Vogue or Elle? September is the January in fashion and so technically we are stepping into a new year in a few days time. Jennifer Aniston is the cover girl for Elle while Charlize Theron is Vogue’s. Both are among the most refined ladies of Hollywood with very different persona and I think, match the magazine each is on. Love both issues!
Not many designers are capable of running the creative department of a giant luxury house and designs for label of their own name at the same time. Miuccia Prada is one (running Prada and Miu Miu at the same time and does it extremely well). Then again, Miuccia Prada is one heck of a woman. The other designer is Marc Jacobs who runs Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs and Marc by Marc Jacobs. Marc graduated from Parson School of Design, joined Vuitton in 1997 and created the house’s first ready-to-wear collection. He took Vuitton from a luxury luggage and leather house to a full-fledge fashion brand producing everything from clothings to cellphone straps.
Still Louis Vuitton is best known for its luggage and bags and Marc Jacobs knows this well enough to have created limited-edition pieces that has the world drooling over. His first collaboration with Steven Sprouse in 2001 took the century-old monogram canvas and graffitied it all over, creating a demand that sold the bags out in no time. His collaboration with Takashi Murakami in 2003 resulted in young and beautiful cherry blossom limited-edition pieces which are still being re-sold at crazy prices in ebay today. The much sought-after multicolor canvas was made part of classic offerings afterwards due to its huge success.
In 2006, US Vogue editor and the most powerful woman in fashion, Anna Wintour picked Marc Jacobs along with six other designers to make up The Magnificent Seven who would map the future of fashion.
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