Jacobs
Unleashed
MARC JACOBS loves
to smoke - "smoking's the best! Smoking and sleeping are the two best
things in the world" - but he hates people talking about when he was a
"fat heroin addict," mostly because it's totally inaccurate.
"That was the stupidest thing I
ever heard," he said, "because first of all I was never a fat heroin
addict, I was a skinny heroin addict - and I got over that luckily. I was fat
when I stopped doing
drugs, not while I was doing drugs. I don't know anyone who's fat when they're
doing drugs."
He also gamely acknowledges that
consumers have no need to buy his creations for his own label or for Louis Vuitton -
but do so for the same reason that he'd like a private jet: luxury.
"Luxury is anything you don't
need, right?" he told Germany'sInterview magazine. "I mean you need food,
water, clothing, shelter… but good wine, good food, beautiful interiors, nice
clothes; those aren't necessities, they are luxuries - it's all luxury. I mean,
I'd love to have a private jet - I know people who fly by private jet all the
time… I've hitched a ride a few times and it is not overrated at all; it's a
great way to travel!"
He also revealed all about working with
his now-friend Victoria Beckham on an advertising campaign for his
label in 2008, long before she launched her eponymous brand.
"Victoria would never have been
the type of person that I think anyone would have thought of as our
customer," Jacobs said. "[She] liked the idea very much and was
totally into it so I said to Juergen Teller: 'Let's treat her like she's a kind of
product.' Because she is, she's created herself… And the first image you saw
was just her legs coming out of a shopping bag."
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