“I’ve seen museum reveals and catalogs, however I assumed it could be enjoyable to have a look at how couture is made and never be educational about it,” she says.
In a toast, Coppola recounted being an ungainly 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 a youngster by Lagerfeld—a putting portrait of the younger artist featured within the guide—to working with Chanel to design Priscilla Presley’s iconic marriage ceremony gown in her most up-to-date movie, Priscilla, the model has performed an instrumental position in her profession.
“My mother’s buddy Jeanette in San Francisco used to let me come into her closet, and she or he would give me her Chanel ballet flats once they had been worn out,” Coppola says. “I’d get hand-me-downs and I used to be 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 Mars{Photograph} 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 (“Hello, Dad! Miss you!”), making the star-studded affair really feel extra like a quaint household dinner. Each daughters, Coppola says, typically borrow her assortment of Chanel footwear and luggage, which she subsequently has to trace down. “Typically [my Chanel] migrates into my daughter’s room,” Coppola says with fun.
Fellow mother-daughter duo, Karen Elson and Scarlett White, had 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. Ultimately, all the younger It ladies, like Gracie Abrams, Sunday Rose City, Chase Sui Wonders, and Havana Rose Liu had been joined by Coppola’s daughters, holding fingers and catching up, in a scene that might have been an outtake from considered one of Coppola’s movies.
