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.
