Marc Jacobs famous quotes

To me, clothing is a form of self-expression - there are hints about who you are in what you wear.
-- Marc Jacobs

#Fashion #Self #Expression

The attention toward me is basically because of what we've built as a company. If we built a pile of crap then nobody would care what I ate for lunch.
-- Marc Jacobs

#Care #Attention #Crap

I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting.
-- Marc Jacobs

#Fashion #Perfect #Interesting

We live in a world where people are really hungry for information, and they're not hungry for information on subjects that they're not interested in.
-- Marc Jacobs

#People #World #Hungry

You can never please everyone, and I think it's best not to.
-- Marc Jacobs

#Thinking #Please

To be useful to others and to be useful to myself is definitely a better place to be.
-- Marc Jacobs

I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect, because that’s natural and that’s real.
-- Marc Jacobs

#Life #Real #Expression

A sellout is putting your name on any piece of crap and then expecting people to buy it because it's got your name on it. That's what a sellout is to me.
-- Marc Jacobs

#People #Expecting #Crap

Young girls need to learn that sexiness isn’t about being naked,
-- Marc Jacobs

#Girl #Naked #Needs

There is never a wrong time for a polka dot.
-- Marc Jacobs

#Dots #Polka #Polka Dots

One thing that is exciting about fashion is the surprise element. People don't know what they want. They just know when they see it.
-- Marc Jacobs

#Fashion #People #Elements

Change is a great and horrible thing, and people love it or hate it at the same time. Without change, however, you just don't move.
-- Marc Jacobs

#Hate #Moving #People

Clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them.
-- Marc Jacobs

#Fashion #Mean #Clothes

Awkwardness gives me great comfort. I've never been cool, but I've felt cool. I've been in the cool place, but I wasn't really cool - I was trying to pass for hip or cool. It's the awkwardness that's nice.
-- Marc Jacobs

#Nice #Giving #Trying

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!
-- Marc Jacobs

#Mean #People #Way

Life is a fashion show, the world is your runway.
-- Marc Jacobs

#Fashion #World #Life Is

I'd like to believe that the women who wear my clothes are not dressing for other people, that they're wearing what they like and what suits them. It's not a status thing.
-- Marc Jacobs

#Fashion #Believe #Clothes

Let's do what we love and do a lot of it.
-- Marc Jacobs

It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people.
-- Marc Jacobs

#Nice #Two #Europe

We don't need fashion to survive, we just desire it so much.
-- Marc Jacobs

#Fashion #Desire #Needs

Any opportunity to adorn oneself is human, and accessories are an easy way to do it.
-- Marc Jacobs

#Opportunity #Accessories #Way

I find people sexy, and I find personalities fascinating and sexy and appealing and charming. So a sexy girl wrapped in a sheet is a sexy girl, and an un-sexy girl in a low-cut dress is still an un-sexy girl.
-- Marc Jacobs

#Girl #Sexy #Cutting

Anyone who thinks designers don't talk to editors, and editors don't talk to stores doesn't know what's happening...It's called crossover, sampling all references in music, art and fashion.
-- Marc Jacobs

#Fashion #Art #Thinking

Sometimes I miss hamburgers, I should say that. I miss the tuna pizzas at Mercer Kitchen.
-- Marc Jacobs

#Missing #Kitchen #Tuna

I like the sort of 'nothingness' of the jeans and the T-shirt. I feel that's about as close as I can get to the future because it seems like something so old that will always be, so I feel it's a safe bet for the future.
-- Marc Jacobs

#Jeans #Safe #T Shirt

I think there is something about luxury - it's not something people need, but it's what they want. It really pulls at their heart.
-- Marc Jacobs

#Heart #Thinking #Luxury

Fashion is such a fairytale and it is such a fantasy. And it's about metamorphosis and sort of changing yourself and playing a part that you want people to see.
-- Marc Jacobs

#Fashion #People #Fairytale

What's worked for me is not quitting and being passionate about what I do and not giving up - and when I don't believe in myself, turning to others who believe in me.
-- Marc Jacobs

#Giving Up #Life Changing #Believe

I don't think there is ever a wrong time for a polka dot.
-- Marc Jacobs

#Thinking #Dots #Polka

I think scent is sensual. I guess evoking a mood or a spirit is key, and I think with the women's fragrances we have evoked different types, moods or sensibilities of a woman - whether it's Daisy with the sweetness and the innocence or Lola which is more provocative, sexy and sultry.
-- Marc Jacobs

#Sexy #Thinking #Keys

I used to buy good shoes, now I buy good bags. They make me feel more confident.
-- Marc Jacobs

#Fashion #Shoes #Bags

Even mistakes can get you one step further.
-- Marc Jacobs

#Mistake #Steps

But the customer is the final, final filter. What survives the whole process is what people wear. I'm not interested in making clothes that end up in some dusty museum.
-- Marc Jacobs

#Educational #Clothes #Museums

It's the things that aren't accepted as conventionally beautiful that I find more attractive.
-- Marc Jacobs

#Beautiful #Accepted #Attractive

I love to take things that are everyday and comforting and make them into the most luxurious things in the world.
-- Marc Jacobs

#Comforting #Everyday #World

I still appreciate individuality. Style is much more interesting than fashion, really.
-- Marc Jacobs

#Fashion #Appreciate #Interesting

Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time.
-- Marc Jacobs

#Thought Provoking #Innovation #Process

For so many years, I felt so insecure, so inferior, and I still have those moments, but I have a newfound confidence since I got in shape and changed my diet.
-- Marc Jacobs

#Insecure #Years #Shapes

Makeup is the finishing touch, the final accessory.
-- Marc Jacobs

#Makeup #Finishing #Finals

Fashion isn't a necessity. It pulls at your heart. It's a whim. You don't need it. You want it.
-- Marc Jacobs

#Fashion #Heart #Needs

Fashion is just something money can buy. People who are stylish are free and have no fear in staying true to themselves. Plus, style is infinitely more interesting.
-- Marc Jacobs

#Fashion #People #Interesting