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Yahoo
12 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Sofia Coppola Will Direct a Documentary About Marc Jacobs
"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." It was announced this morning that Sofia Coppola will debut a documentary about longtime friend and collaborator Marc Jacobs at next month's Venice Film Festival in an out-of-competition slot. The film will be titled Marc by Sofia, a play on Jacobs's now defunct Marc by Marc Jacobs line. This will be the first documentary for Coppola, who has directed industry favorite films like Priscilla, Marie Antoinette, and The Virgin Suicides. It's also Jacobs' first dedicated feature in a documentary since 2007's Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton. The two creatives have worked together for decades. Coppola starred in a Marc Jacobs fragrance campaign shot by Juergen Teller in 2002, collaborated with Jacobs on a bag collection while he worked at Louis Vuitton, appeared in his Fall 2015 ads, and worked with him on his in-house Heaven by Marc Jacobs line launched in 2020. Both have become emblematic of New York's downtown fashion scene in the '80s and '90s. There is no information yet surrounding which aspects of the life and career of Jacobs, who is fresh off the heels of his Fall 2025 show at the New York Public Library, the film will center. The infamous grunge collection for Perry Ellis, his stint as creative director of Louis Vuitton from 1997 to 2013, his work on his namesake line with its larger-than-life runway collections and youth-forward sister line Heaven—there's so much to encapsulate. Regardless, that premiere's red carpet—hopefully filled with fashion and film industry friends like Anna Sui and Kirsten Dunst and Coppola's new-to-the-spotlight daughters Romy and Cosima—will be one to watch. You Might Also Like 4 Investment-Worthy Skincare Finds From Sephora The 17 Best Retinol Creams Worth Adding to Your Skin Care Routine Solve the daily Crossword
New York Times
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Why Did the Indie Film Studio A24 Buy an Off Broadway Theater?
In the two years since A24, the artistically ambitious film and television studio, purchased Manhattan's Cherry Lane Theater, the historic West Village building has been dark, at least from the outside. But inside, the company behind 'Moonlight,' 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' and 'Euphoria' has been quietly overhauling the facility, and in September Cherry Lane will reopen as the first live performance venue run by the indie powerhouse. The company says it plans a wide-ranging slate of programming, prioritizing theater — Cherry Lane describes itself as the birthplace of the Off Broadway movement — but also featuring comedy, music and film. Another attraction: food. A24 has enlisted the Frenchette Group, which runs several lauded eateries in Manhattan (including Frenchette, Le Rock and Le Veau d'Or), to open a small restaurant and bar at Cherry Lane. The restaurant, called Wild Cherry in a nod to the theater's name, will be Frenchette's second collaboration with a downtown cultural institution — it also operates a bakery cafe inside the Whitney Museum. Among the initial programming highlights will be a Sunday film series curated by Sofia Coppola (first film: Adrian Lyne's 'Foxes' from 1980) and a five-week run of 'Weer,' a one-woman show from the clowning comedian Natalie Palamides (each half of her body plays a different partner in a romantic couple). There will also be a week of opening events, starting Sept. 8, that includes comedy, music, a play reading and a block party. The venue does not plan to announce a season, or to have subscribers — it wants the nimbleness to extend or add events as it goes. 'First and foremost, we really want this to be a place where people can be sure they'll see a great, good quality piece of live performance,' said Dani Rait, who spent a decade at 'Saturday Night Live,' helping to book hosts and musical guests, before A24 hired her to head programming at Cherry Lane. 'And it's an opportunity for discovery — for artists to have a stage and connect with audiences in a really intimate way.' A24 has built a staff of 30 to run the Cherry Lane — some of the employees retained from the theater's previous incarnation. This summer, A24 has been holding a series of private events at the theater to see how it works with audiences in the seats and artists on the stage. There has been comedy by Ramy Youssef, a staged reading of a new play called 'Fabulous Pasta Salad,' and film screenings. Last month, I attended a Cherry Lane album listening event featuring the band Haim. Over the course of an evening the three Haim sisters showed music videos, played audio tracks from their new album, talked about how some of the songs came about and performed one song live. They also made several jokes about hoping A24 would hire them for movie projects (all of