Still think the ‘devil’ wears Prada? Fashion has moved on, she now wears Sasuphi<\/a><\/p>\nMarc, By Sofia,\u00a0which opens in US theatres Friday (March 20), is an evocative, and very Coppola, collage of Jacobs\u2019 influences, his biography and his team at work putting together a ready-to-wear collection.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019ve never done anything like this where there isn\u2019t a plan or a script,\u201d Coppola said.<\/p>\n
“What I was trying to do is show his creative process around this one collection and then interweave inspiration and references and artists who collaborated with him to have this full portrait.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was a very lo-fi production, they said. Sometimes it would just be Coppola coming into the office with her own handheld camera. Sometimes her brother Roman Coppola would come to help.<\/p>\n
Coppola had never done a feature length documentary before and found the process exciting, though she said it\u2019s not signalling a new phase or director for her as a filmmaker.<\/p>\n
She also got to see some of the behind the scenes things she\u2019s rarely privy to, including being backstage at a runway show.<\/p>\n
“I had total freedom, which was great. I was just filming what interested me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
“It was really the same as like taking snapshots, which wasn\u2019t unfamiliar to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
The two met in the early 1990s in New York, when Coppola asked her mother if she could go see the Perry Ellis show that Jacobs was working on.<\/p>\n
They quickly hit it off, bonding over shared loves of art, music, fashion and films, and have collaborated many times, on handbags, dresses, commercials and more.<\/p>\n
Jacobs has visited her film sets and even provided clothes for some of her characters, including some of the coats Scarlett Johansson wore in Lost In Translation.<\/p>\n
While Coppola wanted to acknowledge their friendship, even making a little cameo in her film, she also didn\u2019t want it to be about her or even them, necessarily.<\/p>\n
The focus would remain on Jacobs.<\/p>\n
“I didn\u2019t want it to be too much about me,\u201d Coppola said. “But I wanted it to feel that it\u2019s personal and made by me and that I\u2019m part of it and in that way it\u2019s not just a generic interview or portrait.\u201d<\/p>\n
In addition to the behind the scenes of designing the Spring 2024 ready-to-wear collection, Marc By Sofia\u00a0is full of film and art references, with clips from Hello, Dolly!,\u00a0All That Jazz,\u00a0Sweet Charity\u00a0and many more of Jacobs\u2019 most beloved films.<\/p>\n
He was particularly blown away that she was able to get the rights to use the clips.<\/p>\n
“It made me feel very special. And I couldn\u2019t imagine all those things coming through for just anyone,\u201d Jacobs said.<\/p>\n
“I felt like it was okay\u00a0because it was for Sofia. That may not be the truth, but that\u2019s the way I like to think of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
It also includes some biography, big career moments, and some rare glimpses of Jacobs\u2019 grandmother, an influential figure in his life who he lived with as a teen in New York and who instilled in him the importance of caring for beautiful clothes.<\/p>\n
Read more:\u00a0The curious case of a woman named Emily who redefined Parisian fashion<\/a><\/p>\nAfter the runway show, Coppola and her brother visit Jacobs at his home where, in his silk pajamas, he discusses his comedown.<\/p>\n
He likes to borrow a phrase coined by his friend, filmmaker Lana Wachowski, to describe the feeling: Post-art-um.<\/p>\n
“I just sort of just felt like it could have been any conversation,\u201d Jacobs said. “Nothing felt like director and subject. It just felt completely easy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Still, Jacobs was nervous the first time she screened it for him. He worried about what he was going to look like, and sound like, and what it was going to be.<\/p>\n
“In very typical me fashion, when it was over I said I don\u2019t hate myself after seeing it,\u201d Jacobs laughed.<\/p>\n
“I just thought it all felt natural. I wasn\u2019t pretending. There was just nothing synthetic or false or anything. So whether people like it or not, I know that I just felt good about me being me and Sofia, you know, sort of seeing that her way.\u201d\u00a0\u2013 AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neither Sofia Coppola nor Marc Jacobs were convinced a documentary was a good idea. Jacobs wasn\u2019t sure he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,1187,214224,167244,337,76390],"class_list":["post-551569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-fashion","tag-fashion-films","tag-marc-jacobs","tag-movies","tag-sofia-coppola"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}