Marc Jacobs Show Cost $1 Million

We were blessed enough to attend Marc Jacobs show on Monday night, but we had no idea what the entire shebang cost!

The New York Times found out: $1 million, which seems sort of reasonable for a top-name production...but then the Times got all fancy and did some math -- that $1 million breaks down to $1,750 for each second of the nine-and-a-half minute affair. That's like one month's worth of rent, utilities, groceries and a subway card. Or, you know, one Marc Jacobs purse. Whew!

Some more Marc Jacobs stats from the article:

• There were 500 guests
• And 63 outfits.
• Each model appeared for 45 seconds.
• Each model wore 22-inches of human hair extensions,
• Which rang in at $180/head.
• There were 50 hairdressers,
• 35 makeup artists,
• And 70 dressers.

Marc Jacobs President Robert Duffy spoke with the Times:

"Sometimes, I don't know how we got from there to here," Mr. Duffy said, referring to the early days of his 27-year partnership with Mr. Jacobs, when the two of them constructed sets themselves and went around "with a tin cup" to friends. "Nobody has any idea what it takes to do all this," he added.

Read the rest at NYT.com.

Comments

[WalkForward]

01:40 AM on 02/18/2011

He's brilliant!!

[gemini68]

04:47 PM on 02/17/2011

why is this news? Millions of dollars are spent on couture fashion shows why is Marc Jacobs' relatively tame $ 1 mil. news?

[traceymarie]

04:19 PM on 02/17/2011

and all those hair dressers, makeup artists, tailors, stage crew, models, clean/set up crews all got a weeks wages.

[plusszdiva]

04:05 PM on 02/17/2011

And reporting like this is why the style reporters of this site DON'T get invited to fashion shows.

[Anita Siraki]

05:54 PM on 02/17/2011

a lot of sources are reporting the same thing

it's a surprising figure because the show itself was under 10 minutes long.

[plusszdiva]

04:42 AM on 02/18/2011

I don't doubt that the show cost 1M. I am saying that the cost shouldn't the focus of this article it should be about the clothes. Because in fashion it doesn't matter what the cost is as long as it looks amazing.

[Psychomantic]

07:47 PM on 02/17/2011

FF

Most "style" stories here are written from the perspective of a (straight) 50 year old midwestern man:

Gorsh, a million dollars? Woah nelly! Gorsh, look'it all them darn faincy clotheses! Hey look'it what Latizia's wearing AGAIN. She's purty.

[ascension]

07:52 PM on 02/17/2011

True. Because "$1,750" is so far from being enough for "rent, utilities, groceries and a subway card" in Manhattan.

[Hardyman1966]

03:58 PM on 02/17/2011

Yawn.  He's still not terribly interesting.

[eliteandproud]

04:21 PM on 02/17/2011

I'd say he's gotten increasingly less interesting the more money he has at his disposal. The old DIY/"tin cup" days were better!

[bushwickfreddy]

03:46 PM on 02/17/2011

And the models got a dress and a handbag....