Marc Jacobs was born on April 9, 1963 in New York city. He went to Parsons school of design. His first job in fashion was at a clothing boutique called Charivari and he worked as a stock boy there. At his graduation he won the Perry Ellis Gold thimble award as well as design student of the year. He is the youngest designer that has won the Council of Fashion Designers of America Perry Ellis award for new fashion talent. He started designing womens wear for Perry Ellis which got him another CFDA award but this time for womens wear designer of the year. Then he created a grunge look collection but Perry Ellis company did not like it. He then left to start the Marc Jacobs label and it became successful. He then became the creative director of Louis Vuitton. He made their first ready to wear line which was successful with that and his own label as well.
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