Fashion Week: Marc Jacobs Goes Alec Baldwin in WWD

Marc Jacobs, the undisputed darling of Gotham fashionistas, has decided the best defense is an expletive-laden offense. After being taken to task in various reviews by beleaguered editors for the delayed start — two hours, this year — of his Monday night fashion show, Jacobs and his business partner Robert Duffy put two separate calls into WWD that led to a fiery front-page story today.


The piece begins with a contrite-sounding Jacobs (“I’m very sorry having inconvenienced anyone”), but quickly devolves into a curse-filled rant against working parents who dared say that they missed tucking in their kiddies due to the designer’s tardiness.

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