Audrey Tautou stars in the French film “Coco Avant Chanel“. Based on the life of the celebrated Fashion Designer, the movie depicts the earlier years of Gabrielle Chanel.
“Born out of wedlock in a provincial poorhouse, Chanel was deposited at 12 in a Dickensian orphanage. At 20, toiling part-time in a tailor’s shop, she met aristocratic infantryman Étienne Balsan, the fairy-tale hero who helped transform her by turns into a chanteuse, an equestrienne, and his mistress. Her singing skills were negligible, her horsemanship was instinctive (“Ride as if you had a pair of balls,” she advised), and her physical appeal was tantalizingly ambiguous. Small-bosomed and narrow-hipped, Chanel said, “Cut my head off and I look like an adolescent boy.” In fact, this “female Beau Brummell” (Cecil Beaton’s words) modernized women’s clothing in part by ransacking her lovers’ closets. Early on, as a milliner, she replaced heavy, ornate hats with severe straw boaters. As the girlfriend of polo-playing entrepreneur Boy Capel, she pioneered sportswear separates. Paramour Grand Duke Dmitri of Russia (Rasputin’s co-assassin) inspired the iconoclastic couturier to pile on exotic jewels. Instead of marrying the he-man millionaire Duke of Westminster, she appropriated his salmon fisherman’s sweaters and tweeds” (Amy Fines Collins, Vanity Fair).
This is the first trailer to the movie, which will premier in France on April 22nd. From what I’ve read, the movie will debut in the states later with English sub-titles after the premier in France. I knew I should’ve paid more attention to French 1 in eight grade!
Source: Brigitte Lacombe via Vanity Fair
March 10th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
This reminds me to buy Hors de Prix. I <<<<<<<<3 Audrey Tautou
July 3rd, 2009 at 9:26 am
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