Juergen Teller / Marc Jacobs /Alexander Rodchenko

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Another great Teller ad for Marc Jacobs "Alexander Rodchenko" style.....

Juergen Teller / Marc Jacobs - Part 9

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Marc Jacobs F/W 2008. 

Elizabeth Peyton / Marc Jacobs

Marc Jacobs by Elizabeth Peyton, 2004

Portrait included in Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton. Exhibition on view at the New Museum, New York, through 01.11.09. 

Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton. Press Release. 

excerpted text: 

"From her earliest portraits of musicians like Kurt Cobain, Liam Gallagher, and Jarvis Cocker to more recent paintings featuring friends and figures from the worlds of art, fashion, cinema, and politics including Rirkrit Tiravanija, Matthew Barney, and Marc Jacobs, Elizabeth Peyton's body of work presents a chronicle of America at the end of the last century. A painter of modern life, Peyton's small, jewel-like portraits are also intensely empathetic, intimate, and even personal. Together, her works capture an artistic zeitgeist that reflects the cultural climate of the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries."

Marc Jacobs / Andy Warhol

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Marc Jacobs. By Glenn O'Brien. Interview. June / July 2008. 

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"His collaborations with Stephen Sprouse, Takashi Murakami, and Richard Prince have shaken things up in both the fashion and art worlds. Not to mention advertising that looks like art and boutiques that feel like clubs. Andy Warhol used to talk about the best art being business art. And it would be hard to find someone who has done more to apply to an artist's thinking of running a creative big business than Marc Jacobs." (Glenn O'Brien)

"It's not my fault! I just have interests outside the superficial world of fashion" (Marc Jacobs)

"I started to thinking in romantic terms, and I always thought back to the time of Schiaparelli and Chanel and Cocteau, when all these creative people seemed to be doing things together. They where influenced by Pablo Picasso or Salvador Dali, and fashion and art had a chance, you know?" (Marc Jacobs)

"And what I wanted to do, in the same way as Serge [Gainsbourg] had done, was deface it. The way that Duchamp had done with L.H.O.O.Q., by putting this moustache on [the Mona Lisa] and making it something hipper, a little bit anarchic, and just cooler". 

"Takashi was so pleased with what we had done that he then had a show at Marianne Boesky Gallery where he showed his paintings, which were inspired by the work that we had done together. He had an actual art show of work that he had done after seeing the fashion show". 

"Whether you like it or not, there's a validity to it. For all the critics who made fun of the installation of a Vuitton shop within Takashi's MOCA exhibition...I saw it like Martin Kippenberger's subway grate, you know? It Challenged this sort of categorizing. Like, what is teh art here? Is it what's on the bag? Is it the action of buying the bag - that's the art? Is it watching the people buying the art? Because it's installed in an exhibition in a museum, it it some kind of conceptual performance piece? It operates on so many levels that it's hard to categorize." (Marc Jacobs)

Marc Jacobs

Marc Jacobs: A fashion force to be reckoned with. Melanie Rickey. The Independent. 05.26.08.
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"In a talk to Central Saint Martins students in London last week, Jacobs said that the corporate bods upstairs at LV didn't want to do the Sprouse graffiti bags. 'But we just did it. I thought, 'If they fire me, it won't be the first time'. And $300m in sales later, they thought it was a good idea.'" (Melanie Rickey, Marc Jacobs"

"He's made the art/fashion collaboration valid yet enjoyably populist in contemporary fashion." (Melanie Rickey)

"Who cares what the references are? I hate references, they're boring. If a girl wants to wear it, then it's valid. (Marc Jacobs)

Louis Vuitton / RIchard Prince

Arm Candy Alert! The Daily. 05.27.08.
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"The French fashion and accessories house, which tapped Richard Prince to design a collection of handbags for spring, is offering a limited-edition style to celebrate the artist's first major UK solo exhibition from June 26 to September 7, entitled "Continuation," at the Serpentine Gallery."

"Only 50 of the ostrich and canvas Jamais bags are available, each numbered and signed by the artist. They will be sold exclusively at Vuitton's Sloane Street store in London during Prince's solo show. Priced at 9,000 pounds, or about $17,800, a portion of proceeds from the Jamais bags will benefit the Serpentine."

Marc Jacobs / Andy Warhol / Interview

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Marc by Marc Jacobs Men. Bleecker Street, New York.

Marc Jacobs / Andy Warhol / Interview

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Marc by Marc Jacobs Women. Bleecker Street, New York. 

Marc Jacobs / Andy Warhol

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Fifteen and then some. Memo Pad. WWD. 05.19.08.

