Native New Yorker, Marc Jacobs began his design career in 1981 when he attended Parsons School of Design. On the evening that Marc Jacobs was showing his senior collection and receiving some of the school’s highest honors, a fashion executive in the audience took immediate notice. The conversation that followed led to the creation of a partnership based on two very simple concepts: a love for fashion and a commitment to quality.

Two years later, Marc Jacobs ventured out, and designed his first clothing collection bearing the Marc Jacobs label. In 1995, he launched his first full collection of men’s ready-to-wear clothing, based on pieces that he himself would want. 2000 saw the launch of the first Marc Jacobs handbag collection. In 2001 Marc Jacobs and his partner Robert Duffy introduced their secondary menswear collection, Marc by Marc Jacobs. It was established on the basis of providing a collection of comparatively affordable, edgy and retro mass-market pieces. Since then, the collection has continued to grow exponentially to include Marc by Marc Jacobs shoes, Marc by Marc Jacobs handbags, Marc by Marc Jacobs eyewear.

Each season, the Marc by Marc Jacobs collections are created with the underlying theme of providing quality footwear, handbags, accessories, eyewear and watches with high fashion designs. 

Marc Jacobs was from the start a fashion legend, a prodigy of mythical talent, tribulation, and triumph who attained unequivocal success and authority. The legend is indisputably true, but the clothing tells a similar and instructive story in which a special genius is realized—encyclopedic in its sources, poignantly romantic, remarkably sophisticated, and yet impudent and joyous. Through a succession of labels and collections, Jacobs has consistently demonstrated a strong personal sensibility and has altered the history of clothing forever.

"Talents like Mr. Jacobs have become exceptional," wrote Amy Spindler of the New York Times. "He has become the most consistently strong, individualistic, real, live, kicking designer in New York." The legend of fashion prodigy is probably inseparably attached to Jacobs; that he has performed prodigiously as a leading master of American style in an immediate and seamless transition is indeed a marvel.