Jacobs is posing in the nude, painted in Sprouse's graffiti for Harper's Bazaar's January issue, to show his admiration for the late designer and to promote a new, limited edition collection of accessories and ready-to-wear. Sprouse's graffiti prints and Day-Glo clothes was a defining aesthetic of the early Eighties.

"I don't have a problem taking my clothes off, as anybody who has picked up a magazine in the past year could tell you," Jacobs said. "I had no qualms or shame about it but knew fully well that any full frontal nudity wouldn't be appropriate for Harper's Bazaar."

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