{"id":3921,"date":"2025-07-23T17:32:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T00:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/?p=3921"},"modified":"2025-07-23T17:32:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T00:32:19","slug":"marc-jacobs-offering-hand-painted-pet-portraits-in-the-hamptons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/?p=3921","title":{"rendered":"Marc Jacobs Offering Hand-painted Pet Portraits in the Hamptons"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tAs part of the ongoing \u201cBark Jacobs\u201d initiative, artist Zac Crawford will be handpainting pet portraits on Marc Jacobs handbags, during a three-day event that starts Thursday night at The Hub in the Hamptons.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe two-hour kickoff celebration will be held on July 24, and two full days of appointments will follow at the luxury retail co-op in Bridgehampton, N.Y. Through a partnership with local artists, Marc Jacobs is offering complimentary in-store pet portraits with the purchase of one of the designer\u2019s leather handbags. Crawford will be doing the honors in the Hamptons with another artist and he personally expects to paint hundreds of pets on the designer accessories.<\/p>\n

\n\tCrawford has been drawing pet portraits in New York\u2019s Washington Square Park for the past few years. One day a Marc Jacobs staffer, who oversees brand activations, happened to pass by the artist, grabbed his contact information and a partnership was born. After attending LaGuardia High School and majoring in illustration at Parsons, Crawford thought about working in character design, animation or comics, but secure salaried jobs are scarce for artists. He said the big question was, \u201c\u2019How do I make a living as an artist?\u2019 I thought, \u2018Let me go to the park and try to make some fast money as an artist.\u2019 Never did I expect to be at Marc Jacobs HQ painting pets.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Marc Jacobs opportunity, as well as collaborations with other brands like Moleskin, have meant that Crawford hasn\u2019t been back to Washington Square Park in a while. This new trajectory still delivers the same favorite part of his job \u2014 \u201cseeing people\u2019s reactions [and] how happy it makes them. There\u2019s a lot of laughter and tears \u2014 happy tears, of course. That\u2019s been the beauty of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the past year, Crawford and Ben Silberstein started the artists agency Juicebox New York to work with brands to offer experiences with artists including ones for the Bark Jacobs events nationwide. \u201cWe think that as we enter this bizarre digital age with AI, human interaction and human creativity will be more valued,\u201d Crawford said. \u201cThe Marc Jacobs event is a good example of that. People get to see an artist working with their hands on a bag and bring their pet to life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile there is never a shortage of dogs for Crawford\u2019s pet portraits, the New York-born artist has also painted ones of turtles, guinea pigs, pigeons and even a plant once. As for keeping pigeons as pets, he said, \u201cYou know in New York, everyone\u2019s got every type of pet. Luckily, having gone to art school, we can paint any type of pet.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tShoppers who buy select Marc Jacobs handbags can have portraits of their pets painted on them.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tThis weekend\u2019s pop-up will feature Marc Jacobs\u2019 \u201cTote Bag,\u201d \u201cSack Bag\u201d and \u201cDual Bag,\u201d as well as the new handbag styles, \u201cThe Dakota\u201d and \u201cThe Glam.\u201d (Fans looking for the designer will not find him there.) But many know how he appreciates hand-drawn images. During his Louis Vuitton years, he first enlisted graffiti artist Stephen Sprouse to cover handbags for the luxury house in 2000.<\/p>\n

\n\tJust back from an eight-week trip to Japan, Crawford said that Japanese and Korean artists have inspired him the most especially Kim Jung Gi, who can draw anything from imagination and memory. \u201cSeeing his full imagination pour out of him onto the page was really inspiring. And seeing how he draws animals and humans with perfect anatomy made me want to draw everything that I could. Usually when I travel, I bring a journal to document all of my experiences and the people that I meet,\u201d Crawford said.<\/p>\n

\n\tPet lovers, who want to be sure they secure a booking this weekend, can schedule one on the Marc Jacobs site or via TheHub\u2019s Instagram. There will also be upcoming events in Marc Jacobs\u2019 stores.<\/p>\n

\n\tGrowing up in Woodstock, N.Y., Crawford had a Great Dane, a Labrador and a cat, but his travel schedule has made him pet free for the time being. \u201cFortunately, Marc Jacobs has given me this opportunity where customers come in with their pets so I still have that affectionate experience with the pets. I get to pet them, cuddle them a little bit and paint [a rendition] of them. So I get my fill of having pets without any of the more tedious parts of being a pet owner,\u201d Crawford said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As part of the ongoing \u201cBark Jacobs\u201d initiative, artist Zac Crawford will be handpainting pet portraits on Marc Jacobs handbags, during a three-day event that starts Thursday night at The Hub in the Hamptons. The two-hour kickoff celebration will be held on July 24, and two full days of appointments will follow at the luxury retail co-op in Bridgehampton, N.Y. Through a partnership with local artists, Marc Jacobs is offering complimentary in-store pet portraits with the purchase of one of the designer\u2019s leather handbags. Crawford will be doing the honors in the Hamptons with another artist and he personally expects to paint hundreds of pets on the designer accessories. Crawford has been drawing pet portraits in New York\u2019s Washington Square Park for the past few years. One day a Marc Jacobs staffer, who oversees brand activations, happened to pass by the artist, grabbed his contact information and a partnership was born. After attending LaGuardia High School and majoring in illustration at Parsons, Crawford thought about working in character design, animation or comics, but secure salaried jobs are scarce for artists. He said the big question was, \u201c\u2019How do I make a living as an artist?\u2019 I thought, \u2018Let me go to the park and try to make some fast money as an artist.\u2019 Never did I expect to be at Marc Jacobs HQ painting pets.\u201d The Marc Jacobs opportunity, as well as collaborations with other brands like Moleskin, have meant that Crawford hasn\u2019t been back to Washington Square Park in a while. This new trajectory still delivers the same favorite part of his job \u2014 \u201cseeing people\u2019s reactions [and] how happy it makes them. There\u2019s a lot of laughter and tears \u2014 happy tears, of course. That\u2019s been the beauty of it.\u201d In the past year, Crawford and Ben Silberstein started the artists agency Juicebox New York to work with brands to offer experiences with artists including ones for the Bark Jacobs events nationwide. \u201cWe think that as we enter this bizarre digital age with AI, huma…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}