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VENICE<\/strong> \u2013 Neither Sofia Coppola<\/a> nor Marc Jacobs<\/a> were convinced a documentary was a good idea. Jacobs wasn\u2019t sure he wanted to be the subject of one and Coppola wasn\u2019t sure she wanted the pressure of being the person behind the camera. This was her friend of over 30 years, after all. What if the film wasn\u2019t good?<\/p>\n Yet the idea, which they credit to producers R.J. and Jane Cha Cutler, started to take hold. Coppola has always been interested in fashion and the creative process. Jacobs knew that if anyone could make him feel less self-conscious, it would be her. And they decided to jump into the unknown. At least it would be together.<\/p>\n \u201cThere was no off limits,\u201d Jacobs said in an interview, alongside Coppola, with The Associated Press before the Venice Film Festival<\/a> in September. \u201cIt was just like come as you are and you get what you get and that\u2019s the way it\u2019s going to be.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMarc, by Sofia,\u201d which opens in theaters Friday, is an evocative, and very Coppola, collage of Jacobs\u2019 influences, his biography and his team at work putting together a ready-to-wear collection.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve never done anything like this where there isn\u2019t a plan or a script,\u201d Coppola said. \u201cWhat I was trying to do is show his creative process around this one collection and then interweave inspiration and references and artists who collaborated with him to have this full portrait.\u201d<\/p>\n Creating \u2018Marc, by Sofia\u2019<\/p>\n It was a very lo-fi production, they said. Sometimes it would just be Coppola coming into the office with her own handheld camera. Sometimes her brother Roman Coppola would come to help. Coppola had never done a feature length documentary before and found the process exciting, though she said it\u2019s not signaling a new phase or director for her as a filmmaker.<\/p>\n She also got to see some of the behind the scenes things she\u2019s rarely privy to, including being backstage at a runway show.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI had total freedom, which was great. I was just filming what interested me,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was really the same as like taking snapshots, which wasn\u2019t unfamiliar to me.\u201d<\/p>\n The two met in the early 1990s in New York, when Coppola asked her mother if she could go see the Perry Ellis show that Jacobs was working on. They quickly hit it off, bonding over shared loves of art, music, fashion and movies, and have collaborated many times, on handbags, dresses, commercials and more. Jacobs has visited her film sets and even provided clothes for some of her characters, including some of the coats Scarlett Johansson<\/a> wore in \u201cLost in Translation.\u201d<\/p>\n While Coppola wanted to acknowledge their friendship, even making a little cameo in her film, she also didn\u2019t want it to be about her or even them, necessarily. The focus would remain on Jacobs.<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t want it to be too much about me,\u201d Coppola said. \u201cBut I wanted it to feel that it\u2019s personal and made by me and that I\u2019m part of it and in that way it\u2019s not just a generic interview or portrait.\u201d<\/p>\n Showing Marc Jacobs’ influences<\/p>\n In addition to the behind the scenes of designing the Spring 2024 ready-to-wear collection, \u201cMarc by Sofia\u201d is full of film and art references, with clips from \u201cHello, Dolly!\u201d \u201cAll that Jazz,\u201d \u201cSweet Charity\u201d and many more of Jacobs\u2019 most beloved films. He was particularly blown away that she was able to get the rights to use the clips.<\/p>\n \u201cIt made me feel very special. And I couldn\u2019t imagine all those things coming through for just anyone,\u201d Jacobs said. \u201cI felt like it was OK because it was for Sofia. That may not be the truth, but that\u2019s the way I like to think of it.\u201d<\/p>\n It also includes some biography, big career moments, and some rare glimpses of Jacobs\u2019 grandmother, an influential figure in his life who he lived with as a teen in New York and who instilled in him the importance of caring for beautiful clothes. After the runway show, Coppola and her brother visit Jacobs at his home where, in his silk pajamas, he discusses his comedown. He likes to borrow a phrase coined by his friend, filmmaker Lana Wachowski,<\/a> to describe the feeling: Post-art-um.<\/p>\n \u201cI just sort of just felt like it could have been any conversation,\u201d Jacobs said. \u201cNothing felt like director and subject. It just felt completely easy.\u201d<\/p>\n Still, Jacobs was nervous the first time she screened it for him. He worried about what he was going to look like, and sound like, and what it was going to be.<\/p>\n \u201cIn very typical me fashion, when it was over I said I don\u2019t hate myself after seeing it,\u201d Jacobs laughed. \u201cI just thought it all felt natural. I wasn\u2019t pretending. There was just nothing synthetic or false or anything. So whether people like it or not, I know that I just felt good about me being me and Sofia, you know, sort of seeing that her way.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2014-<\/p>\n This story was originally published on Sep 2, 2025 during the Venice Film Festival. It has been updated to reflect its theatrical release.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.click2houston.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" VENICE \u2013 Neither Sofia Coppola nor Marc Jacobs were convinced a documentary was a good idea. Jacobs wasn\u2019t sure he wanted to be the subject of one and Coppola wasn\u2019t sure she wanted the pressure of being the person behind the camera. This was her friend of over 30 years, after all. 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