{"id":169247,"date":"2026-03-20T14:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/169247\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T14:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:24:08","slug":"marc-jacobs-and-sofia-coppola-on-new-doc-friendship-and-90s-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/169247\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc Jacobs and Sofia Coppola on New Doc, Friendship and ’90s New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tLong before Marc Jacobs<\/a> was filling his runways with A-list front rows or Sofia Coppola<\/a> was making Oscar-winning films, the pair were simply two twenty-something creatives coming up together in\u00a0a very specific\u00a0moment of downtown New York. Their first meeting at Jacobs\u2019 1992 \u201cgrunge\u201d collection for Perry Ellis set the tone for the scene they continued to orbit through the \u201990s \u2014 one defined by stripped-down anti-glamour and effortlessness.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThey may have dropped the grunge, but\u00a0they\u2019ve\u00a0maintained\u00a0one of fashion\u2019s most famous friendships. When producers approached Jacobs about a documentary, he agreed only if Coppola directed. \u201cWith Sofia, I knew we\u2019d be comfortable with each other,\u201d he tells Variety from a corner booth at Cafe Cluny in the West Village, his signature nails curled around a glass of Arnold Palmer. \u201cThere wouldn\u2019t be all those documentary cliches: the interrogations, the dramatic music playing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tCoppola\u00a0wasn\u2019t as\u00a0sure. \u201cI don\u2019t know how to make a documentary,\u201d she recalls thinking. Being close friends with the subject added pressure: \u201cIf it\u2019s for Marc, it has to be good.\u201d But when Jacobs began work on his Spring\/Summer 2024 collection, she thought, \u201cOkay, we can\u2019t miss this moment.\u201d She called her brother Roman Coppola and headed to Jacobs\u2019 SoHo studio.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPenske Media via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 70-minute film plays more like a visual scrapbook, weaving archival footage of their \u201990s heyday with the pop-culture touchstones that shaped him.\u00a0There\u2019s\u00a0no professional lighting or makeup; Jacobs is often tired, occasionally sucking on a bedazzled vape between questions. Watching one scene for the first time, he recalls thinking, \u201cWhat the hell is happening with my hair there? I would\u2019ve never let that happen with another director.\u201d For Coppola, that intimacy was the point: \u201cI wanted it to feel like\u00a0no one\u00a0but I could have made it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAhead of \u201cMarc by Sofia,\u201d which releases Friday, Coppola and Jacobs discuss their \u201990s heyday, the evolution of personal style in New York City and their personal muses.<\/p>\n

\t\tThe doc\u00a0doesn\u2019t\u00a0include any of Marc\u2019s personal life. Was this intentional?\u00a0\t<\/p>\n

\n\tSofia Coppola: We were really figuring it out as we went. We never even talked about including or not including any of that. I never want to\u00a0pry.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tMarc Jacobs: There is that part where Sofia comes to my\u00a0house\u00a0and I started talking about my childhood. I wish I\u00a0hadn\u2019t\u00a0done that because that felt like a [typical] documentary.\u00a0It\u2019s\u00a0not a big deal, and it was only like 30 seconds, but I\u00a0sort of felt\u00a0like, \u201cWhy did I go there?\u201d But\u00a0I think it\u00a0was just in the\u00a0moment,\u00a0I was being very reflective. But I\u00a0didn\u2019t\u00a0want it to feel like a news special, like Diane Sawyer.<\/p>\n

\n\tCoppola: But I liked listening to your childhood because I think that all of what we do comes from that place in a relatable way.\u00a0Also\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0obsessed with that scene on your couch, lounging in your Prada robe.<\/p>\n

\t\tThat was\u00a0the day after the show?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tCoppola: Exactly. The \u201cPost Art Done\u201d crash. I wanted to capture that to help make sense of the whole cycle. Like, now\u00a0he\u2019s\u00a0gonna\u00a0get up and do it again. And we all feel like that. I always feel like that after a film, where\u00a0there\u2019s\u00a0a crash because\u00a0there\u2019s\u00a0all this adrenaline, and\u00a0you\u2019re\u00a0with all these people, and then\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0like when a summer camper goes home. I can relate to that letdown.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tASSOCIATED PRESS<\/p>\n

\t\tSocial media has made it easier than ever for younger generations to replicate\u00a0people\u2019s\u00a0looks.\u00a0Do you think\u00a0there\u2019s\u00a0been a loss of personal style compared to the \u201890s?\u00a0\t<\/p>\n

\n\tCoppola: Oh\u00a0yeah, I heard\u00a0there\u2019s\u00a0all these young guys trying to look like JFK Jr. now. [laughs]\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tJacobs: I mean, in my mother\u2019s generation every young woman her age wanted to look like Elizabeth Taylor and to be as glamorous. She became the archetype for a sexy, beautiful woman.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tCoppola: For me, it was Kate Moss. But living in New York, I love seeing people all dressed up and going out in a full look.\u00a0It\u2019s\u00a0nice to see what teenagers spend their time on.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\t\tYou say in the film that people felt \u201cscandalized by anything natural\u201d in the \u201890s because it was hard to replicate.\u00a0\t<\/p>\n

\n\tJacobs: It was completely the opposite\u00a0from\u00a0the glamour of the \u201980s that came before, which was like lighting, makeup, glamour. One of the things that was so dramatic about grunge and that whole era of photography was that it was about this girl who was 5\u20197\u2033, she\u00a0wasn\u2019t\u00a0a glamazon. And the most beautiful pictures of her were with no makeup, in a pair of panties and a bra. No hair, no makeup.\u00a0That\u2019s\u00a0really a problem for women because they\u00a0can\u2019t\u00a0take a picture to the beauty parlor.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\t\tYour most recent collection evokes a lot of that \u201890s grunge. Was that a coincidence?\u00a0\t<\/p>\n

\n\tJacobs: We\u00a0didn\u2019t\u00a0sit down at the table and say, \u201cLet\u2019s do a collection right around the movie.\u201d\u00a0I just think certain things\u00a0came up that triggered a memory. Like we put together this wooden-like shirt with a skirt. Even though it\u00a0didn\u2019t\u00a0look at all like its original X-Girl T-shirt with a mini skirt, it was the same idea: the perfect baby tee with a perfect mini skirt, which was very much part of that time\u00a0period\u2019s\u00a0aesthetic.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\t\tYou both have said your art is about pure entertainment and fun. During fraught times, do you feel pressure to make a statement rather than be a form of escape?\u00a0\t<\/p>\n

\n\tCoppola: I\u2019m\u00a0torn because as an artist it gets confusing.\u00a0You\u00a0don\u2019t\u00a0want to make something light because\u00a0we\u2019re\u00a0in this\u00a0really heavy\u00a0time, but you\u00a0don\u2019t\u00a0want to make something dark.\u00a0For\u00a0me, it\u2019s\u00a0about making something inspiring about creativity in a time where people are down about the same thing. There\u2019s always beauty in creativity.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long before Marc Jacobs was filling his runways with A-list front rows or Sofia Coppola was making Oscar-winning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69362,9,24,55,54,56,31860],"class_list":["post-169247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-marc-jacobs","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-sofia-coppola"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}