It was announced this morning that Sofia Coppola will debut a documentary about Marc Jacobs, her longtime friend and collaborator, at next month’s Venice Film Festival in an out-of-competition slot. The film will be titled Marc by Sofia, a play on Jacobs’s now defunct Marc by Marc Jacobs line.
This will be the first documentary for Coppola, who has directed films like Priscilla, Marie Antoinette, and The Virgin Suicides. It’s also Jacobs’ first dedicated feature in a documentary since 2007’s Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton.
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The two creatives have worked together for decades. Coppola starred in a Marc Jacobs fragrance campaign shot by Juergen Teller in 2002, collaborated with Jacobs on a bag collection while he worked at Louis Vuitton, appeared in his autumn 2015 campaign, and worked with him on his in-house Heaven by Marc Jacobs line launched in 2020. Both have become emblematic of New York’s downtown fashion scene in the ‘80s and ‘90s.
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There is no information yet on which aspects of the life and career of Jacobs the film will focus. There is, of course, so much material: his infamous grunge collection for Perry Ellis; his stint as creative director of Louis Vuitton from 1997 to 2013; his work on his namesake line with its larger-than-life runway collections and, more recently, his younger sister line, Heaven. Regardless, just think how good the premiere’s red carpet will be.
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