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Jacobs, who only met Warhol twice at dinner parties, admitted that he never felt he had enough of an art education to own art. “But now you turn on a Motorola phone and the graphics are inspired by [Takashi] Murakami’s art. I don’t think people realize that. I didn’t know him, but he did things and made things happen but had this world around him in this chaos that made things happen as well. We live in such a different time than when this magazine first started; things are so computer-driven now.”

-Marc Jacobs to Fashion Week Daily about Andy Warhol

Kirsten Owen and Stella Tennant. Credit: Style.com

After dropping Victoria Beckham from his S/S 08 ad campaigns, Marc Jacobs has opted to take the model route for his forthcoming fall-winter campaign. As WWD reports, the new faces of Marc Jacobs campaigns are models Kirsten Owen and Stella Tennant.

Celebrities and fashion designers gathered in New York for the annual CFDA Fashion Awards on Monday night. Meet this year’s winners:

Womenswear Designer of the Year: Francisco Costa for Calvin Klein
Menswear Designer of the Year: Tom Ford
Accessory Designer of the Year: Tory Burch
Swarovski Award for Womenswear: Kate and Laura Mulleavy for Rodarte
Swarovski Award for Menswear: for Band of Outsiders
Swarovski Award for Accessory Design: Philip Crangi
Eugenia Sheppard Award: Candy Pratts Price
Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award: Carolina Herrera
International Award: Dries Van Noten
Board of Directors’ Special Tribute: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg

Eva Longoria and Ashley Olsen

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Posh in a net-skirted black gown and oversized pale blue gloves. Credit: marie claire

It seems, this is the last weird Beckham photo for Marc Jacobs. Posh will not star in next season’s ads, as Jacobs told her, they will use models for their future ad campaigns.

What can one say, about these Posh ads, that Fashionistas around the planet haven’t already mentioned? This latest and last one, continues the trend of Jacobs and Victoria Beckham collaborating to satirize Posh’s notoriety, posing her idiotically as a mannequin. The ads tend to make you laugh at Beckham, rather than draw attention to Jacobs’ designs. Is that a good thing? Perhaps, it is best that the ads were a one-shot deal and for a limited run.

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“Just like I’m interested in contemporary art, music, all sorts of things, I’m fascinated by pop culture, and people’s fascination with her and other contemporary icons, as I call them. As soon as I saw her after the Louis Vuitton show for spring/summer 2008, when she came backstage, I got the idea and went to see her at the Ritz. We spoke about the irony and perversity of it, and she totally got it.”

- Marc Jacobs to the Independent on hiring Victoria Beckham as the face of his signature brand for spring/summer 2008.

It is so cool to see something different in the magazines these days, especially with the Gwyneths and Scarletts dominating every cover.

With a white mop of hair, crisp button-down shirt and tie, fake eyelashes aside, Marc Jacobs is transformed into fabled pop art Andy Warhol in Interview magazine’s June-July double issue.

“I don’t think of myself that way,” he said. “Warhol is Warhol. He’s practically a god. I thought, ‘I’m going to get a lot of hell for this.’”

“Even though my scalp and eyelids were completely sore, it was all worth it,” Jacobs said. “It was just a ball.”

T-shirts and tote bags imprinted with his cover shot, as well as magazines, will be splashed in the window display of his Bleecker Street store tomorrow. Proceeds from the $35 T-shirts and $15 tote bags will benefit the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. WWd reports.

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Marc Jacobs visited Moscow last week for the official opening of his store. Jacobs was invited by Aysel Trudel, who opened several of Jacobs’ boutiques in Moscow. Naomi Campbell and Eugenia Volodina accompanied Jacobs on his first visit to Russia in 2005, where he tried vodka for the first time.

And this time, someone poured coffee on Jacobs at the hotel he stopped at. Then at the cocktail reception in the boutique, he suffered from the huge number of people around him. And he seemed happy, only when he saw Daria Zhukova, who came to welcome the designer. After such serious stress for the introvert-Jacobs, Aysel Trudel and Jacobs had dinner at the popular restaurant Pushkin. Not surprisingly, they were late for their own party. However, they didn’t miss anything, a crowd of Moscow fashionistas were waiting for them.

Marc Jacobs and Daria Zhukova