Fashion God Marc Jacobs has reportedly signed on to participate in a new gay-interest reality show inspired by Bravo’s Real Housewives franchise.
The proposed docusoap, tenatively titled Kept, will air in 2010 on the MTV-owned gay-friendly network LOGO.
Kept is expected to focus on a group of Manhattanite party boys and Jacobs, best known as the creative director Marc By Marc Jacobs and Louis Vuitton, are rumored to be among the show’s cast, The New York Daily News reported Wednesday.
An open-casting call for the remainder of the stars will take place in New York City in October. Kept is expected to begin filming in New York this November.
Move over, Lil Kim. Marc Jacobs has a new flamboyant BFF — Miss Piggy.
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The man behind the Marc By Marc Jacobs and Louis Vuitton Collections invited the Diva of All Muppets to his plush SoHo studio to go over looks for New York’s Spring Fashion Week next month. Does that mean The Piggy One will be taking a front row seat at Marc’s show?
The two also collaborated on a couture gown, which Miss Piggy will be wearing to Glamorama in Chicago this weekend.
We hear that fashion impressario Marc Jacobs will wed his boyfriend, Brazilian Lorenzo Martone, in a small, private ceremony in Provincetown, Mass., this weekend.
Acclaimed fashion designer Marc Jacobs has pushed back his wedding to ad exec Lorenzo Martone because he’s too busy.
The 46-year-old designer announced his plans to wed earlier this year. Marc and Lorenzo were set to exchange vows in Massachusetts this month, but the couple is now planning an August wedding because of Jacobs’ workload, Lorenzo tells Women’s Wear Daily.
Supermodel Kate Moss has teamed up with singing star Justin Timberlake and acclaimed fashion designer Marc Jacobs for a dazzling new photoshoot featured in the May edition of Vogue Magazine.
The image –which commemorates this year’s annual Costume Institute Gala at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art –was shot by noted celebrity photog Annie Leibovitz and sees Kate flaunting a flowing, golden gown designed by Oscar De La Renta, as J.T. and Marc stare on intently.
These days, Lil Kim is spending her evenings lighting up the leader board on the eighth season of ABC’s Dancing With The Stars, but the pint-sized rap mistress says that letters from bestie Marc Jacobs helped get her through a 10 month stint in federal prison on perjury charges in 2006.
The famed fashion designer and the tough girl from Brooklyn bonded over their love of style several years ago.
“He’s one of my best friends and was actually a huge supporter when I was in prison,” Kim said in an interview with StyleList.com. “He wrote me every week! “I decided to buy a coloring book – I’m a huge Bratz fan – and I painted the Bratz and made them all wear Marc Jacobs, and sent it to him. He blew it up and framed it, and now it’s hanging in his house. So Marc Jacobs is the best.”
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Acclaimed fashion designer Marc Jacobs and his fiance Lorenzo Martone plan to adopt a child.
Grazia writes: Since Lorenzo popped the question, the pair have been considering finding a baby girl to live with them in their new West Village house in New York.
Marc and Lorenzo, who got engaged last week, are currently on vacation in Lorenzo’s homeland of Brazil.
Acclaimed fashion designer Marc Jacobs is engaged. Women’s Wear Daily is reporting that ad executive Lorenzo Martone is ready to make an honest man out of the Louis Vuitton creative director. The unlucky in love queen, 45, has been dating the striking Brazilian for just over a year.
We hear Marc and Lorenzo will formally announce their pending marriage to fellow members of the fashion community when they arrive in Martone’s hometown of Sao Paolo on Thursday to celebrate the designer’s multi-brand store, which opened in January.
Louis Vuitton creative director, acclaimed fashion designer Marc Jacobs, takes fans behind the scenes of the making of the Louis Vuitton 2009 Spring/Summer ad campaign, starring The Material Girl.
“I wanted the campaign to be very bold, very sensual and very atmospheric. To carry off all these references and all this sophistication, we needed the ultimate performer and for me, that is Madonna,” says Marc.
