"I love to take things that are everyday and comforting and make them into the most luxurious things in the world"
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The subtext is a dare to fashion’s old mythology. Traditional luxury sells distance - heritage, exclusivity, the cold perfection of things you’re not supposed to touch. Jacobs, especially in the era that made him a star, pushed a different fantasy: that glamour can be worn like a well-loved sweatshirt, that comfort doesn’t disqualify you from drama. Turning “comforting” into “luxurious” also rebrands softness as power, a refusal of the idea that seriousness requires stiffness.
Context matters because Jacobs’ career has been defined by toggling between downtown ease and runway excess - grunge references, street silhouettes, playful iconography made expensive through cut, fabrication, and branding. The quote is practically a mission statement for American fashion’s most enduring hustle: take democratic basics, apply taste and narrative, and sell them back as aspiration. It’s charming, but it’s also brutally honest about how luxury often works: not by inventing new needs, but by upgrading the ones you already have.
Quote Details
| Topic | Art |
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| Source | Verified source: Index Magazine: Interview with Marc Jacobs (Marc Jacobs, 2001)
Evidence: I liked the idea of making some visual noise through clothing. I found a two-dollar flannel shirt on St. Mark's Place and I sent it off to Italy and had it made into a $300-a-yard plaid silk. It was like the Elsa Perretti crystal tumbler at Tiffany that was inspired by a paper Dixie Cup. I love to take things that are everyday and comforting and make them into the most luxurious things in the world.. This wording appears as Marc Jacobs' spoken response in an interview conducted by Mary Clarke and published by Index Magazine. The page header identifies it as: “Marc Jacobs, 2001 WITH MARY CLARKE”. Because this is a web interview (not a book), there is no page number/chapter. This is a primary source (Jacobs speaking in an interview), and is the earliest clearly-dated primary publication I could verify for the exact wording that includes “everyday and comforting.” Other candidates (1) Fashion Design: The Complete Guide (John Hopkins, 2012) compilation95.0% ... I love to take things that are everyday and comforting and make them into the most luxurious things in the world ... |
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