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Love Quote by Marc Jacobs

"I think of many people and no one as a muse. I love the way Sofia looks always, and I love the way Kim looks always. Fashion may be part of their world, but it's not their whole life. It's not everything"

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Marc Jacobs is doing two things at once here: widening the idea of inspiration while quietly rejecting the fashion industrys favorite myth, the singular Muse with a capital M. "Many people and no one" is a paradox designed to puncture the romantic story that great work arrives via one glamorous woman who exists mainly to be looked at. He keeps the word muse but drains it of its ownership, turning it into a diffuse current rather than a private contract.

Then he pivots to the risky part: "I love the way Sofia looks always... Kim... always". Its a love letter to image, and Jacobs doesnt pretend otherwise. But the repetition of "always" reads less like lust than like loyalty: a statement that style can be a consistent, lived-in identity, not just a red-carpet costume. Naming Sofia Coppola and Kim Gordon matters. Both are famous, but not famous for being fashion plates; they carry auteur credibility and subcultural authority. That lets Jacobs praise their looks while framing it as an admiration for a whole person whose taste is anchored in real work.

The final lines are the tell: hes positioning himself against fashions totalizing impulse. In a business that often treats clothes as destiny, Jacobs is insisting on proportion. Fashion is "part of their world" but not "their whole life" - a boundary that flatters his subjects and, just as importantly, flatters his brand of cool: the kind that looks effortless because it has something else going on.

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Jacobs, Marc. (2026, January 18). I think of many people and no one as a muse. I love the way Sofia looks always, and I love the way Kim looks always. Fashion may be part of their world, but it's not their whole life. It's not everything. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-of-many-people-and-no-one-as-a-muse-i-23190/

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Jacobs, Marc. "I think of many people and no one as a muse. I love the way Sofia looks always, and I love the way Kim looks always. Fashion may be part of their world, but it's not their whole life. It's not everything." FixQuotes. January 18, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-of-many-people-and-no-one-as-a-muse-i-23190/.

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"I think of many people and no one as a muse. I love the way Sofia looks always, and I love the way Kim looks always. Fashion may be part of their world, but it's not their whole life. It's not everything." FixQuotes, 18 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-of-many-people-and-no-one-as-a-muse-i-23190/. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.

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Marc Jacobs (born April 9, 1963) is a Designer from USA.

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