them were featured in the film 'Licorice Pizza'). A24's takeover of the 167-seat theater comes at a time of significant commercial investment in an Off Broadway scene long dominated by nonprofits. Audible, a subsidiary of Amazon, now operates the Minetta Lane Theater in Greenwich Village; Seaview Productions, a company half-owned by Sony Music Masterworks, is leasing the former Tony Kiser Theater in Midtown, and No Guarantees Productions, backed by Christine Schwarzman, is taking over Astor Place Theater in NoHo, where the Blue Man Group splattered paint and devoured Twinkies for 34 years. A24 is preserving some of the nonprofit programs known as Cherry Lane Alternative, including a playwright mentoring program. And Rait said ticket prices will vary by show, but that 'we're really cognizant of having accessible, not-too-expensive tickets.' Cherry Lane, at 38 Commerce Street, has a long history — it was built in 1836 as a brewery, and in the years since has been a box factory and a gay bar. It has been used for theater since 1924; an adolescent Barbra Streisand had a backstage job there in the 1950s, and she has recorded an audio message welcoming patrons to the reopened theater. Among the theater's other past highlights: Alex Edelman's 'Just For Us' and Nick Kroll and John Mulaney's 'Oh, Hello!', both of which later transferred to Broadway. A24 purchased Cherry Lane in 2023 for $10 million in a partnership with Taurus Investment Holdings. According to a March filing with the New York City Department of Buildings, the company expected to spend $2.3 million renovating the building. The theater is part of the Greenwich Village Historic District, and its exterior has been preserved, along with the signature red doors. Inside, a space previously used as a black box theater and rehearsal area has been converted into the restaurant, with a titanium bar top and green-upholstered booths; there are also a new concession area for food and merchandise in the lobby and additional bathroom facilities. But otherwise, the changes are mostly aesthetic and technological — new lighting and sound systems; new seats and spiffy new carpeting; projection equipment and a retractable movie screen; upgraded dressing rooms; wall curtains for when the auditorium is used in 'cinema mode.' (Rait said she expected occasionally, but not exclusively, to screen A24 films.) The company is not requiring the theater to program work by artists who make films or television programs with A24, and is not looking to the theater to develop stories for film or television adaptation, although both of those things are likely to happen from time to time. And the company is not planning to use the theater for film premieres — it's too small — although there could be special events with film tie-ins. A24 executives have made a practice of not talking to reporters on the record, but a company official, speaking on background, said that the studio had been considering the possibility of a live performance venture for about a year before Cherry Lane came on the market. The company, which is headquartered in New York and has distributed or produced more than 200 films and television shows in the 13 years since its founding, had already expanded from film into television, following the interests of its artists, and thought a physical space might have similar appeal, both for film and television artists interested in live storytelling, and for A24 fans looking for new ways to connect to the brand. (The company already has a membership program, backs a beauty brand and has partnered with a talent management company.) The official said the company is not expecting to make significant money at Cherry Lane, given the small seating capacity, but that it would like the venture to become self-supporting over time. 'We're first and foremost trying to make this a live destination in New York, and have the space be where people come to enjoy great live performance,' Rait said. 'There's an opportunity for this to be a discovery hub for A24, and our ecosystem of artists that have worked with A24 is really excited about this endeavor, but it really stands on its own and is its own thing.'
Vogue
14-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue
The Couture Challenge—It Was a Face-Off of Extremes on the Streets at the Fall 2025 Shows
Do opposites attract? Couture might be all about glamour and glitz on the runway, but that's not the whole story. Take Pierpaolo Piccioli, who showed up at Demna's final Balenciaga show on the back of a motorcycle in dad sneakers. Or consider Sofia Coppola, who proves that you can in fact wear a pair of simple white jeans to sit front-row at Chanel. But of course couture isn't couture without some opulence, of the kind that Cardi B. delivered at Schiaparelli and Lisa Rinna gave at Balenciaga. Below we've rounded up the extremes of street style at the fall 2025 couture shows in Paris. Round 1: Jeans or Couture? Are you more Sofia C or Cardi B?
