Jean Kounen’s Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky arrives at the Toronto International Film Festival next week for the joy of the cinema-fashion connection lovers, and to give a final cinematic overdose to Chanel fans with the story of the friendship (affair?) between the famous designer and the revolutionary composer.
Yet I must admit that, in this cinematic Chanel year that started with the perfume ad directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and continued with Anne Fontaine’s Coco avant Chanel, what gave me a better insight into Chanel's life was actually a recent chat with photographer Douglas Kirkland who recounted me the story behind the Chanel images he shot in the summer of 1962.
The photographs are now available in two volumes, Coco Chanel: Three Weeks/1962 (Glitterati Inc.) and Mademoiselle – Coco Chanel/Summer 1962 (Steidl), the former features a revealing text by Kirkland himself, the latter includes an introduction by Karl Lagerfeld. You can read my interview with Douglas Kirkland here.
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