It being a Sofia Coppola film, however, it is not a biopic as other people might conceive. This autumn will see the release of Coppola’s eighth film, Priscilla, starring Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi, a biopic adapted from Priscilla Presley’s 1985 bestseller Elvis and Me. It immediately established the dreamy, tragicomic, feminine aesthetic that is a signature of all her films.īill Murray on the set of Lost in Translation © Courtesy of Sofia Coppola and Mack She wrote, produced and directed her debut feature, The Virgin Suicides, starring Kirsten Dunst and Kathleen Turner, in 1999. As a fine-arts student at CalArts she anticipated becoming a magazine editor, or going into fashion, or photography, before finding that filmmaking “combined all the things I like”. Initially, she resisted doing anything so “lame” as to enter the family business, unlike her cousins Nicolas Cage or Jason Schwartzman, her aunt Talia Shire, brother Roman, grandparents, uncle and most others members of the clan. Her parents, Francis Ford Coppola and the artist and documentary filmmaker Eleanor Jessie Coppola, sat at the centre of a sprawling cinematic dynasty and holidays were spent on different sets around the world. I mean, I grew up in the country in California, and there was no connection to any of that.”Ĭoppola did grow up in the country, but no one would say she had an ordinary childhood. And then there were all the models, like Veronica Webb, and a lot of these cool, older kids… and it was just so exciting to do. It was a big moment in my life.” “I mean, it was the ’80s,” she continues, “and the height of fashion was Paris, and Chanel. “And then I went back the summer I was 16. She speaks in slow, softly looping sentences with Valley Girl inflections that recall someone far younger than she is. “ Carole Bouquet was friends with my parents and she arranged for me to be an intern in the summer,” she explains. It’s an easy collaborative relationship that was cemented when she first interned for Chanel, under Karl Lagerfeld, when she was still only 15. She is also, half-seriously, trying to persuade “the guy who does the sports stuff” to make branded paddles for pickleball. Her latest project is a knitwear capsule for the house’s Scottish Métiers d’Art brand, Barrie – “my dream travel wardrobe”. Jewellery throughout, Coppola’s own © Melodie McDanielĬoppola has worked as a Chanel brand ambassador with the artistic director Virginie Viard since 2019. Carhartt trousers and Chanel leather and gold-metal chain CC belt, Coppola’s own. Sofia Coppola wears Chanel tweed jacket, £8,660. The girls are currently summering with their French cousins, even though they are now “total New York kids”. She lived there full-time with her husband, Thomas Pablo Croquet (aka Thomas Mars), lead singer of the indie pop band Phoenix, and their two daughters, Romy and Cosima, until they moved back to New York more permanently for their daughters’ schooling. She offers a handshake and a softly spoken greeting, then asks the waiter, very politely, if she could have a pot of tea.Ĭoppola is in Paris for the Chanel couture show, taking place by the river, for which she has helped with the set design. But she has enjoyed a long relationship with the city where she keeps a home in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The jolie laide looks for which she was eviscerated when she starred in her father Francis Ford Coppola’s ill-fated The Godfather Part III have matured into a noble beauty, and yet she still has a youthful mien. Now 52, but indistinguishable from the girlish figure that starred in the Marc Jacobs fragrance ads shot by Juergen Teller in the early 2000s, Coppola wears quilted leather sandals, pale, wide jeans and a fluorescent-pink Chanel T-shirt: Barbiecore, if Barbiecore were chic. The scene exudes the same insouciant glamour: a shiver of tables are occupied by various grandees of the fashion and film industry, all discussing business, while a retinue of waiters in dinky uniforms manoeuvre baskets piled with breakfast breads. Sofia Coppola enters the Salon Marie-Louise at the Ritz Paris looking exactly like someone you would encounter in a Sofia Coppola film.
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