Coco revisited
There has been an embarrassment of riches for fashion and film fans of late – especially when it comes to the house of Chanel. Last year saw Audrey Tatou portray the designer’s rags to chic riches tale in Anne Fontaine’s biopic, ‘Coco Avant Chanel’, and now, it’s the turn of director Jan Kounen’s in ‘Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky’.
Made around the same time as ‘Coco Avant Chanel’, the film focuses on the rumoured love affair between between two of the great cultural firebrands of the Twentieth Century. Set in the Twenties, the film captures the full force of Chanel’s famed glacial hauteur. Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen plays the penniless Russian composer, Stravinsky, while French actress Anna Mouglalis, already a muse of Karl Lagerfeld’s and the face of Allure Sensuelle, is the enigmatic Chanel.
Fiction and conjecture are central to the this story of egomania and desire. But the truth is, when it comes to the house of Chanel, there was no better storyteller than the designer herself. This is just another thread woven into her beautiful, enigmatic myth and legend.
Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky is in UK cinemas from August 6th.
