The longtime collaborators turn their creative friendship into a feature set for its first screening at the Venice Film Festival next month.
Director Sofia Coppola has been quietly filming Marc by Sofia, a new documentary on longtime friend Marc Jacobs, set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival next month. The project slipped under the radar until today’s announcement, but its creative pairing hardly comes as a surprise.
Coppola and Jacobs share a history that spans two decades. In 2002 she appeared in Juergen Teller’s campaign for the designer’s signature fragrance. She later helped shape a line of bags during Jacobs’s tenure at Louis Vuitton, stepped in front of Teller’s lens again for the Fall 2015 collection, joined forces with the label’s youth‑minded Heaven offshoot, and directed the Daisy perfume film. Each collaboration mixed Coppola’s understated visual language with Jacobs’s flair for pop‑inflected glamour.
With Marc by Sofia, the director turns that shared archive toward the screen. Details on the storyline remain under wraps, yet the announcement alone hints at a portrait drawn from firsthand experience rather than arm’s‑length observation.
For Jacobs, who has long folded friends and muses into his brand narrative, the documentary marks another chapter in an ongoing dialogue with culture outside fashion’s runway schedule. For Coppola, it is a return to a subject she knows as well off camera as on. The Venice bow next month will reveal how their latest conversation lands when shaped into feature length.
