To promote his new men’s fragrance, Bang (“I like the sexual innuendo of it,” Jacobs said - photo above) he again posed nude, this time with his naked thighs splayed around an enormous bottle of the scent.Īt a talk at Manhattan’s 92Y earlier this year, Jacobs confessed, “I love attention.
In 2009 Jacobs dressed Muppets diva Miss Piggy in a custom stone-studded, black taffeta evening gown for her appearance at Macy’s Glamorama party. In 2007 he posed nude on the cover of Out, the gay monthly magazine. That same year he designed ballet costumes for Amoveo, with music by Philip Glass, which debuted at the Opéra Garnier in Paris.
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He topped that in 2006 when he posed with long-time business partner Robert Duffy in the buff for Protect Your Largest Organ T-shirts, sold to benefit skin cancer. In 1989 Jacobs posed for Vanity Fair magazine wearing nothing but his signature motorcycle boots and a yellow sheet. In 2010 he was ranked as one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World” by Time magazine, and in 2012 Out magazine declared him one of the “50 most powerful gay men and women in America.” France named him a “Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres,” an award whose purpose is “the recognition of significant contributions to the arts, literature, or the propagation of these fields.” Jacobs sells his products – clothing, perfumes and luxury accessories (notably handbags that sell for thousands of dollars) – from more than 200 stores in 80 countries. The reason for his departure? To concentrate on his own work. During the first decade of Jacob’s tenure with Louis Vuitton, business at the couture house quadrupled. A restless spirit, Jacobs has just announced his departure as the creative director of the iconic French brand Louis Vuitton, a post he held for more than 15 years. The chubby, long-haired nerdy Jewish kid in glasses has transformed himself into a gym-buffed jet setter who hob-nobs with the rich and famous, all the while collecting serious art (Georges Braque, Andy Warhol, David Hockney). A private chef tends the kitchen of his Parisian home that sports a knock-out view of the Eiffel Tower. The former stock boy is today worth well over 100 million dollars. His New York office is adorned by a framed cartoon of a woman selling her soul to the devil for tickets to a Marc Jacobs runway show. Jacobs (photo at right by Ed Kavishe) eats it up. When he gets a new tattoo, enters or exits rehab, takes up with another ex-prostitute or ex-porn-star boyfriend, the paparazzi are there in force. He’s not just a famous designer, he’s a celebrity whose personal life fills the gossip columns, and he likes it that way. Other employees had complained, the suit says, including a female who was told she needed a "thicker skin" and a male who was instructed to "go home early and have a drink."Ī lawyer for Lataillade did not return calls, but a Jacobs spokeswoman said the former executive's claims are "false."A rep for Marc Jacobs says: ""Patrice Lataillade was terminated as CFO and COO of for serious matters unrelated to the allegations made in the complaint.New York born fashion designer Marc Jacobs (b. When Lataillade complained last year, the suit says, he got axed in retaliation from the firm where he had worked since May 1996. "He uses company funds for personal expenses and does not censor what he does." "Duffy has behaved as if he has no obligation to follow rules of conduct or the law," the suit says. You can also see what we’re up to by signing up here.įormer Marc Jacobs COO Patrice Lataillade has filed a sex discrimination suit against the company claiming that gay porn and nude photos of co-workers were on open display in the office, employees were forced to perform pole dances, and CEO Robert Duffy (in photo, left, with Jacobs) created a "hostile work environment," reports the NY Daily News. The archives will remain available here for new stories, head over to Vox.com, where our staff is covering consumer culture for The Goods by Vox. Thank you to everyone who read our work over the years.