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| Gabrielle Chanel: An Immortal Style |
This recent documentary explores the life and philosophy of Coco Chanel. Edmonde Charles-Roux, Chanel's biographer, is joined by 1950s supermodel Bettina, jewellery designer Robert Goossens, 1980s Chanel model Inès de La Fressange and Karl Lagerfeld as they discuss her impact on the world of fashion.
Packed with rare archival runway footage, the film touches on many of Chanel's achievements and innovations in clothing design and attitudes to modern dressing.
Australian premiere.
Screens with
A Tribute to Jacques Helleu
Total running time: 10 minsJacques Helleu, who died last year, was Chanel's artistic director and driving force behind the house's iconic fragrance ad campaigns for over forty years. In a world first, Chanel have kindly given ACMI permission to screen some of his most recognised commercials, including Catherine Deneuve's 1977 advertisement for the Chanel No 5 fragrance.
Helleu worked with many of the great names of world cinema, including Baz Luhrmann who directed Nicole Kidman in the latest Chanel No 5 advertisement and Joe Wright who not only directed Keira Knightly in his film
Atonement, but also in last year's campaign for Coco Mademoiselle. Both of these will also screen.
