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Marc Jacobs

Long intimidated by the art world, Marc Jacobs didn’t start collecting until five years ago—and now he just can’t stop. Inside the designer’s Paris apartment.

By Christopher Bagley
Photographed by Philip-Lorca DiCorcia

November 2007

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Jacobs says he buys what he likes (works that tends towards the figurative, the graphic) and hangs it where he can see it. "Typical addict behavior," says the designer with a half smile. "I just got this bug. I started going to galleries, and I kind of went mad." On the upstairs landing, Damien Hirst’s Paracetamol, 2004–05, and Richard Prince’s Island Nurse, 2002

By Christopher Bagley
Photographed by Philip-Lorca DiCorcia

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