Do you want the bag with the portrait of your 4 -legged friend above? Marc Jacobs thinks about it

When photographs, dedications, tailor -made coats to express the love you feel towards your dog (or cat, or tartarug, or pigeon that it is) are not enough, Marc Jacobs thinks about it. Let’s talk about the new frontier of pet-style: The portrait on stock exchange. Not a flat pre -packaged print, but An authentic painting, handmade by hand Directly, with care and minutia, on the surface of yours It-Bag.

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Inaugurated last April – month dedicated to pets in different nations, starting from the United States – the extravagant initiative from the name Bark Jacobs (A word game: Bark means barking) Marc Jacobs comes to life and in selected retail sales partners in North America, Canada, Japan and London. Just plan your shopping trip on the brand’s website, go on site in the company of your four -legged partner (or with its image), choose the desired leather bag. Et voilà, selected local artists will be ready to transform it into a sweet checkeredà-porter. Without additional costs.

Bark Jacobs by Marc Jacobs.

The last appointment (currently in progress) in Bridgehampton, New York, kicked off on the evening of July 24 in a pop-up al The hubfollowed by two whole days of purchases pet-friendly. Among the specimens of available bags we find the typical Tote Bag, Sack Bag And Dual Bagtogether with the new arrivals Tea Dakota And Tea Glam.

To do the honors of the house is the artist Zac Crawford. Curious to note that, after graduating in illustration at the Parsons, in recent years Crawford had retired to that of Washington Square Park to draw animals portraits to raise some money with his art. Until a member of the Marc Jacobs staff passing by chance next to him he took his contact information. AND partnership was. “I thought:” Let me go to the park to earn something quickly. ” I would never have expected to be at the Marc Jacobs headquarters to paint pets »he told WWD.

Marc Jacobs and his dog Neville Jacobs.

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After all, who if not Marc Jacobs could organize such an event? He, who even gave his surname to his dog, Neville. A black and white bull terrier defined by T magazine “The most diligent dog of fashion”, with an Instagram profile as a true star and a portfolio of shooting photographic on magazines covers such as Paper And Architectural Digest. In addition to twenty a biographical book on the chronicles of his social life, Neville Jacobs: I’m Marc’s Dogpublished in 2016. What can I say, what is a bag painted as an affectionate dedication? For him, the minimum.