Daily Mail
13-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Reclusive Athina Onassis, heiress to $2.7 billion fortune, steps out of the shadows at exclusive Parisian ball in second public appearance in 3 years
She's known for her reclusive tendencies, but Athina Onassis last week made her second public appearance in recent times, suggesting she might be turning over a new leaf. The French-Greek socialite, 40, who reportedly splits her time between a small town in the Netherlands and Belgium, attended the exclusive Bal d'Été, directed by Sofia Coppola, in Paris on the first Sunday in July. Her attendance at the exclusive ball comes just four months after Athina stepped into the limelight for the first time in three years at a charity art event hosted by the Amis du Centre Pompidou in France. The 40-year-old equestrian is the daughter of French businessman Thierry Roussel and socialite Christina Onassis, whose father was Aristotle Onassis, owner of one of the largest shipping fleets in the world. Despite inheriting a billion-dollar fortune as a member of the dynasty, tragedies in Athina's life have led to suggestions she's a victim of the 'Onassis curse', which has befallen several members of her extremely wealthy family. Nonetheless, for the inaugural Bal d'Étém, which welcomes 300 A-Listers, at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Athina put on a stunning display in a flowing red dress with a plunging neckline. Before entering the black-tie event, Athina posed for photographs with her guest, who put on an equally glamorous display. The equestrian joined celebrities including Kiera Knightley, Kirsten Dunst, and Anna Wintour at the gala, which strives to lean on its rich and famous guests to raise money for the hosting museum. When Athina was just three years old, her mother, Christina, 37, was found dead in the bathtub. On her 18th birthday, Athina was given access to her late mother's $2.7billion fortune. Athina has stayed firmly out of the spotlight throughout her adult years, choosing to keep her personal life under wraps. After the breakdown of her ten-year marriage to 'Doda' Álvaro de Miranda Neto in 2016, she almost completely withdrew from public life altogether. Before her appearance this year, Athina, a keen showjumper, was seen in June 2022, when she competed at the Longines Paris Eiffel Jumping show at Champ de Mars. At the event, Athina looked almost unrecognisable, having traded her signature bleached hair for her natural colour. The secretive socialite ditched her typically no-makeup look and wore a glamorous full face of cosmetics, including blush, contour, mascara, and eyeshadow, with her lips looking fuller than in previous years. Athina donned a sheer black lace dress, along with a glitzy sequin blazer and wore a silver jewelled crucifix around her neck. She posed for a picture with Ines de Cominges, the only daughter of Count and Countess Rafael de Cominges of Madrid, and artist Arnaud Cabri-Wiltzer. Pictured: Athina competing during the Longines Paris Eiffel Jumping show at Champ de Mars in Paris in 2022 She has only been seen a handful of times at public events since her ex-husband was reportedly found in bed with a one-night stand in the $2million home that Athina bought in Wellington, Florida, in 2016. learned that 'Doda' Miranda, who was formerly part of Brazil's Olympic showjumping team, was discovered in bed with the woman by his wife's security team. A well-connected member of the international show jumping circuit told the Mail that Athina's security team busted him 'having sex with another woman'. 'He begged them not to say anything, but one of them went straight to Athina. She immediately packed her bags and went off to Europe,' the source said. 'It was apparently a one-night stand, there was nothing serious going on between them.' Miranda spoke to Brazilian magazine Epoca at the time and said: 'I am really in the midst of a storm. But I will not give up on my love. It won't be easy but I will fight until the end.' Miranda has since gone on to marry another woman, journalist Denize Severo, and has welcomed two children. Athina's marriage breakdown is not the first heartbreak she has endured - after tragically losing her mother at the age of three. In her early childhood, Christina bonded with her daughter and gave Athina her own flock of sheep, complete with a shepherd, when she learned the nursery rhyme Baa Baa Black Sheep. She also gave her a private zoo. It was previously reported that Christina had died of a heart attack brought on by years of eating disorders. Athina was reportedly the richest teenage girl in the world when she inherited her mother's $2.7billion fortune when she turned 18. However, her fortune has been badly managed over the years, experts say, and she sold Aristotle's private Greek island, Skorpios, to Russian billionaire Ekaterina Rybolovleva in 2013 for an estimated $100million. Despite being one of the wealthiest families in the world, the Onassis dynasty has famously been plagued by tragedy. A decade and a half earlier, Christina had lost her entire family in little more than two years. Her 24-year-old brother Alexander was killed in a plane crash in January, 1973, and their mother, also called Athina, died of a drug overdose the following year. Aristotle, who never recovered from his son and heir's death, then passed away from bronchial pneumonia in March 1975. Christina had four marriages, none of them lasting over three years. Athina (whose father was Christina's final husband, French pharmaceutical heir Thierry Roussel) was her only child. Athina is now the only living Onassis grandchild of Aristotle. Thierry Roussel fathered a son with Swedish model Gaby Landhage while Christina was pregnant, and the couple split shortly after Athina was born. After Christina's death, Athina went to live with Roussel and Gaby. Athina is believed to have no contact with her father and has even dropped his last name. Thierry was also not among the 1,300 guests invited to her December 2005 marriage to Miranda in a specially constructed Roman Catholic church at a resort in Sao Paulo. Instead, Miranda's father Ricardo led her down the aisle. Miranda told a Brazilian magazine in 2011 that they intended to start a family within a few years. 'Athina is still very young,' he said, adding that having a baby would interrupt her budding showjumping career. 'I also have a very busy life,' he said. 'When a baby comes I want to reduce the number of competitions to be more present.' Athina reportedly became pregnant in 2013 but suffered a miscarriage. Miranda said that Athina spent much of her time looking after Vivienne, his daughter with model Cibele Dorsa, who killed herself in 2011.
