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I'm really excited for this film to be released. She looks gorgeous in those two pics!
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Channelling Coco Chanel
From Audrey Tautou as the young Coco in a film, to Shirley MacLaine as the older Chanel on television, and with a third biopic en route, the legendary couturier is still making her stylish presence felt. By Rachel Shields
The Independent - Friday, 7 November 2008
When Coco Chanel uttered the now-famous phrase, "Fashion fades, only style remains the same", the French designer could not possibly have guessed how indelible her own mark on the world would be. As the woman who popularised the little black dress, the trouser suit and bobbed haircuts, Chanel's style legacy is unrivalled, and now, her personal narrative is up for grabs, with three biopics of the great designer currently either completed or in the pipeline.
While the name Coco Chanel is synonymous with style, none of these films focuses on her glittering career. Instead, film-makers have chosen to plumb the murkier depths of Chanel's private life, recreating her impoverished childhood and failed romances.
"Her story has been so embellished, it has become almost a mythical narrative," says Harold Koda, curator of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and author of Chanel. "It is like a soap opera, you really can't substantiate it."
Filming has just begun on the most prominent of these stories, Coco avant Chanel, to star the Amélie actress Audrey Tautou as Coco. Loosely based on L'Irrégulière, ou Mon itinéraire Chanel, a biography by Edmonde Charles-Roux, the film focuses on Chanel's early years and modest origins, about which she was notoriously reticent. "She was sensitive about her upbringing. It was hard for her to be in the middle of high society – she didn't feel like she belonged," says Carrie Stein, producer of the Living TV biopic Coco Chanel. The mini-series pulled in more than 20 million viewers when recently screened on the US channel Lifetime, and is slated to hit our screens early next year. "She knew her hats and dresses belonged, and that she had style and flair, but she wasn't comfortable, and maybe she always hid behind her clothes," says Stein.
The latest Chanel film to be announced is Chanel et Stravinsky: l'Histoire Secrète, which will explore the designer's relationship with the Russian composer, and is tipped to star Anna Mouglalis, currently the face of the Chanel perfume Allure.
Gabrielle Chanel, who would later count Picasso, Jean Renoir and Jean Cocteau among her friends, grew up in the Loire Valley, and gained the nickname "Coco" when performing for soldiers at a cabaret show. She set up her first shop on Paris's rue Cambon in 1910, with the help of a wealthy lover. "The period we are recreating is that of Coco before she was 'Chanel'," says Catherine Leterrier, costume director on Coco avant Chanel. "She was poor, but she had her own style. I wanted to show how she was different from the ladies of her time," says Leterrier. While the director Anne Fontaine will explore the woman behind the brand for much of the film, it will culminate in a runway show of classic Chanel designs. The film is set to be released in France in May 2009, with international screenings to follow later in the year.
The US series Coco Chanel, starring Shirley MacLaine as an older Coco, revolves around the designer's love affair with politician Arthur "Boy" Capel. "I didn't come at it from a fashion point of view," says Stein. "It's a Cinderella story of rags to riches, all based on fact." While the show was a hit with viewers, it doesn't appear to have gone down well with the fashion house. The label's chief designer Karl Lagerfeld is said to have collaborated on the costumes, but withdrew his support at the last minute and wouldn't endorse the film. A spokesperson denied the label had collaborated, but confirmed Lagerfeld would be supporting the feature films: "Karl Lagerfeld is not at all involved in the costume creations. However, Chanel and Mr Lagerfeld will be involved in making, for both movies, tweed suits for Coco Chanel at the end of her life."
Lagerfeld has been credited with reviving the house of Chanel, which had developed a stuffy image, during his 25 years at the helm. "It is Chanel today that makes us interested in Coco. Since the 1980s, the brand has come back – before that it had calcified," says Koda.
While clothes are central to the story of Chanel, the actresses tasked with bringing the legend to life have a difficult job. The designer was rumoured to have complained when Katharine rather than Audrey Hepburn played her in a Broadway musical of her life first performed in 1969. "Chanel would probably be horrified at the thought of Shirley MacLaine playing her," says Stein. "Obviously, Coco was French, but because we were making the series for an international audience, we opened it up. The minute MacLaine was suggested to me, it was done. Emotionally and psychologically, there are parallels between her and Coco."
While the story is framed around an older Coco, most of the film consists of flashbacks to Coco's twenties, when she is played by the Slovakian Barbora Bobulova. Keira Knightley – the face of Coco Mademoiselle perfume – is rumoured to have been considered for the part, and to have been offered the title role in Coco avant Chanel, which eventually went to the elfin Tautou.
"Audrey Tautou is amazing in that part, she is so Chanel," says Leterrier. "Our director thinks that she is driving a Rolls-Royce!"
