NYC January 10, 2012
Marc Jacobs has laid to rest rumours that he was to move to Christian Dior to replace John Galliano. “It’s a great honour to be considered, and Mr Arnault is a super intelligent man and a very smart man and it was certainly a very great honour for him to know that I was capable – and not only capable but that I am someone that he would have wanted for the job. But I am very happy to be here. There is so much more left to do and building Louis Vuitton into a fashion company is something nobody else can say they really started.”
A major exhibition opens on March 9 at the Musée des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, called simply ‘Louis Vuitton – Marc Jacobs’, spread over two floors, each one devoted to the life and work of each man.
“It’s a really great honour,’ Jacobs states.. ”It’s going to be a super animated, really great exhibition. I’m really proud of everyone here, proud for everyone here. As a New Yorker, I love Paris and I never in my wildest dreams as a teenager dreamed I would have a job working for this big luxury company. Now 15 years on, there is this thing at the Musée des Arts Decoratifs at the Louvre – it is really beyond my wildest dreams. It makes me very emotional – in a good way.” The show promises to show off some of the jewels of the Louis Vuitton archive, from one of the first trunks made in 1869 by Monsieur Louis Vuitton himself, though the main attraction will no doubt be the work Marc Jacobs has done to transform the luxury brand into a fashion powerhouse since joining the company on Jan 7, 1997.
