired by other artist such as Steven Sprouse who collaborated with Marc on a graffiti LV bag and also Takashi Morakami on a bag with the colorful LV logo. The best thing to see in the documentary is an idea to take all the LV bags from the past and put them together and make one bag called the 'cubist' bag. To watch the back go from a bunch of material on a paper to a real bag is so amazing and the hard work it took to make a bag from various materials (they broke some of thier sewing machines to make the bag)
Marc Jacobs is a pure joy to watch work and to see his mind work and get to know what a life is like for a fashion designer.
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