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Andy Warhol (August 6 1928 ~ February 22 1987) he would have been 80.

“Marc Jacobs might not think he is the new Andy Warhol, but Interview Magazine sure thinks so…
With a white mop of hair, crisp button-down shirt and tie, the designer looks mighty Warholian on the cover of the magazine’s June-July double issue. White wigs and fake eyelashes aside, Jacobs does have some Warhol tendencies — the way he runs his business, his artlike advertising, stores that feel like clubs and collaborations with Stephen Sprouse, Takashi Murakami and Richard Prince — according to Interview’s Glenn O’Brien, who penned the cover story. “Andy was always talking about how new art is business art,” O’Brien said.
Jacobs, who crossed paths with the Pop Art artist a few times, was floored to be the front man. But he is still not sold on the similarities. “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.’”
As of Thursday, Jacobs will be seeing more than quadruple, when 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. Proceeds from the $35 T-shirts and $15 tote bags will benefit the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.”
Jacobs has lensman Todd Eberle to thank for this particular 15 minutes of fame. He is the one who casually said to O’Brien at a dinner party, “Gee, Marc Jacobs is the new Andy Warhol,” O’Brien said. “That kind of clicked in my head.” wwd.com

Photographed by Mikael Jansson.