Topic: Anne Fontaine

Working Through the Funk

I don't know about you, but there are some clear signs when I am in an emotional funk. Typically a positive person who welcomes an illuminating ...

Jezebel plays librarian

Back from skiing and renewed appreciation for own thigh muscle: White Anne Fontaine shirt, thick-rimmed frames perching on nose and hair swept up with a clip, ready to shake down at first opportunity. Search the catalogue for you? " He plays along. " He ...

Coco Before Chanel at The Belcourt

" Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, a dance-hall singer turned playboy's mistress, raids menswear to find simple, elegant and practical clothes for herself, and in the process finds her calling. Anne Fontaine's film focuses on the couturier's early years, as the strong-willed ...

Coco Before Chanel

The first of two French films about Coco Chanel to hit the States between now and January (look for Jan Kounen's Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky later this year), Anne Fontaine's biopic transforms the designer's early life into highbrow guilty-pleasure ...

#NYFW Coco Before Chanel Screening

Director Anne Fontaine, Alessandro Nivola, Audrey Tautou. The Paris Theater in New York City was the place to be last night. Because the delightful little spot held the Coco Before Chanel NY premiere hosted by Chanel. We were so into the epic ...

Coco Before Chanel is pretty as a picture

The fashion world, broadly speaking, depends on a series of absurdities that make it quite difficult to film. She found the story of Coco Chanel (the version that interests her anyhow) not amid the hissy-fits and back-stabbing of the international catwalk scene ...
These days, the economy is forcing even the biggest shopaholics to put the breaks on spending. Designer Catherine Malandrino advises women to think carefully about their buys. "French women are not just picking something because it is in fashion," Malandrino explains. Born ...

Wednesday, September 10

Its not even Thanksgiving and next springs fashion has us beggin for mercyand a burrito! Domino, meanwhile, fetes the imminent end of all this misplaced sartorialism with a Fashion Week cocktail party at contributing editor Alison Sarofims lust-inducing West Village digs, attracting ...
'Da Vinci' Star Audrey Tautou to Play Fashion Visionary Coco Chanel in French FilmFrench actress Audrey Tautou, the slight, dark-haired star of "The Da Vinci Code," will play fashion visionary Coco Chanel in a new French movie.French director Anne Fontaine told ...