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Is Marc Jacobs Considering a Line for ‘Above Average’ Sizes?

Robert Duffy, Marc Jacobs’s business partner, is the latest fashion head to weigh in on the whole plus-size thing. Via the MarcJacobsInt Twitter account, he wrote:


“Your [sic] right. We gotta do larger sizes. I’m with you. As soon as I get back to NY. I’m on it! It will take me about a year. But stay with us.”

He even says he’d consider producing a Jacobs line for “above average”-size people, which could possibly translate to sizes 18 or greater (the label already makes a 16, but most stores don’t carry it). Tweets Duffy:


“Your [sic] right. We gotta do larger sizes. I’m with you. As soon as I get back to NY. I’m on it! It will take me about a year. But stay with us.”

We reached out to Marc Jacobs’s handlers to confirm the tweet and get more info on the potential plus-size line, but haven’t heard back. Duffy has gotten into trouble for oversharing on the Internet before, so, you know, don’t get too excited. In more likely news, Duffy also announced the date for the opening of Bookmarc, MJ’s new Bleecker Street bookstore: September 15, which just so happens to be the same day as the big Jacobs spring 2011 show. And the NYFW madness begins …

Twitter.com/MarcJacobsInt [Twitter via Racked NY]

Is Marc Jacobs Considering a Line for ‘Above Average’ Sizes?