Talk about missing the Marc.
Lit by Char founder Char Defrancesco can’t hold a candle to husband Marc Jacobs‘ closet-tidying skills.
“He’s not a great folder,” Jacobs, 60, told Pvnew Style exclusively at the WSJ Magazine Innovator Awards earlier this week. “He has a lot of talent in other areas; folding is not one of them.”
Defrancesco even once purchased a folding board in an attempt to improve his abilities — but according to Jacobs, it was a major fail.
“He was trying to impress me by showing me that he was making an effort to fold,” the fastidious former Louis Vuitton creative director explained.
“I think the folding board and the idea of folding suffered a very immediate death.”
Jacobs, who worked at clothing stores as a teen, proudly shared that he’s a skilled folder, with Defrancesco chiming in that “he’s quick.”
Revealing that perhaps folded clothes are a small bone of contention in their household, the designer corrected him.
“It’s not about speed, it’s about tidiness,” he clarified. “Folding is about making everything fit neatly into a designated shape.”
Jacobs added that badly folded clothes are “not my worst nightmare but it is among my recurring nightmares.”
Despite now being a big-shot designer, he said he still does all his own hanging and folding to this day.
“It’s very important to me,” he told us. “I really believe it’s very important to take care of beautiful things; that’s what I was taught when I was brought up, and I like it. I find that it’s very important to me.”
Jacobs and Defrancesco got married at the beginning of April 2019, one year after the CFDA Award winner proposed to his beau with a flash mob at Chipotle.
Other celebs at the WSJ Magazine Innovator Awards, which were held at MoMA, included Kylie Jenner, Martin Scorsese, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Lily Aldridge, Linda Evangelista, Trevor Noah and Molly Gordon.
Timothée Chalamet was also on hand, and although he and girlfriend Jenner sat together at the dinner, they did not pose together on the red carpet.
The starry night was sponsored by Harry Winston, Hyundai Motor America, Montblanc, Rémy Martin, Roche Bobois and La Mer.
