Loving And Hating Marc Jacobs, With An Emphasis On The Latter 38427

The highlight of the New York Times article entitled “Loving and Hating Marc Jacobs” is potentially the designer’s candid (cough) revelation that he’s nothing but a good, old-fashioned attention whore. “In the most basic way I can say it,??? he said, relighting a cigarette, ???coming from a psychological place, what I love more than anything is attention. That is about as honest of a statement that I could possibly make. I want a reaction, because I want the attention.???

Naturally, this deeply personal confessional comes directly after the Jacobs’ insistence that he’s being maligned by the “bitter and jealous” detractors and (unfairly!) depicted in the press as an narcissistic egoist whose growing obsession with his own public perception—combined with his meteoric rise to fame—has turned him into a poorly reconstructed (or in his case, expertly nip/tucked) version of his former self.

But while we’re loathe to give Jacobs the attention he so desperately craves, we do, in fact, have a reaction.

And it may or may not involve eye-rolling, and/or the tacit acknowledgment that the number of things we hate about Marc Jacobs (His prices! His Perez Hilton colored hair! His annoying habit of starting shows 2-3 reason and then getting overly defensive about it!) vastly outweighs the number of things we love about him (i.e. his handbags. Which, one day, we might actually be able to afford). [via Queerty]