Marc Jacobs, Married?

(NEW YORK) The tips began flooding our in-boxes last week that chicette-fave designer Marc Jacobs and his beau of three months, Brazilian ising executive Lorenzo Martone, planned to be married this weekend in Paris. Then on Friday, Jacobs updated his Facebook status to "Marc Jacobs is very busy." Busy getting married? The Daily investigates!

Turns out the designer is currently in Paris--toiling away at the Louis Vuitton offices, in fact, pre-Ibiza. (Yes, they still close for August in blessed Europe.) "He's here right now," said a member of the press office, when we asked where to send flowers. Would a recent groom be, of all places, au bureau?

So far, a store manager at the Marc Jacobs Palais Royal boutique in Paris hasn't seen the designer. "He was not in the Paris store this weekend, but sometimes it happens when he is in town," she said. As for the marriage rumors? "I don't know about his private life." A salesperson at the Marc Jacobs store on Bleecker Street remained equally mum. "We have no reports or anything like that," the salesperson said. "I am sure they would have sent something out. But one of my friends told me about the marriage. I have no idea if it's true or not."

One man who is always in the know--Davé Cheung of Marc's regular chinois restaurant Davé--seemed shocked by the news. "I don't know about this," he said on a break from dinner service. "We cannot get married in France yet--here, we have not yet passed such a law. In Spain, yes. In San Francisco, yes. But not Paris. To get married here is impossible--unless it is to a lady. They can have a celebration but not a legal marriage. Hmm. Call Robert Duffy!"

We did, and have yet to hear a response. As for Marc's purported honeymoon in Ibiza? Turns out the trip's been planned for quite some time. In mid-May, just after Jacobs met his alleged husband Martone, the August jaunt was already in the works. "Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin have tried to convince me for years to go to Ibiza, and this year I finally gave in!" he told The Daily during a recent interview.

As for the official version? "They're just rumors," said a representative at Marc Jacobs' press office at Louis Vuitton in Paris. "There's no truth to it at all." Kate Waters in the Marc Jacobs public relations office in New York concurred. "Marc did not get married--nor does he have any plans to."
ASHLEY BAKER & NOLA WEINSTEIN