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"With a white mop of hair, crisp button-down shirt and tie, the designer looks mighty Warholian on the cover of the magazine's June-July double issue" (WWD)

"Andy was always talking about how new art is business art" (Glenn O'Brien)

"'I don't think of myself that way,'" he said. 'Warhol is Warhol. He's practically a god'. I thought, 'I'm going to get a lot of hell for this.'" (Marc Jacobs)

Juergen Teller / Marc Jacobs - Part 8

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Marc Jacobs S/S 2008. 

Louis Vuitton / Plesner

Knock it Off, Vuitton Says. New York Post. 05.06.08.
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Louis Vuitton products are illegally copied all over the world. Now Vuitton is battling a Belgian art student who's allegedly knocking off a Vuitton handbag that was a collaboration between Marc Jacobs and Japanese artist Takashi Murakami. Nadia Plesner, a painter working with Designers for Darfur, depicted a Darfurian child holding a bag resembling the Vuitton one.

"She used the accessories to show that this is what the world is paying attention to," (Malcolm Harris, creator of Designers for Darfur)

"Plesner sells the images on posters and shirts, with the money going to the charity. But in February, Vuitton sent her a cease-and-desist letter stating: 'We cannot help noticing that the design of [your] product includes the reproduction of a bag infringing on LV's intellectual property rights.' Plesner continued and has now been smacked with a lawsuit. 'I stand up for my artistic freedom to express my view of the world . . . without restrictions,' "

Takashi Murakami / Karl Lagerfeld / Carine Roitfeld

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Time 100. Takashi Murakami / Karl Lagerfeld / Carine Roitfeld. Time. 05.12 .08. 

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"Our collaboration has produced a lot of works and has been a huge influence and inspiration to many. It has been and continues to be a monumental marriage of art and commerce. The ultimate crossover—one for both the fashion and art history books. The best part is that it continues, it grows, it morphs and still excites. Our efforts have come full circle. And I get to keep playing this game of catch ball with a great artist—and friend."(Marc Jacobs on Takasi Murakami)

"Now, through his work, fashion originates from the street, the media—anywhere. This has resulted in exciting collections that are provocative and sensual. His unrelenting experimentation in fashion, art and photography offers us endless possibilities yet is always grounded and relevant." (Zaha Hadid on Karl Lagerfeld)

"With time I discovered that we shared a few principles: a preference for the "now" rather than the "new," a preference for imperfection rather than so-called good taste and an attitude driven by intuition rather than reason. Most of all, she has an innate ability to mix street culture and society, always avoiding the caricatures that can define both worlds and always recognizing the mix of both worlds as the only catalyst of energy and creativity." (Hedi Slimane on Carine Roitfeld)

Biggest Brains in Business

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73 Biggest Brains in Business. Conde Nast Portfolio. Marc Jacobs / Zaha Hadid / Karl Lagerfeld / You Minjun. May 2008. 

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"He [Marc Jacobs] has made a career of reinventing his designs and his personal style, which the fashion world pays almost as much attention to."

"She [Zaha Hadid]makes things you couldn't make before. (Rolf Fehlbaum, Chairman of Vitra)

"Lagerfeld has managed to sell himself without selling out."

Since the auctions, prices for Yue's work and that of his peers have jumped, helping make Chinese art a must-have for many big-name collectors in the business world..."

Big Fun

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Big Fun. Miles Socha. W. May 2008. 

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"Everything these days has to occur in a bigger way in order to get people's attention: The volume on everything has to be turned up." (Marc Jacobs)

"And Boucheron inveiled its latest high-jewelry creations during the January couture amid contemporary artworks by Damien Hirst, Richard Prince and others on loan from billionaire Francois Pinault, who controls Boucheron parent company Gucci Group." (Miles Socha)

:In February an otherworldy pavilion designed by notes architect Zaha Hadid called Mobile Art, which houses artworks inspired by Chanel's iconic quilted bags, landed in a parking garage in Hong Kong. Like a UFO, it's next off to Tokyo, them Mew York and other worlds capitals. 'To find a gallery in each city [for the exhibition], that's boring', says Lagerfeld. Chiquet declines to say how much the project cost, but emphasizes, 'Chanel will continue to invest appropriately in ideas that intrigue, surprise and amuse our customers...[It] reinforces its myth - surprising, and provoking the public.'" (Miles Socha)

Juergen Teller / Marc Jacobs - Part 7

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Marc Jacobs S/S 2008. 

Marc Jacobs F/W 2008. Front row. 

Juergen Teller

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Juergen Teller. By Emma Revees. the journal. Entry #21. 

