[left to right: Marc Jacobs in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006]

• “Why are people so bitter and jealous and being so horrible to me?”
• “People don’t really want reality,” he said. “They want surgically enhanced, scripted reality. The perversity of life today is so thrilling to me. It’s like a circus out there. It’s cartoon land.”
• “In the most basic way I can say it,” he said, relighting a cigarette, “coming from a psychological place, what I love more than anything is attention. That is about as honest of a statement that I could possibly make. I want a reaction, because I want the attention.”

source: [ny times]