Marc, having followed your career and having seen the documentary, I would consider you to be quite a forward-looking person. What was it like to have to step back and do a kind of retrospective of your own career at this point?
Coppola: I do consider you to be a forward-looking person—or present, right?
Jacobs: I try to be. It wasn’t intentional, but seeing the movie, I realized, through this last process of the last show, how inspired and how excited I was by the past and how it does come up for me repeatedly in whatever my present is. It was great to see them, especially the ’90s, like the X-Girl show.
Coppola: I hadn’t thought about that time, so it was fun to revisit.
Jacobs: It just took me back to that moment, how different life was then, and there were no smartphones.
Coppola: It was just kind of looser and you’d run into people.
Jacobs: Just being reminded of those memories feels kind of nice.
Marc, there’s a point in the documentary where you talk about the Stephen Sprouse graffiti bags and joining Louis Vuitton. You say that the way you approached that job was to “disrespect” the thing. That made me think of how you two have a similar creative ethos. Setting period pieces to contemporary music. There’s something punk about both of those creative impulses.
Coppola: I think you always connect with someone because you have a shared sensibility and that kind of punk approach. I think all creative people look at something, and I’m like, What if you do it upside down? I think it’s just part of being creative.
I remember seeing that bag at the time and thinking, This is the coolest thing ever.
Jacobs: The complete version of that story, just thinking about it now, it just dawned on me. I was looking for an apartment, my second apartment in Paris, before I moved into that really great one, but I went to look at Charlotte Gainsbourg’s apartment. She just had a child and she was breastfeeding on the bed, and next to the bed as a nightstand was this Vuitton trunk that had been painted black, and I just noticed it in the corner and I said to her, “Oh, that’s so cool. I can’t believe you painted that.” Her dad painted it black.
Coppola: That’s so cool. I never heard that story.
Jacobs: Taking this monogram and disrespecting it, just saying, like, “No, paint it black or cover it in graffiti.”
Coppola: I wish I had one. I do have a cherry Vuitton speedy.