"No I don't actually. I go specifically to do something. I think about it. Put everything together, organize it, and execute it. And I might have to re-shoot it if I think it didn't work out. So I work as long as I have to, to get it." (Juergen Teller)

"I guess everything is a collaboration, but I am the director, I am the boss!" (Juergen Teller)

"I was doing these record covers and music press and the i-D and The Face asked if I did portraits, and I started to look at these crazy magazines. They seemed to be full of empty pages that you could fill as long as you photographed the fashion. For years I was too shy to photograph women. I didn't know how to deal with them so I photographed men. I was too shy, my English wasn't good enough and something just didn't feel right about it. Why should I photograph this? Maybe it was the little by from the countryside next to the woods syndrome. How can I photograph these beautiful women? It just doesn't make any sense! A bit of a lack of self-confidence. Of course it has gone quite far the other way!" (Juergen Teller)

"I am loyal to my friends and working relationships. It seems to work." (Juergen Teller)

"No, not at all. I think it is more interesting to go through highly exciting times or difficult times and to keep working through a relationship. You can also go deeper and get better work."(Juergen Teller"

"I kind of think about what could be good for a particular magazine. The closest relationship I have is with Dennis at W. He has only missed one shoot of 20 that I have done over eight years, I think. We work on ideas right from the beginning and I do have control right until the end with the layout. It is really exciting in terms of commercial fashion magazine. I see so many fashion stories where you can't even see the fucking clothes. I have to photograph what they need me to, and photograph it right away. I have to be grow up about it. It's business." (Juergen Teller)

"Yes, in fact, in the Ukraine I thought, "what the fuck am I going to do?" I did photograph a lot in the street and in night-clubs and all these things, and I am thinking I can never be as good as Boris Mikhailov or as a Magnum Photographer. I am too lazy about it. I don't like voyeuristic pictures where the other person is not involved. I need direct contact and an understanding that you are willing to be photographed. I was still troubled. When I got there I was picked up by three limos, with bodyguards in bulletproof vests and guns. I was thinking ' this is insane.'You go into the subway and there is a train that is completely old-fashioned, with plasma screens  with fashion TV on. You go into the hotel, into the lobby, you go into the airport, into a Japanese restaurant, into a coffee shop, there's fashion TV fucking everywhere. Night clubs. Everywhere. After the first week I was dead, thinking,'What the fuck am I going to do?' Some of the photographs made it at the end. I was thinking, 'Where is the Ukraine going?' and I thought, the whole mess, it has to be a bonkers fashion story, I need the most expensive bag in the world, this 80k[UK pounds]Louis Vuitton handbag, with all the different bags in it. It is a handbag, 17 different handbags in one, extremely limited edition. I thought, 'I have got to have it . Have to have the model, in high heels, naked, with the handbag over her head, walking through the forest.' The forest reminded me of where I grew up. I really liked it. And that was the starting point, the key picture of the whole lot. They are so much into bodybuilding and there are gyms outside. For them it is normal to work out in the snow. There are these guys working out. It is not like gyms that we know. It is more like scrap metal from builders all fixed into the ground so that no one steals it. I used one key picture with a woman wearing really tight jeans, really big glasses and she starts working out. It is crazy. Everything is insane. So i thought, 'who can actually help me to produce that?' I called Dennis from W and explained that I was doing this thing for the Venice Biennale and he like, 'Oh my God.' He was obviously very keen  to do a collaboration, to be in the Venice Biennale as a fashion story. I used all these other pictures which I shot, and kept the W story very fashion. The first night I got to the Ukraine I met the Ukrainian playmate of the year. I was like 'Whoah! That is exciting'. I had Lara Stone, a Russian model, Irinia and her mum, as well as the playmate. The Ukrainians wanted to do a press conference: 'Juergen Teller does a fashion story.' I thought no way, I don't need that. Then I thought, actually that is what exactly what I need, so I photographed the press conference too." (Juergen Teller)

"It depends. You look at the clothes and think who would be possible for the mens, the womens', the young line. Sometimes I have the idea and sometimes he has the idea" (Juergen Teller)

"I have to have a relationship with the person or Marc has to have to have a relationship. For instance, Marc was so excited about Rufus Wainwright. I suggested Kirsten McMenamy or Roni Horn ad now we are using Harmony Korine. He suggested Meg White as he met her at a concert. I love her, she is great. Marc also asked me what I thought of Cindy Sherman. I analyzed the work and thought that one thing was pretty clear in her work: She hardly ever looks into the camera. Very rarely direct.  thought this is what I am quite good at, being direct. She is never with anyone else, always on her own. I thought which actor we could put with her, I thought what they have to do with this. SO I thought, 'oh it is going to have to be me again!'" (Juergen Teller)

Juergen Teller Interview. Ukraine / Venice Biennale. 

Marc Jacobs / Juergen Teller - Part 6

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Daisy by Marc Jacobs. 

Juergen Teller / Marc Jacobs - Part 5

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Marc Jacobs S/S 2008.

Juergen Teller / Marc Jacobs - Part 4

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Marc Jacobs S/S 2008. 

Louis Vuitton / Marc Jacobs / RIchard Prince

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Risky Business. Photographed by Steven Klein. Vogue. May 2008.