Sofia Coppola tells Marc Jacobs in a new (and already highly anticipated) film in Venice

Today, there is a certain grace in the ties that last over time. If they are, they are partners who unite affection and art, such as that between Sofia Coppola and Marc Jacobsthe result is a subtle but very deep connection that leaves a mark in culture: she, director of intimacy and the unspoken; He, stylist who has dressed generations with nostalgia, irony and lucidity. Together they built a small common universe unknown to most, which for the first time will be told by Sofia Coppola’s perspective in a documentary during the next Venice Film Festival.

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The announcement immediately turned on the curiosity of the public and critics, not only because it brings together two of the most significant names of contemporary visual culture, but because it digs in the folds of a relationship that has lasted for over thirty years. Marc by Sofia It will be presented out of competition at the exhibition and, considering the relationship between the two, will probably not follow the classic format of the celebratory documentary, but rather the personal portrait of a man who is not only an icon of American fashion, but also a friend, a family figure, A companion of visions and references since the early 90s.

In fact, their story begins when she, daughter of art grown between Paris and New York, attends the first fashion shows and falls in love with fashion as a newspaper, while he is already one of the “rebels” of the fashion system thanks to the grunge collection created for Perry Ellis – so iconic that a few years ago there was a revival – that it cost him the place, but consecrated him in the myth. Sofia was a twenty -year -old who tried to trace his own way and who had asked his mother, Eleanor, to be able to attend one of his fashion shows. In the backstage, the two began to chat and quickly discovered that they had similar musical and artistic tastes, accidentally establishing what would become A fundamental designer-museum relationship for both.

Sofia was an ideal inspiration for Jacobs: sophisticated without ostentationmelancholy but never sad, with a style that seems to have come out of a film of the Nouvelle vague But rooted in the present, capable of being fragile and strong together. The stylist dressed her for the red carpet, but also involved her in her visual imagination, choosing it as protagonist of the campaign of his first fragrance Daisy In 2001, taken by Juergen Teller, and then as a video director for Daisy Dream In 2014, set between ethereal hills and young women suspended over time. It is not just esteem: it is a dialogue between two people who share the same sensitivity for details, for atmospheres, for silences.

Both fans of subversive youth and vintage memories that become contemporary aesthetic, have been able to translate their bond into powerful images, without ever forcing it into forced marketing. Even in private life, Sofia has often wore Marc Jacobs clothes on fundamental occasions: from victory to Golden Globe for Lost in Translation At the pre-match party with Thomas Mars, passing through the most sober but always impeccable apparitions to the New York Fashion Week. Now, with this documentary, the director decides to give him back everything he gave her: attention, beauty, trust, time.

Marc by Sofia In all likelihood, a sweet and intimate work will be a journey through the wardrobe but also the soul, made of memories, backstage, laughter and deeper reflections on the passing time, on identity and transformation. The documentary is not only aimed at fashion enthusiasts, but anyone interested in real relationships, to shared creation, to the beauty that was born in the margins. No pose, or empty celebration: only a look that is gently posed on the friend and myth, revealing its complexity and tenderness.