Penelope Cruz is attending the latest Chanel Show!
14.09.2023 - 14:19 / variety.com
K.J. Yossman Coco Chanel is one of the world’s most famous fashion icons, but her legacy has rarely been tackled on screen. Director Hannah Berryman aims to change that with a new feature-length BBC Two documentary about the designer.
Chanel’s absence on screen is partly down to the fact that very little footage of her exists aside from a couple of interviews from the 1950s and some 1930s B-roll. But it’s also, the director says, because Chanel has long been underestimated. “She’s — for me — the most legendary designer ever, not even just ‘woman designer,’” says Berryman, who has directed documentaries about topics as varied as music studios, robots and beauty queens and is a former creative director of film at British Vogue.
In “Unbuttoned,” which was produced by WhyNow Studios and executive produced by Janet Lee, Berryman examines Chanel’s life and legacy, including her early years as an orphan and, later, her romantic dalliances with glamorous men including the Duke of Westminster. Fremantle are repping global rights to the doc, which is also available as a two-parter. The international version will also include a brief glimpse into Coco’s disastrous time in Hollywood.
“She didn’t really like it [there],” Berryman explains. “Because they wanted everyone to look really va-va-voom and Chanel just made women look quite ordinary. So that didn’t go very well and she flounced back off to France.” Ahead of the documentary’s premiere in the U.K.
on Sept. 15, Berryman sat down with Variety to discuss the making of “Coco Chanel Unbuttoned” and how the designer was instrumental in breaking barriers for women. Where did this project start for you? I had read that the Victoria & Albert Museum [in London, U.K.] were doing a big
.Penelope Cruz is attending the latest Chanel Show!
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