I’ve just landed in Paris, and I feel that rush of excitement I get when I’m here. This city is divine…
Just as I was leaving New York, Nora Baldenweg, a journalist here in Paris, sent me a note about the opening night of the Nouvelle Vague film retrospective earlier in the week. I bump into Nora time-to-time when I’m here. I loved reading her account of the evening and wanted to share it with you.
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Chanel and Dior have been generating a lot attention for their recent film campaigns, and understandably so. Both fashion houses have hired chic French beauties to star in their online videos.
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I mentioned the film back in May when Anna Wintour was on 60 Minutes, and now the trailer for Vogue’s documentary The September Issue has hit the web.
The movie appears to offer more than just a behind-the-scenes look at how the magazine’s vital fall fashion issue is put together. It shows the influence and power that Anna Wintour wields in the industry at large.
From the Chanel and Dior film campaigns to the Valentino documentary, there has been a lot of cinematic fashion of late! I am excited to see this one come fall.
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Films about high fashion just keep coming!
After seeing the splendid Valentino: The Last Emperor, I am looking forward to Anne Fontaine’s Coco Avant Chanel. The gorgeous French actress Audrey Tautou plays the famous designer in a film loosely adapted from a biography by Edmonde Charles-Roux. The film follows Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel’s story of obscure and poor beginnings to her rise as a forward-thinking designer and French fashion icon. Karl Lagerfeld supervised the re-creation of costumes and accessories for the movie. (Does this man ever sleep? He is unstoppable).
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On Monday night, I went to see Valentino: The Last Emperor—for the third time! But this screening was very special. Director Matt Tyrnauer introduced the film and afterward he held a Q&A alongside Vogue editor-at-large André Leon Talley.
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Before departing for Europe on Sunday, I went to see the new movie Valentino: The Last Emperor at New York’s Film Forum downtown. And I absolutely loved it. So much, in fact, I just might see it again when I return from my travels! It is a touching tribute to the legendary designer’s work and the final stages of his prolific career. More than that, though, the movie reveals the extraordinary relationship between Valentino and Giancarlo Giammetti, his business partner and companion of 50 years.
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