Marc Jacob refused Dior job because of psychiatrist

The fashion designer Marc Jacob has revealed he turned down the role of John Galliano’s successor as Dior's Creative Director after his psychiatrist advised him not to, making him realise it would not improve the "quality" of his life.

Speaking to WWD's Fern Mallis during a Q&A session in New York, Mark revealed: "It was actually my psychiatrist who said, 'How is this [Dior job] going to improve the quality of your life?' and I said, 'It's not.'

"I mean, two more shows - and after Galliano, what he has done - when am I going to live my life?"

Mark, 49, a successful creator of top labels Marc Jacobs and Marc by Marc Jacobs, admitted he "never dreamed" of becoming a designer to begin with as he thought the fashion industry would be a "very difficult" environment to work in.

He added: "Yeah, I'm a human being. I get hurt, too. There are very few, and I don't mean this in a bitchy way, journalists who I respect. I don't think a lot of them know what they're looking at.

"I don't sometimes feel the criticism is valid. I'm fine with constructive criticism, but I'm not so good with stupidity. It's one thing to say 'I like or I don't like', but to misread or mislabel something or to be out of sorts because it was raining, or a late show or you were hungry. That just all feels not valid."