Growing up, no one was more fascinated than Sofia Coppola. Hollywood legendary New York daughters Francis Ford and Eleanor Coppola directed my favorite movies as teenagers: Virgin suicide,,,,, Lost in Translation,,,,, Marie Antoinette,,,,, somewhere. She is also the reason why I long to be a director, actually Possible As a woman, in the world before Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Director.
But her style is also problematic. It’s an IT-GIRL, he shrugged, a parcel shrugged – a preference for a laid-back, low-key look, they also always have a certain polish, and never doubtless. Throughout the 90s, she lived in silk dresses, glitz in her apartment, and returned to New York as soon as possible before strolling in denim and cashmere. Her ensemble is easy, a careless intellectual, and a very precise understanding and appreciation of fashion.
This relatively worry-free heyday is about to be Mark of SofiaAuteur’s first documentary, will document the rise of her longtime friend and collaborator Marc Jacobs. Called a highly personal love letter and an ode to the 90s of New York, it will surely be packed with a fashion moment worth a while, the couple and their shiny circle of friends.
Before the premiere of the Venice Film Festival, we revisited 36 of Sofia’s best looking back photos, tracking her development from industry successor to fashionable young actors, models and designers, and ultimately one of the most accomplished filmmakers of her generation.