Consulate’s Chad Sipkin Edits Sofia Coppola’s Documentary "Marc by Sofia"

I’ve long been baffled why fashion documentaries don’t get more respect.

Films like Unzipped, Valentino: The Last Emperor, Dior and I, The September Issue, Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel and McQueen rank among the finest nonfiction films of their time, yet none of them earned an Oscar nomination. Documentaries about visual artists often receive serious attention – the Oscar-nominated Exit Through the Gift Shop being a case in point – but focus on a designer or a fashion magazine editor and good luck to you.

Paying no mind to that, Sofia Coppola makes her documentary directorial debut with Marc by Sofia, a film about her close friend, the American designer Marc Jacobs. It made its world premiere today at the Venice Film Festival (her papa, Francis Ford Coppola, was in Venice just a few days ago presenting the festival’s honorary Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement to Werner Herzog).

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