I'm not recommending you cut school
to go to trunk shows or fashion shows.
But I did a little bit of that when I was younger too.
By sharing what I know, I hope that it
will inspire you to create and express yourself
through fashion.
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My grandmother would buy me Vogue, French Vogue sometimes
if I was really lucky.
And I would just pore over these images.
That was my first introduction to fashion.
I'll be discussing things that I wish I knew starting out.
The heart of my class is sharing the technical process.
Once in a while it's a fabric that inspires the dress.
And other times it's the dress we
want to make that inspires the fabric.
This is called intarsia when the fabric is not appliqued.
It is actually pieced together, almost like a jigsaw puzzle.
A nice juxtaposition, a finishing something beautifully
and then leaving edges of the fabric frayed.
The runway show is very important to me.
You can transmit not only ideas about texture and proportion
but also about spirit and emotion.
I was brought into Louis Vuitton to shake things up.
And it didn't always sit well with the people
who were there before me.
A lot of the ideas that I had early on I was told,
you can't put this on the runway.
And it really was when I stopped listening to everybody
and did what I thought was right that I did
what I was brought in to do.
But I personally feel good when I take a risk.
I'm proud of myself when I take a chance.
I think you should too.
I hope you learn fashion is not an art.
It's part of the art of living.
See what you really love.
Do what you feel you have some kind of connection to.
Create your own voice, your own vision, your own style.
Taking creative risks is what fashion is about.
I'm Marc Jacobs, and this is my MasterClass.