Top 100 Marc Jacobs Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Life is a fashion show, the world is your runway.”

— Marc Jacobs

2. “Let’s do what we love and do a lot of it.”

— Marc Jacobs

3. “To me, clothing is a form of self-expression – there are hints about who you are in what you wear.”

— Marc Jacobs

4. “I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect – they are much more interesting.”

— Marc Jacobs

5. “To me, beauty and makeup and color is like the finishing touch on everything.”

— Marc Jacobs

6. “Clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them.”

— Marc Jacobs

7. “To be useful to others and to be useful to myself is definitely a better place to be.”

— Marc Jacobs

8. “I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect, because that’s natural and that’s real.”

— Marc Jacobs

9. “I’m not good at hiding my feelings. I’m also not good at lying. I’m very open about everything.”

— Marc Jacobs

10. “Change is a great and horrible thing, and people love it or hate it at the same time. Without change, however, you just don’t move.”

— Marc Jacobs

11. “Luxury is about pleasing yourself, not dressing for other people.”

— Marc Jacobs

12. “The Louis Vuitton woman is more about a quality – a quality within some women that needs to come forward, to be noticed and recognised.”

— Marc Jacobs

13. “Makeup is the finishing touch, the final accessory.”

— Marc Jacobs

14. “You can never please everyone, and I think it’s best not to.”

— Marc Jacobs

15. “A sellout is putting your name on any piece of crap and then expecting people to buy it because it’s got your name on it. That’s what a sellout is to me.”

— Marc Jacobs

16. “Fashion is such a fairytale and it is such a fantasy. And it’s about metamorphosis and sort of changing yourself and playing a part that you want people to see.”

— Marc Jacobs

17. “Even mistakes can get you one step further.”

— Marc Jacobs

18. “I still appreciate individuality. Style is much more interesting than fashion, really.”

— Marc Jacobs

19. “Marc Jacobs is full of creative people and Louis Vuitton is again a name on the door, a name that has existed for many years but I’m a collaborator there and I bring in other people, other artists and I work with a great creative design team.”

— Marc Jacobs

20. “I’m useless at staring at a piece of white paper. But if you put a piece of white paper with a black line on it in front of me, I’ll say no that black line should be red and it should go this way or that way.”

— Marc Jacobs

21. “I always wanted to be a fashion designer so I just have to remember that as long as I’m doing it I’m living the dream.”

— Marc Jacobs

22. “We live in a world where people are really hungry for information, and they’re not hungry for information on subjects that they’re not interested in.”

— Marc Jacobs

23. “I used to buy good shoes, now I buy good bags. They make me feel more confident.”

— Marc Jacobs

24. “I wouldn’t know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it.”

— Marc Jacobs

25. “I’d like to be invisible. To be anonymous and see things for what they really are. The truth may be painful but it’s probably useful!”

— Marc Jacobs

26. “I don’t throw cell phones. I don’t hurt people, I only hurt myself.”

— Marc Jacobs

27. “There is never a wrong time for a polka dot.”

— Marc Jacobs

28. “I like the sort of ‘nothingness’ of the jeans and the T-shirt. I feel that’s about as close as I can get to the future because it seems like something so old that will always be, so I feel it’s a safe bet for the future.”

— Marc Jacobs

29. “Staring up at the sky on a bright, sunny day makes me dream and gives me ideas.”

— Marc Jacobs

30. “Sometimes, you just have to clear your head and get out to see other things. It is very important to be nourished. I love to go to museums and galleries, I like to see theatre, film, dance – anything creative. It doesn’t promise you inspiration, but it nourishes your creative soul, and that’s good.”

— Marc Jacobs

31. “I envy the people who go to Paris the first time.”

— Marc Jacobs

32. “Sephora’s business is really smart and clever – I’m all for anything that gets people up and out and into the social experience of shopping.”

— Marc Jacobs

33. “There is a small world of people who are very interested in contemporary art and a slightly bigger world of people who look at contemporary art. But then there is a much larger world that doesn’t realise how influential art is on things that they actually look at.”

— Marc Jacobs

34. “But the customer is the final, final filter. What survives the whole process is what people wear. I’m not interested in making clothes that end up in some dusty museum.”

— Marc Jacobs

35. “Grunge is a hippied romantic version of punk.”

— Marc Jacobs

36. “I never cared about buying things for myself, like clothes. And then all of a sudden I realized how great it is to be very precise about the shirts that I wear and all the things that are a part of my closet. So the ritual of fashion and shopping became very personal to me.”

— Marc Jacobs

37. “Design is a series of creative choices – it’s a collaborative effort, an evolutionary process. You choose your fabrics depending upon what you want to say, then you work with mills to get those fabrics. Through the process, you realize what you want it to be.”

— Marc Jacobs

38. “I think scent is sensual. I guess evoking a mood or a spirit is key, and I think with the women’s fragrances we have evoked different types, moods or sensibilities of a woman – whether it’s Daisy with the sweetness and the innocence or Lola which is more provocative, sexy and sultry.”

— Marc Jacobs

39. “Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it’s not necessary to be radical all the time.”

— Marc Jacobs

40. “I find people sexy, and I find personalities fascinating and sexy and appealing and charming. So a sexy girl wrapped in a sheet is a sexy girl, and an un-sexy girl in a low-cut dress is still an un-sexy girl.”

— Marc Jacobs

41. “But I’m blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.”

— Marc Jacobs

42. “Fashion isn’t a necessity. It pulls at your heart. It’s a whim. You don’t need it. You want it.”

— Marc Jacobs

43. “Sofia is so active, and she made The Virgin Suicides, which I thought was great – all these things are inspiring to me, not in terms of creating a particular dress, but just in terms of knowing that there is this type of woman out there.”

— Marc Jacobs

44. “The thing I most love and hate about fashion is that it changes all the time. But I don’t think I or anyone else can singlehandedly get rid of hooker style. Popular taste isn’t great by definition. It’s just popular.”

— Marc Jacobs

45. “I empathize with women in their high heels so I’ll be there in my kilt and T-shirt and I’ll walk around all day just to prove that if I can wear the shoes for 36 hours then certainly our customer can wear them.”

— Marc Jacobs

46. “I’d like to believe that the women who wear my clothes are not dressing for other people, that they’re wearing what they like and what suits them. It’s not a status thing.”

— Marc Jacobs

47. “Awkwardness gives me great comfort. I’ve never been cool, but I’ve felt cool. I’ve been in the cool place, but I wasn’t really cool – I was trying to pass for hip or cool. It’s the awkwardness that’s nice.”

— Marc Jacobs

48. “Part of the talent of any company is to surround yourself with people who have good spirit and help you do more and more things.”

— Marc Jacobs

49. “I think there is something about luxury – it’s not something people need, but it’s what they want. It really pulls at their heart.”

— Marc Jacobs

50. “I have a lot of tattoos. My first tattoo I had when I was a teenager was just a little heart. I am very friendly with a great artist, Scott Campbell, and I started going to him to get tattoos. I’m very spontaneous about what I get.”

— Marc Jacobs