Quotes by Marc Jacobs

For so many years, I felt so insecure, so inferior, and I still have those moments, but I have a newfound confidence since I got in shape and changed my diet.

I mean, Id love to have a private jet - I know people who fly by private jet all the time... Ive hitched a ride a few times and it is not overrated at all; its a great way to travel!

But Im 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.

Whether its an $11 flip-flop or a $2 key ring or a $2,000 dress, theyre all done with integrity. Theyre all done with a design sense. As long as the creativity exists, then I dont think its a sellout. A sellout is putting your name on any piece of crap and then expecting people to buy it because its got your name on it.

Design is a series of creative choices - its 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 is full of creative people and Louis Vuitton is again a name on the door, a name that has existed for many years but Im a collaborator there and I bring in other people, other artists and I work with a great creative design team.

Im not really well educated - other than an art survey course at the High School of Art and Design in New York when I was, like, 15. I dont know the history of art, but I got over intimidation from the art world when I realized that I was allowed to feel whatever I want and like whatever I want.

We dont design by calculator or by demographics or anything like that. We really are a group of creative, sensitive people. We have our charmed little world where we get to make things. Were really lucky.

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

I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting.

I dont love Photoshop; I like imperfection. It doesnt mean ugly. I love a girl with a gap between her teeth, versus perfect white veneers. Perfection is just... boring. Perfect is whats natural or real; that is beauty.

Yes, I always remember my dads, moms and my grandmas perfumes.

It just seemed too weird to me. I dont know, maybe they were smoking a joint in the car downstairs from their parents apartment. I had to go that far to put together a scenario of how they could have possibly recognized me.

Grunge is a hippied romantic version of punk.

Its quite nice to see that I didnt have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people.