Marc Jacobs Is ”Past Flattered” to Settle for Vogue Trailblazer Award at 2019 MTV VMAs
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Marc Jacobs made historical past at tonight’s 2019 MTV VMAs.
The world-renowned mogul accepted the ceremony’s first-ever Vogue Trailblazer Award, an honor established to rejoice designers whose mark on the trade is outlined by their work with musicians. That makes Jacobs, whose loyal movie star clientele embody Cher, Girl Gaga and Miley Cyrus, the proper inaugural recipient.
Jacobs took the stage inside New Jersey’s Prudential Heart to supply a heartfelt acceptance speech.
“From the second I noticed the Buggles‘ ‘Video Killed the Radio Star,’ MTV taught me the way to see music I listened to and love,” he shared onstage in a pre-recorded video message. “You gave artists a platform to specific their music and concepts by transferring picture, and gave me a dynamic supply of knowledge.”
“I’m past and flattered to be the first-ever recipient of the Vogue Trailblazer Award,” Jacobs concluded.
As for what’s subsequent from 56-year-old Jacobs, he just lately recruited iconic supermodel Christy Turlington because the face of his Fall 2019 marketing campaign. After greater than twenty years away, Turlington made an epic return to New York Vogue Week this yr at Jacobs’ present.
In reflecting on their joint, classically-styled picture shoot from the marketing campaign, Jacobs wrote on Instagram, “I hope and imagine that by some means and someway Christy and I’ll proceed to do fantastic issues collectively for a really, very very long time. Everybody concerned on this marketing campaign means so much to me. Some are newer relationships and a few are a lot older ones. They’re all necessary and I worth every of them.”
The Vogue Trailblazer Award was created between MTV and the Council of Vogue Designers of America. As a part of the honour, the Marc Jacobs workforce created a multimedia activation with MTV on the VMAs pink carpet that highlighted his distinctive artistic imaginative and prescient and its relation to the music world.
Congratulations to Marc, and proceed tuning into E! Information for extra updates from contained in the 2019 VMAs.