Explore Quotes by Marc Jacobs

For people that don't have any interest in the psychology of nuance, who need everything to be in their face, who don't want to analyze... those aren't the people I romanticize about dressing.

But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.

Basically, I'm in a kilt and a white shirt every day. So, you know, I don't have a lot of scope, and I'm really picky about what I wear. Even if it's weird, it's very particular to me. And you can't make a business out of what I would wear. We'd be out of business.

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.

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.

But in another, I think a woman's going to go into a shop to find a coat or a jacket and I just don't think she's not going to go into a shop because of a bad review she probably didn't even read.

Yes, I always remember my dad's, mom's and my grandma's perfumes.

Sometimes there are two very opposite directions, and we go with the stronger one at the end. It's an impulse thing, like, 'Oh, I love both so much, but it's got to be one or the other because the two don't work together.'

As far back as I can remember, I had an interest in fashion. I used to go to sleepaway camp, and they'd provide a list of things that you had to bring, and I always wanted to be a bit more creative than the list allowed. Like, if they required chinos, I wanted to hand-paint them.

Sephora's business is really smart and clever - I'm all for anything that gets people up and out and into the social experience of shopping.

We're developing things, but I don't know what we'll go with for the show, so I don't like to talk about it.

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

To me, beauty and makeup and color is like the finishing touch on everything.

I have no problem going on record with this and probably have gone on record with this before, there aren't that many people who I respect. There just aren't.

I'm not a model, so the idea of modelling a suit or clothes is weird in itself.

I've been openly gay since I can remember.

The Louis Vuitton woman is more about a quality - a quality within some women that needs to come forward, to be noticed and recognised.

I really do believe that art changes the landscape of the world.

I think it's an old fashioned notion that fashion needs to be exclusive to be fashionable.

I believe that anything can be for men or women. I mean, I've worn a lace dress before!

I don't see myself as being as big of an influence as other people seem to think.