Marc Jacobs and Suzy Menkes Kiss and Make Up
October 10th, 2007 Posted in Fashion News
A month after fashion critic Suzy Menkes wrote a scathing review of Marc Jacobs and blasted the designer for showing two hours late in New York, Marc offered an olive branch by way of a t-shirt. The embroidered shirt by Lesage, with a cartoon of Suzy wringing Marc’s neck, was tied up in a bow and left on Suzy’s seat at the Louis Vuitton show in Paris. Suzy responded by writing a more favorable review of Louis Vuitton in her International Herald Tribune column. And no, Marc himself says that he did not stick his tongue out at Suzy.
Awww, you two! I’m jealous! And we all thought it would be a drawn out epic battle to the death.
[via FWD, Cathy Horyn]
January 29th, 2008 at 10:13 am
[...] Que Marc Jacobs tiene un fino y burlón sentido del humor lo dejó bien claro, no hace mucho, cuando después de la sonada disputa que tuvo con la venerable Menkes, periodista del International Herald Tribune, a raíz del monumental retraso de su penúltimo desfile, le dejó a ésta encima de su silla en el front row del desfile de Louis Vuitton en París, marca de la que és director creativo, un presente en forma de camiseta con una ilustración bordada de Suzy estrangulando a Marc. [...]