Fashion

Oh my Lola

Once hesitant and doubtful, fashion superstar Marc Jacobs is taking more risks with his latest fragrance, Lola.

“I’m very nervous and star-struck right now. I just need to put that out there,” I confess to Marc Jacobs, sitting across from him in his expansive SoHo showroom as we begin our interview. The irony in divulging this to Jacobs, who’s always been forthcoming about his own anxieties—offering them up like hors d’oeuvres at a party—doesn’t occur to me until later. Heightening my nerves is the fact that it’s just him and me; the usual phalanx of eavesdropping PR reps is waiting outside. I feel like a dork with a crush, parked across from this hunky beacon of cool at one of several high-school-cafeteria–like tables. “Don’t be, don’t be! I’m easy, I’m a really simple person,” he assures me.

Hardly the summation you’d expect from one of the most influential designers of the past decade and the head of three global brands: his own labels and Louis Vuitton. Yet what is so fascinating and endearing about Jacobs is that despite creating highly coveted items season after season, he continues to fret about what to do next, and whether his sartorial decisions will be met with approval. “I have tons of insecurities, personally as a human being and as a creator,” he confides. “I worry about pleasing people, because that’s my job.”

First published in FASHION Magazine September 2009

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