Word: marc
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...involves getting three things right: price, fashion and fabrication. "If we create a handbag that everyone wants and then they also say, 'Great price,' then we've hit on something," says Krakoff, whose office is decorated with inspiration boards that include photos of a Noguchi sculpture, a Marc Newson sketch and a swatch of gray fabric from a chair in his house. "I'm noticing more organic shapes and more black and white than color right now," he says, flipping through an auction catalog filled with works by American artists like Alexander Calder and Robert Motherwell...
Shirt Alert Marc Jacobs shirt, $1,400, and shorts, $890 marcjacobs.com) James Robinson antique gold chain; Madame Fortuna by Allison Nowlin brass necklace; Melet Mercantile belt. Opposite page: Chloé organza blouse, $1,275, and skirt, $3,025 (212-717-8220); Bing Bang silver and rose gold necklace; James Robinson pendant and necklace. Both pages: YSL pumps, $495 ysl.com...
...EIGHT YEARS, ROBERT RICH HAS WORKED from the basement of the Marc Jacobs store in New York City. His tiny office is plastered with photographs and magazine clippings of famous clients?Sofia Coppola, Hilary Swank, Winona Ryder. Amid the beautiful clutter, the only discernible piece of furniture is a white leather sofa that looks a lot like a couch you would find in a shrink's office?which is fitting, since Rich is a therapist of sorts. His official title at Marc Jacobs is director of public relations for stores?he decides what to buy for the label...
...what's it like to be a preferred customer at Marc Jacobs? Compared with the feeling at other luxury labels, the Jacobs vibe, like the brand, is low-key. "It's not by appointment or anything," says Rich. "Usually it's a pop-in kind of thing." Rich makes house calls?he has delivered clothes to model Stephanie Seymour in Connecticut and to Julia Roberts when she is in town?but he has never boarded a plane for a client, and his digs are nothing like the vault-like VIP suites at Louis Vuitton. He doesn't shut down...
...Marc Jacobs' VIPs happily descend the narrow staircase at the back of the SoHo store and weave through the racks of cashmere and lace, past the shoe-lined shelves, until they get to Rich's lair. "It's the most cool, laid-back place in New York," says Lisa Airan, a Manhattan dermatologist who is a regular on the city's society pages. "You can run down and sit in the office and have an Evian...