Marc Jacobs is owned by MJ Topco (the United States), which has held the brand since 1 September 2026, when G-III Apparel Group and WHP Global acquired it from LVMH.[1] Before MJ Topco, Marc Jacobs was owned by LVMH from 1997 to 2026.[2][1]
Marc Jacobs is the New York fashion house its founder started in 1984. LVMH bought a majority stake in 1997, and Jacobs designed Louis Vuitton ready-to-wear for sixteen years alongside it. In September 2026 LVMH sold the house: the name and intellectual property went to MJ Topco, owned equally by G-III Apparel Group and WHP Global, which licenses them to G-III to run the Marc Jacobs shops and websites.
Ownership timeline of Marc Jacobs
1997 – 2026LVMH — acquired 1997[2][1]verifiedLVMH acquired a majority stake in 1997. Its exact percentage at the time of the 2026 sale is not stated in the closing filing, so no stake figure is recorded.
MJ Topco is a privately held company headquartered in United States. Brandtree records 1 brand under its control.
MJ Topco is the joint venture that has owned the Marc Jacobs intellectual property since 1 September 2026, when affiliates of G-III Apparel Group and WHP Global bought Marc Jacobs from LVMH. Each holds 50 per cent of its units, so neither controls it. G-III runs the operating business under an exclusive licence from the venture that lasts until December 2041 and can renew for ten further five-year periods.
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,549 brands that began in the United States.
478 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Marc Jacobs is not one of them.
LVMH sold Marc Jacobs, which it had controlled since acquiring a majority stake in 1997, to G-III Apparel Group and WHP Global. The purchase split the house in two: the intellectual property went into MJ Topco, LLC, owned 50 per cent by a G-III affiliate and 50 per cent by a WHP Global affiliate, while G-III took the operating business and an exclusive licence from the joint venture to run Marc Jacobs shops and e-commerce, running to December 2041 with ten five-year renewals. No price for the whole transaction appears in the filings.
LVMH took a majority of the Marc Jacobs house and appointed its founder to design ready-to-wear for Louis Vuitton, a role he held for sixteen years. He had been dismissed from Perry Ellis five years earlier over a grunge collection now regarded as a landmark. Only the year is documented here.
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