'Coco avant Chanel' and 'Chanel et Stravinsky' will be released next year
From Audrey Tautou as the young Coco in a film, to Shirley MacLaine as the older Chanel on television, and with a third biopic en route, the legendary couturier is still making her stylish presence felt. By Rachel Shields
The Independent - Friday, 7 November 2008
When Coco Chanel uttered the now-famous phrase, "Fashion fades, only style remains the same", the French designer could not possibly have guessed how indelible her own mark on the world would be. As the woman who popularised the little black dress, the trouser suit and bobbed haircuts, Chanel's style legacy is unrivalled, and now, her personal narrative is up for grabs, with three biopics of the great designer currently either completed or in the pipeline.
While the name Coco Chanel is synonymous with style, none of these films focuses on her glittering career. Instead, film-makers have chosen to plumb the murkier depths of Chanel's private life, recreating her impoverished childhood and failed romances.
"Her story has been so embellished, it has become almost a mythical narrative," says Harold Koda, curator of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and author of Chanel. "It is like a soap opera, you really can't substantiate it."
Filming has just begun on the most prominent of these stories, Coco avant Chanel, to star the Amélie actress Audrey Tautou as Coco. Loosely based on L'Irrégulière, ou Mon itinéraire Chanel, a biography by Edmonde Charles-Roux, the film focuses on Chanel's early years and modest origins, about which she was notoriously reticent. "She was sensitive about her upbringing. It was hard for her to be in the middle of high society – she didn't feel like she belonged," says Carrie Stein, producer of the Living TV biopic Coco Chanel. The mini-series pulled in more than 20 million viewers when recently screened on the US channel Lifetime, and is slated to hit our screens early next year. "She knew her hats and dresses belonged, and that she had style and flair, but she wasn't comfortable, and maybe she always hid behind her clothes," says Stein.
The latest Chanel film to be announced is Chanel et Stravinsky: l'Histoire Secrète, which will explore the designer's relationship with the Russian composer, and is tipped to star Anna Mouglalis, currently the face of the Chanel perfume Allure.
Gabrielle Chanel, who would later count Picasso, Jean Renoir and Jean Cocteau among her friends, grew up in the Loire Valley, and gained the nickname "Coco" when performing for soldiers at a cabaret show. She set up her first shop on Paris's rue Cambon in 1910, with the help of a wealthy lover. "The period we are recreating is that of Coco before she was 'Chanel'," says Catherine Leterrier, costume director on Coco avant Chanel. "She was poor, but she had her own style. I wanted to show how she was different from the ladies of her time," says Leterrier. While the director Anne Fontaine will explore the woman behind the brand for much of the film, it will culminate in a runway show of classic Chanel designs. The film is set to be released in France in May 2009, with international screenings to follow later in the year.
The US series Coco Chanel, starring Shirley MacLaine as an older Coco, revolves around the designer's love affair with politician Arthur "Boy" Capel. "I didn't come at it from a fashion point of view," says Stein. "It's a Cinderella story of rags to riches, all based on fact." While the show was a hit with viewers, it doesn't appear to have gone down well with the fashion house. The label's chief designer Karl Lagerfeld is said to have collaborated on the costumes, but withdrew his support at the last minute and wouldn't endorse the film. A spokesperson denied the label had collaborated, but confirmed Lagerfeld would be supporting the feature films: "Karl Lagerfeld is not at all involved in the costume creations. However, Chanel and Mr Lagerfeld will be involved in making, for both movies, tweed suits for Coco Chanel at the end of her life."
Lagerfeld has been credited with reviving the house of Chanel, which had developed a stuffy image, during his 25 years at the helm. "It is Chanel today that makes us interested in Coco. Since the 1980s, the brand has come back – before that it had calcified," says Koda.
While clothes are central to the story of Chanel, the actresses tasked with bringing the legend to life have a difficult job. The designer was rumoured to have complained when Katharine rather than Audrey Hepburn played her in a Broadway musical of her life first performed in 1969. "Chanel would probably be horrified at the thought of Shirley MacLaine playing her," says Stein. "Obviously, Coco was French, but because we were making the series for an international audience, we opened it up. The minute MacLaine was suggested to me, it was done. Emotionally and psychologically, there are parallels between her and Coco."
While the story is framed around an older Coco, most of the film consists of flashbacks to Coco's twenties, when she is played by the Slovakian Barbora Bobulova. Keira Knightley – the face of Coco Mademoiselle perfume – is rumoured to have been considered for the part, and to have been offered the title role in Coco avant Chanel, which eventually went to the elfin Tautou.
"Audrey Tautou is amazing in that part, she is so Chanel," says Leterrier. "Our director thinks that she is driving a Rolls-Royce!"
'Coco avant Chanel' and 'Chanel et Stravinsky' will be released next year
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I can't wait until she has a new film to promote. It seems like forever since I've seen her on the red carpet and I almost always love what she's wearing.
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Thank you so very much for the scans!! Nice to see that her name is still out there and that she'll be getting more recognition for this role.
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Thanks for posting the Elle scans! I'm loving the blazer she's wearing on the cover.
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I love the Elle scans! She is the cutest thing and I cannot wait to see the new Chanel film
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Oh wow, thanks for the scans!
I CAN'T WAIT for this movie!!!
I CAN'T WAIT for this movie!!!
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So much personality!
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