The chocolate eyes, the gamine silhouette and the impossibly chic way she carried off her Chanel couture at this week’s Coco Avant Chanel premier, oh to be Audrey Tatou.
The Amelie-star plays the world’s greatest couturier Gabrielle Chanel in the hotly-anticipated biopic based on the biography written by Edmonde Charles-Roux. Focusing on the early part of Coco’s life – the film begins with her arrival at the orphanage where she would learn to sew, following her entry into high society and meetings with Etienne Balsan and Arthur Boy Capel, and finally ending with her debut runway show.
Speaking at the glittering premier held on the Champs Elysees, Audrey said “Obviously I had neither the taste nor the talent of Coco Chanel,” adding she would love to keep hold of the tweed jacket she wears in the film’s horse-riding scenes. Tatou’s outfits, by costume designer Catherine Leterrier and overseen by Mr. Chanel, Karl Lagerfield and often adapted from men’s attire, were the envy of the rest of the female cast.
Coco Avant Chanel is out 22nd April.
