No One Understands Marc Jacobs Quite Like Sofia Coppola

‘Marc by Sofia’ Review: Sofia Coppola’s Documentary About Her Fashion BFF Marc Jacobs Captures but Never Unzips Its Subject

I love a good fashion documentary, and there’s no mystery as to why the best ones, like “Unzipped” (1995) or “Valentino: The Last Emperor” (2008), tend to be organized around a single fashion season and a fabled designer’s creation of an indelible collection. (Remember how Isaac Mizrahi based his 1994 collection in “Unzipped” on a random TV viewing of the 1922 silent Eskimo documentary “Nanook of the North”? How could one forget?) That countdown…

Sofia Coppola Stays in the Shallow End with the New Marc Jacobs Documentary

Naomi Fry on the documentary “Marc by Sofia,” directed by Sofia Coppola, about the fashion designer Marc Jacobs.

No One Understands Marc Jacobs Quite Like Sofia Coppola

Photo by JB Lacroix/FilmMagicSince they first crossed paths in New York in the early ’90s, Marc Jacobs and Sofia Coppola have been in constant dialogue: his clothes appearing in her films, her style and sensibility inspiring his runways, and their names becoming synonymous with downtown cool. Three decades later, the designer and the filmmaker remain one of fashion's most enduring creative friendships. Here, their best moments together over the …

Sofia’s Design for Living

Identifying with fashion designer Marc Jacobs, Sofia Coppola becomes that boy-girl ally who shares interest in clothes, music, art, and fame.

Marc Jacobs & Sofia Coppola On Björk, Anna Weyant & The ‘90s

John Lamparski/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty ImagesCollaborations are a dime a dozen in the fashion world nowadays, with the hope of raising one another’s profile — or as Gen Z says, “maximizing their joint slay.” Marc Jacobs and Sofia Coppola know a thing or two about joining forces with other artists. During Jacobs’ time at Louis Vuitton, he brought the likes of Stephen Sprouse and Takashi Murakami into the fold when these sorts of meetings…