Fresh from premiering her first documentary Marc by Sofia at the Venice Film Festival, Sofia Coppola has shifted her gaze back to another long-time collaborator. This week sees the release of Chanel Haute Couture, a 450-page book that traces the house’s couture history from Gabrielle Chanel through Karl Lagerfeld and on to Virginie Viard, Chanel’s current artistic director.
The book is a collage in Coppola’s familiar style filled with archival sketches, behind-the-scenes material and fashion photography that sits alongside runway images and portraits of Chanel’s muses through the decades.
Rather than unfolding as a straight chronology, the book romantically drifts like a visual diary that’s stitched together in a way that seems more like memory than textbook, evoking the same sense of atmosphere and consideration that defines Coppola’s films.
Coppola’s connection to the Maison began at 15, when she interned at the creation studio in Paris, and she’s returned many times since, making this project feels like a continuation of that long creative conversation they’ve enjoyed with one another.
Designed by Anamaria Morris at Joseph Logan Design, the book is co-published by Éditions 7L and Coppola’s imprint Important Flowers, under MACK, the London-based publisher known for its carefully produced art and photography books.
Chanel Haute Couture is now available worldwide.
For further information mackbooks.co.uk.
