Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton : a documentary about the S/S 07 collections

[BerlinRocks]

Sorry for non-french (or non-german) speakers... but on Friday there was a very good documentary about Marc Jacobs on Arte (Fr. Germany)... made by Loïc Prigent (the one who did the Signé Chanel doc. and work-friend of Mlle Agnès)

here is the story (in french... really sorry maybe someone could translate before this thread is gonna be erase because of all the french talking)

Le spectacle de la mode
MARC JACOBS & LOUIS VUITTON Réalisateur : Loïc Prigent
Auteurs : Loïc Prigent , Dominique Miceli
Producteurs : ARTE FRANCE , ANDA MEDIA , EMASON Production


Vuitton, la marque de maroquinerie centenaire, s'est associée à Marc Jacobs, l'inventeur
new-yorkais du grunge glamour. Un mariage réussi et une affaire qui marche, révélés dans un film enlevé et inventif qui nous plonge au coeur du travail d'un créateur de mode.

"Un instant de grâce dont ceux qui aiment la mode ne se lassent pas." Le Figaro
New York, une fête costumée où se pressent d'extravagants invités masqués. Arrive un drôle d'oiseau déguisé en pigeon : c'est Marc Jacobs, styliste le plus influent de sa génération et directeur artistique de Louis Vuitton. Personne ne l'a encore filmé au travail. À force d'acharnement et grâce à l'appui d'une proche du créateur, Loïc Prigent est parvenu à se glisser dans les ateliers, les bureaux et les coulisses des défilés. Son film est à la fois un portrait de Marc Jacobs et un plongeon au coeur du processus de création, saupoudré de quelques chiffres sur l'hallucinante success story de la marque au monogramme.
Comment fonctionne la prodigieuse machine à idées qu'est le cerveau de ce créateur new-yorkais azimuté, inventeur inspiré d'un look grunge classieux ? Sur le mode du copier-coller. Son obsession : abolir les frontières entre le beau et le laid, le riche et le pauvre, le parfait et le tordu. "Est-ce si affreux que ça en devient beau ? Ou bien est-ce si affreux que c'est juste affreux ?", s'interroge-t-il en examinant un échantillon de tissu.
Le styliste travaille sur deux fronts : dans les ateliers de sa propre marque à Soho et chez Louis Vuitton à Paris. Chez Vuitton, tout est possible, même refaire à l'identique, sous une bulle transparente près de Tokyo, un défilé qui a eu lieu à Paris un mois plus tôt. Depuis 1992, la marque connaît une croissance à deux chiffres.
Derniers jours avant un défilé Vuitton au Petit Palais. Les ateliers sont en ébullition, Marc Jacobs proche de la fusion. La dernière veste arrivera-t-elle à temps ? Loïc Prigent a appliqué à son film le rythme d'enfer qui est celui de la préparation d'un défilé. Le montage a la pêche, plein de ruptures, de trouvailles, de clins d'oeil. Le réalisateur a en outre recueilli les témoignages de proches et de gens du métier, parmi lesquels la réalisatrice Sofia Coppola, Anna Wintour, la célèbre rédactrice en chef de Vogue USA, le diamantaire John Reinhold qui a initié Marc Jacobs à l'art moderne (sa deuxième passion), la peintre Elisabeth Peyton qui a fait son portrait... Un film pour pénétrer les arcanes de la création, le portrait d'un styliste génial qui ne se prend pas au sérieux.

here are the links :
VOD (video on demand) : http://www.artevod.com/programDetails.do?emissionId=2171
itw of Loic Prigent (and making of) : http://www.arte.tv/fr/connaissance-decouverte/mode/Making-of/1544046.html
itw of Marc Jacobs (videos in english) :
http://www.arte.tv/fr/connaissance-decouverte/mode/Marc-Jacobs/1544036.html
backstage of the last Vuitton show :
http://www.arte.tv/fr/connaissance-decouverte/mode/1542324,CmC=1544938.html
itw of Yves Carcelle (in french) :
http://www.arte.tv/fr/connaissance-decouverte/mode/1542324,CmC=1544050.html

there'll be a dvd soon available (in sept. 2007)

 

[ilaughead]

Here's Babelfish's version.

