Marc Jacobs is spreading out. Not the very thin Paris-based designer. He’s in amazing shape. We’re talking about his empire. In New York’s West Village, he’s opening a book store – an absolute first for a fashion designer in the States. (Karl Lagerfeld has a book store in Paris.) It will be called Book Marc, and will carry the kind of books that the Marc by Marc Jacobs store on Melrose carries – art books, music books, photography books, fashion books – an eclectic mix of extremely cool books. And in Los Angeles, after Marc by Marc put its menswear next to the big Marc by Marc women’s store at Melrose and Orlando, they will now take all the accessories in that store: sunglasses, jewelry, notebooks, rings, pens and the like – and open a Marc by Marc accessories store where Mulberry used to be, on Melrose Place, next door to Diesel, near Orlando. It’s nice to hear that a fashion empire in the U.S. is growing every minute.
