The New York Post article entitled “What’s Wrong With Marc Jacobs?” revealed the designer to be both a drug and a sex addict.
“Marc is a gay man who is a drug addict, who hires hookers. Why lie about it?” goes a damning quote from Marc’s former longtime business partner Robert Duffy, which was the focal point of writer Maureen Callahan’s exposé. The article includes an enumeration of the designer’s failures: his flopped shows and his falling out with Robert and with other creative collaborators like photographer Juergen Teller.
But Marc isn’t having any of this public shaming. He fires back at the writer through an open letter via Instagram caption saying, “You’re a sick woman.” He then compares Maureen to a parasite feeding off the failures of other people.
The story, which was published two days ago, claims, “All is not well in the house of Marc Jacobs.” Maureen hinted at “business struggles” and Marc’s “bizarre behavior” as the culprits of the seeming downfall of the once-esteemed fashion brand. “Young people no longer covet Marc Jacobs as a label,” goes another quote in the article.
The 52-year-old designer was quick to defend himself on Instagram by saying that the article was written and put together “from out of context information.”
Marc’s full response read:
“Girl, I think I understand your pain. You’re a sick woman. It must be such a sad, unfulfilling and lonely existence to get paid for ‘writing’ (I use the term loosely) an article put together from out of context information ‘written’ by other journalists over a period of time, for different periodicals, in different countries. I can’t even imagine your suffering having made a life and name working for what has to be the worlds worst, trashiest, and most irresponsible of ‘newspapers’ (LOL)!
“I can imagine the powerful and fulfilling feeling you must feel with each piece you ‘write’ that helps yourself and your readers feel better about their lives by putting down others who are so fortunate as to have been blessed with a genuine passion for creation. Those creative individuals who like everyone else has (sic)feelings, a sexual appetite, ‘issues,’ character defects, and professional ups and downs. If you were a real writer and not the parasite feeding off of the successes and failures of others I wouldn’t bother writing my thoughts here.
“I do feel sorry for you. Please know you are in my prayers. I hope you will someday find something, somewhere that gives you pleasure…and not at another’s expense. Should that moment happen for you, please don’t thank me. I only wish the best for everyone. Even you. Sincerely and disrespectfully, Marc (Jacobs). #lethimwhoiswithoutsincastthefirststone #youwannacomeforme?”
But this wasn’t the only Marc Jacobs-related news bit that came out this week. The designer, who mistakenly posted a nude selfie earlier this July, had another one coming his way. A day after the article’s publishing came another one from Page Six claimed that Marc hosted a “wild” 10-person orgy through the gay chat app Grindr. He took a screenshot of the article and posted on Instagram, cheekily correcting the title to be “mild” and not “wild.”
Whatever’s really going on with his life we know one thing for sure now: Don’t mess around with Marc Jacobs.
[The Cut]
Photo courtesy of New York Post
