MARC JACOBS TO SHOW IN MILAN; COMPANY PRESIDENT ROBERT DUFFY SAYS "IT'S TIME TO CONCENTRATE" ON MEN'S AS DESIGNER PLANS RUNWAY EVENT.

Daily News Record, March, 2007 by Scheidnes, Jean

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 ...