The spectacle of the mode MARC JACOBS & LOUIS VUITTON Realizer: Loïc Prigent Authors: Loïc Prigent, Domenica Miceli Producers: ARTE FRANCE, ANDA MEDIA, EMASON Production

Vuitton, the mark of leather working centenary, joined to Marc Jacobs, the new Yorkean inventor of the grunge glamour. A successful marriage and a business which goes, revealed in a removed and inventive film which plunges us in the heart of the work of a fashion designer. "One moment of grace of which those which like the fashion are not wearied." The New York Barber, a dressed up festival where has a presentiment of extravagant masked guests. Arrive funny of bird disguised in pigeon: it is Marc Jacobs, the most influential designer of his generation and artistic director of Louis Vuitton. Nobody still filmed it with work. To force of eagerness and thanks to the support of a close relation of the creator, Loïc Prigent managed to slip into the workshops, the offices and the slides of the processions. Its film is at the same time a portrait of Marc Jacobs and a dive in the heart of the process of creation, powdered with some figures on incredible the success story of the mark to the monogram. How does the extraordinary machine with ideas that is the brain of this azimuté new Yorkean creator, inventive inspired of a look classieux grunge function? On the mode of copy-sticking. Its obsession: to abolish the borders between the beautiful one and the ugly one, the twisted rich person and poor, the perfect one and. "is this so dreadful that that becomes beautiful about it? Or this is so dreadful that they are just dreadful?", question yourself it by examining a fabric sample. The designer works on two faces: in the workshops of its own mark with Soho and at Louis Vuitton in Paris. At Vuitton, all is possible, to even remake with identical, under a transparent bubble close to Tokyo, a procession which took place in Paris one month earlier. Since 1992, the mark knows a growth with two digits. Last days before a Vuitton procession with the Small Palate. The workshops are in boiling, Marc Jacobs close to fusion. The last jacket will it arrive in time? Loïc Prigent applied to its film the rate/rhythm of hell which is that of the preparation of a procession. The assembly has fishing, full with ruptures, lucky finds, winks. The realizer moreover collected testimonys of close relations and people of the trade, among which the director Sofia Coppola, Anna Wintour, celebrates it writer as a chief of Vogue the USA, the diamond cutter John Reinhold who initiated Marc Jacobs with the modern art (its second passion), the painter Elisabeth Peyton who made his portrait... A film to penetrate the mysteries of creation, the portrait of a brilliant designer who is not caught with the serious one.

 

[isupporthil]

The documentary was SO great! It shows Marc preparing the collections for Louis Vuitton S/S07 and MJ S/S07 (or i think...), the shows in Tokyo, Paris, New York, Anna Wintour in the atelier, Sofia Coppola...

 

[ilaughead]

^Any chance it'll show in the US? Maybe on Sundance Channel?

 

[BerlinRocks]

I have no idea... have you ever seen the Signé Chanel doc on this channel?!
or you'll have to wait the dvd... but as Marc is american, maybe a channel will buy this doc.

 

[MUXU]

this sounds interesting. i would like to see it.

 

[StellaMare]

I REALLY want to see the Sofia Coppola interview.

 

[*JJ*]

the documentary was amaziny, i loved it! to see how MJ works, where he gets his inspiration, preparing a fashion show,..
i'm definitely going to order it when it comes out on dvd!

 

[outdoorminer]

I really want to see the Sofia part too! : D

Maybe someone could upload it here after they record it...?

 

[liberty33r1b]

oh i saw it too!!! i loved when he saw that patchwork bag in its full glory for the first time, and went like: "this is sick in the head". hahaha, i had to laugh so much! and it's so true!

 

[Ivy Parker]

I REALLY want to see the Sofia Coppola interview.

She actually didn't appear for very long, maybe 1 minute and a short appearance at one of the shows. But she was lovely, sitting there barefoot with pink toenails.

The documentary was great, Marc seems to be a very sweet person and it was fascinating to see the work process and how he gets inspired.

 

[isupporthil]

oh i saw it too!!! i loved when he saw that patchwork bag in its full glory for the first time, and went like: "this is sick in the head". hahaha, i had to laugh so much! and it's so true!

Haha you're right and "this is so insane" is also one of his favorites expressions

 

[style_expert]

I've seen it..it was very interesting to see but I liked the documentary on Chanel better (perhaps because it was longer and more in depth)

 

[Dkammern]

no you tube yet?? i watched signe chanel and loved it... imo this cant be half as good, but i'm still interested

(i think it wont be as good jsut because it's not HC, it's not my dear karl and because i find LV terribly tacky... no ofense)

 

[BerlinRocks]

^well it's about Marc Jacobs own line, too...
and honestly it's very good but true it was not so long...
and this is 1st time (??) you'll have entrance into Marc Jacobs ateliers and Louis Vuitton offices...

 

[liberty33r1b]

^yes definitely.

 

[outdoorminer]

Here's a picture of Sofia from the documentary in her PAris apartment.


iheartsofia

 

[Street_a_Licious]

Anyone knows if it will be repeated some time soon?

 

[happyguy]

i hopw it comes out in English when it's on dvd. i want to get it!!!!

 

[BerlinRocks]

Anyone knows if it will be repeated some time soon?

it's not gonna be repeated as far as i know...

i hopw it comes out in English when it's on dvd. i want to get it!!!!

the "itw" with Marc, Sofia, Elizabeth Peyton etc. part is mostly in english... but the Loïc Prigent's talks are in french of course... is Signé Chanel was released in english, too? if so, I guess this one will be, too...