“I’ve seen museum exhibits and catalogs, but I thought it would be fun to look at how couture is made and not be academic about it,” she says.
In a toast, Coppola recounted being a clumsy 15-year-old with braces when she arrived in Paris for her internship with Chanel. What started as an intimidating however thrilling expertise for Coppola has blossomed right into a now decades-long collaborative relationship. From being photographed as an adolescent by Lagerfeld—a putting portrait of the younger artist featured within the e book—to working with Chanel to design Priscilla Presley’s iconic wedding ceremony gown in her most up-to-date movie, Priscilla, the model has performed an instrumental function in her profession.
“My mom’s friend Jeanette in San Francisco used to let me come into her closet, and she would give me her Chanel ballet flats when they were worn out,” Coppola says. “I would get hand-me-downs and I was so thrilled.”
Now, experiencing a full-circle second at Wednesday’s dinner, she accomplished her remarks by calling their newest collaboration “a dream come true.”
Sunday Rose and Romy MarsPhotograph by Myles Hendrik. Courtesy of Chanel.
Coppola was additionally joined by her husband, Phoenix frontman Thomas Mars and their teenage daughters, singer-songwriter (and budding TikTok auteur) Romy Mars, and Cosima Mars, who noticed Thomas from throughout the room in a sea of fashions and actors (“Hi, Dad! Miss you!”), making the star-studded affair really feel extra like a quaint household dinner. Both daughters, Coppola says, usually borrow her assortment of Chanel sneakers and luggage, which she subsequently has to trace down. “Sometimes [my Chanel] migrates into my daughter’s room,” Coppola says with amusing.
Fellow mother-daughter duo, Karen Elson and Scarlett White, have been additionally in attendance, chatting with Kirsten Dunst by the bar as Jon Hamm and his spouse, Anna Osceola, sipped cocktails and chatted with Lynn Hirschberg close by. Eventually, the entire younger It ladies, like Gracie Abrams, Sunday Rose Urban, Chase Sui Wonders, and Havana Rose Liu have been joined by Coppola’s daughters, holding fingers and catching up, in a scene that would have been an outtake from considered one of Coppola’s movies.