Winona Ryder may soon be gracing advertising billboards wearing creations by the marque whose designs she tried to steal.
The actress was caught attempting to shoplift a number of items, including a Marc Jacobs top, from an exclusive clothes store in Los Angeles in December 2001. "We would like to use her," said the design house's president Robert Duffy. "Of course it will be controversial, but it won't be in a negative way."
The 31-year-old wore Marc Jacobs coats and dresses throughout most of her trial for theft and vandalism. She was convicted on November 6 for stealing more than £3,500 in clothes and damaging a £500 Calvin Klein purse during the shoplifting spree at the Saks Fifth Avenue store in Beverly Hills.
The raven-haired star, who was ordered to complete 480 hours of community service and fined £6,500 over the incident, was told by the judge: "If you steal again, you'll go to jail."
While the Marc Jacobs marque is clearly hopeful it can capitalise on the high-profile case, the store itself already benefited, according to defence attorneys. In the year following the incident, Saks turned a profit "for the first time in I don't know how long", said lawyer Mark Geragos.
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