There’s a brilliant photograph of Sofia Coppola on the set of in which she appears, mid-stride, amid dozens of actors dressed in 18th-century courtly attire: britches and elaborate waistcoats on the men, robes a la françaises on the women, white powdered wigs on all. Coppola, meanwhile, is dressed in a white men’s button-up shirt by Charvet, layered tanks, and a pair of dark slacks. In the swirl of all that pastel-toned period finery, she cuts a rather amusing figure.
“I like to have a bunch when I’m shooting,” she told magazine of her Charvet shirts, “so I don’t have to think about what I’m wearing.” This and other snapshots make up A24’s latest book, out this week. Assembled by Hagop Kourounian (of the Instagram account ), Jon Dieringer (editor in chief of Screen Slate), film critic Caitlin Quinlan, and fashion journalist Charlie Porter, is filled with rare snaps of filmmakers dressed for the job, and sometimes—in the cases of people like Kathryn Bigelow, Chloé Zhao, and Baz Luhrmann—what they wore to accept their Academy Awards.
Though this is not a fashion book, per se, it’s no doubt a book about style (Coppola looks the picture of effortless chic), and so a group of esteemed fashion writers—including Lynn Yaeger, Lauren Sherman, Rachel Tashjian, Sami Reiss, Claire Marie Healy, Adam Wray, Brad Phillips, and Shumon Basar—were called upon to contribute essays musing on the directors’ fashion choices. “This is a book that uses clothing t.
