, there was Marc by Marc Jacobs—now there is The Marc Jacobs. And at some point between 2008 and 2012, when the Marc Jacobs hub on Bleecker and West 11th St. was all the rage, one strand of the brand’s merchandise was labeled Jacobs by Marc Jacobs for Marc by Marc Jacobs in collaboration for Marc Jacobs for Marc by Marc Jacobs.
The 24-minute movie lands somewhere between documentary and mockumentary. While much of it reads like a regular day in Jacobs’s world—getting dressed in a leather Prada suit, applying Jin Soon nail polish and Marc Jacobs Beauty eyeliner, vaping, relaxing with his dogs, and never removing his Mikimoto pearls—the film is stark and cinematic in its fictionalized portrayal of Jacobs’s life. He never interacts with another soul, save a FaceTime with his husband, Char Defrancesco.
Those well acquainted with Jacobs’s life and career will already be familiar with his star power. I’d argue that Loïc Prigent’sis the most influential contemporary fashion documentary—inspiring the fashion-docu boom of the 2010s. And despite initially eschewing social media, Jacobs’s Instagram page has become one of fashion’s brightest, chronicling his daily outfits with panache.