"I wore the Marc Jacobs dress, so I love Marc Jacobs. He has a vintage flair. But I've always worn a lot of vintage stuff, so it hasn't been a lot of designers. If I see something that I like, I just buy it"
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The key phrase is "vintage flair" - a compliment that doubles as a boundary. She likes Jacobs not because he is a status marker but because his work aligns with a sensibility she claims already belongs to her. "I've always worn a lot of vintage stuff" quietly asserts authorship: the style precedes the designer. That matters in an era when red-carpet fashion is a highly mediated collaboration among stylist, house, and publicist, with luxury brands eager to turn bodies into billboards. Fanning's language resists that transactional script by emphasizing personal instinct over roster-building.
And then she lands on the bluntest possible ethos: "If I see something that I like, I just buy it". It's consumer talk, but it's also a defense of taste as appetite - immediate, private, slightly stubborn. The subtext is a refusal to pretend that style is always serious or strategic. Sometimes it's just desire, and sometimes the most modern flex is making that sound ordinary.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Fanning, Elle. (2026, January 17). I wore the Marc Jacobs dress, so I love Marc Jacobs. He has a vintage flair. But I've always worn a lot of vintage stuff, so it hasn't been a lot of designers. If I see something that I like, I just buy it. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-wore-the-marc-jacobs-dress-so-i-love-marc-68151/
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Fanning, Elle. "I wore the Marc Jacobs dress, so I love Marc Jacobs. He has a vintage flair. But I've always worn a lot of vintage stuff, so it hasn't been a lot of designers. If I see something that I like, I just buy it." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-wore-the-marc-jacobs-dress-so-i-love-marc-68151/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I wore the Marc Jacobs dress, so I love Marc Jacobs. He has a vintage flair. But I've always worn a lot of vintage stuff, so it hasn't been a lot of designers. If I see something that I like, I just buy it." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-wore-the-marc-jacobs-dress-so-i-love-marc-68151/. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.









