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Article: MARC JACOBS TO SHOW IN MILAN; COMPANY PRESIDENT ROBERT DUFFY SAYS "IT'S TIME TO CONCENTRATE" ON MEN'S AS DESIGNER PLANS RUNWAY EVENT.
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- Daily News Record
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- March 12, 2007
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Byline: Jean Scheidnes
NEW YORK - Marc Jacobs is preparing to shake up Milan this summer when he will show his men's ready-to-wear collection on the runway for the first time in years. And this time around, it will not have to surrender any limelight to women's wear.
"Marc and I just had a conversation about how it's time to concentrate on it," Robert Duffy, the designer's longtime partner and president of Marc Jacobs International, said last week. After a period of tweaking, "the collection is mature, it's developed, it's full and complete," Duffy said of the men's line.
It is also fully merchandised with shoes, underwear and all kinds of ...