Marc Jacobs says he'd dress Luigi Mangione at trial in podcast interview with fashion designer

Fashion designer Marc Jacobs said in a new interview that he'd be open to styling the confessed assassin Luigi Mangione at trial — and that the killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is doing a fine job as a "trendsetter" while dressing himself already.

In a sitdown with Vanity Fair's Lie Detector Test podcast, the host noted that celebrities including Winona Rider, Courtney Love and Lil' Kim had all worn Jacobs' designs in court in the early 2000s.

Then she slid him a photo of Mangione and asked, "Would you be open to styling this person for his trial?" Jacobs, wearing a black Lacoste shirt, laughed as he looked at the photo, then replied, "Um... yes." LUIGI MANGIONE'S NEW YORK MURDER TRIAL ADJOURNED UNTIL DECEMBER OVER DOUBLE JEOPARDY CONCERNS "I think he looks pretty good the way he dresses, actually," the designer said.

Trial fashion can draw a lot of attention, going back to OJ Simpson's so-called trial of the century in the mid-1990s, which was televised and involved the most famous American ever charged with murder at the time.

Donna Rotunno, a criminal defense attorney and Fox News contributor, said the media's treatment of Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Marcia Clark during Simpson's trial influenced her courtroom style choices when she represented Harvey Weinstein.

Still, she said, she was disappointed to see public support for an admitted killer like Mangione.

"I find it sad," she said in an interview Thursday.

"I find that sad that a designer would in any way, shape or form want to support that." Mangione has admitted to stalking Thompson , a 50-year-old father of two, from Minnesota to New York City, where he shot him in the back on Dec.

4, 2024.

His fashion choices have made headlines ever since — beginning with the high-end backpack he allegedly ditched in Central Park while fleeing the crime scene.

In March 2025, he showed up in the courtroom wearing Rockport loafers and no socks — a detail that a photographer captured in a picture showing shackles around his bare ankles.

FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON X Later, prosecutors revealed that someone had slipped Mangione a pair of heart-shaped notes hidden within a pair of socks sent to the court along with other clothes he wore for the hearing. (Only one of the notes was addressed to Mangoine — the other was meant for someone named "Joan.") "He’s kind of become a character and this cult hero to some people, and it’s pretty sad to see," Rotunno said.

A court officer seized the notes but allowed Mangione to wear the socks.

However, "he felt that ‘they did not look good’" and took them off, according to prosecutors.