Daily Mail
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Hollywood royalty nepo baby goes viral by flaunting glamorous lifestyle and A-list company
A daughter of two A-list stars, who was once dubbed the 'ultimate nepo baby ', is forging her own path as a social media sensation. Romy Mars, the 18-year-old daughter of director Sofia Coppola and musician Thomas Mars, has been sharing her lavish lifestyle on TikTok and Instagram, with her posts garnering millions of views. Her famous parents met in the late 1990s while working on the set of Coppola's The Virgin Suicides. Her mom, 54 — who is the daughter Godfather filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola — is known for directing acclaimed movies like Lost in Translation and Marie Antoinette, while her dad, 48, is the lead singer of the indie band Phoenix. Romy, who also has a younger sister named Cosima, 15, is quickly making a name for herself, with her fans even hailing her as 'a star.' Given her parents' prominence, Romy often finds herself among A-listers, as seen in one of her viral clips from a private jet featuring Adam Driver, 41. The Oscar-nominated actor was promoting her grandfather's film Megalopolis in 2024, and Romy joined them at the premiere in Cannes. 'She stays flexing and I can't even blame her,' one fan commented on the clip, which saw Adam passing a bottle of what looked to be wine to another passenger. Romy also recently shared a post from a Chanel event which she attended with her famous mom, including a snap of countless bags from the designer. Just earlier this week, Romy shared a video of herself watching her dad performing on stage, with fans calling it 'iconic'. 'Having thomas mars as your dad, ICONIC,' one fan wrote. 'Having him and Sofia Coppola as parents it's unreal,' another added. In May, Romy shared a snap with singer Lana Del Rey, which has garnered nearly 50,000 likes. For her 16th birthday, none other than Jacob Elordi presented her with her cake. The Australian actor was the star of her mother's film 'Priscilla.' A picture of the pair also surfaced on socials, with Jacob slinging his arm around his boss's daughter. Romy first gained prominence in 2023 after sharing a now-deleted video, in which she claimed she was grounded for attempting to charter a helicopter to visit a friend using her father's credit card. In the clip she also admitted that her parents' 'biggest rule' was that she was not allowed to have public social media. 'But TikTok's not going to make me famous, so it doesn't really matter,' she rationalized. Her mother Sofia, who is known for fiercely protecting her family's privacy, later told The Hollywood Reporter she was 'not thrilled' about the viral moment. 'She's funny,' she said. 'But people discussing my parenting publicly is not what I would've hoped for.' Despite her previous claim that she was not permitted to have public social media accounts, she now has a public TikTok page with 395.5K followers, and an Instagram page with over 160K followers. She's also establishing herself through her music career, having recently released a song titled 'A-listers.' Romy also shows off her outfits, shares room tours, her hangouts with friends, and promotes her music. Though much of her content is surprisingly relatable to that of her peers, there are glimpses of affluence — including a recent video of her attending a Chanel ball. On Tuesday, Sofia also brought along her two teenage daughters to Chanel Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2025-2026 fashion show. Romy towered over the Priscilla director while Cosima also stood slightly taller than their 54-year-old mother. Speaking to Vogue after the Chanel presentation, Romy called it 'the most beautiful show.' Last month, Romy released a new song in which she laments the emotional emptiness of wealth, fame and red-carpet glamour. Titled A-Listers, it details the hollowness of growing up in unimaginable privilege - complete with references to private yachts, LA mansions, and fake romances with other rich kids. And in a truly on-brand move, the music video was directed by none other than her Oscar-winning mother Sofia. In the new music video, Romy sings: 'Grant all of my wishes, riches to riches / And one day I'll be bored with everything that I've got / Get out of fancy clothes right after they get the shot.' And while some have praised her for being 'self-aware' or 'meta,' others see it as a tone-deaf example of a celebrity offspring using their connections to produce content that ultimately flaunts the very privilege it claims to critique. One viewer commented on the video: 'It's tasteless to call your multitudes of wealth that you didn't earn "a bore."' While another fumed: 'This is talentless, insufferable, overproduced, nepo-baby garbage, and no amount of astroturfing will change that.' Romy sings about her luxurious life that she also feels detached from: 'Recreate scenes from Titanic on a flying bridge yacht / Just to feel something real,' And the chorus bluntly spells out the mood: 'Heartless, tasteless, nameless, famous / Never, ever on my waitlist.' Born in 2006, Romy grew up in New York's trendy West Village and spent summers in France, where her father was practising in his band. At the same time, she became well acquainted with the world of film, having accompanied her mother on set, along with her younger sister, Cosima. But when it came to promoting those same films on the red carpet, it was a strict no-go zone for the sisters. In 2017, during an interview with The Guardian, Sofia revealed why, saying: 'I never saw the point of taking little kids to movie premieres and stuff. I just want them to have a childhood.' Romy is part of the sprawling Coppola dynasty, which includes director Gia Coppola and Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage - Sofia's cousin. She was scouted for Marc Jacobs Beauty at just 13-years-old, and regularly appears at fashion weeks, film festivals and museum galas where her surname guarantees a front-row seat.
