French actress Audrey Tautou
Audrey Tautou turns the tables At the end of her interview with the LA Weekly’s Gendy Alimurung, French actress Audrey Tautou asked if she could snap the writer’s picture. Does it with all the journalists and has since the beginning. “You know, it’s my little collection,” she said. Asked what she does with the pictures, Tautou laughed — “nothing!” — while her translator joked, “Check her Facebook page.” “Coco Before Chanel” opens in L.A. on Friday.
But in Los Angeles, fashion fandom is not cultivated without self-consciousness, which I have experienced ever since my youthful hand groped a lambskin glove in Giorgio’s. I have been, in a sense, begotten as a cultural subject by an industry that bites its lip to see which story rises to the top of the box office every weekend, calculating the economics of cultural sentiment and seduction. The construction of image and culture has always been a known variable. As an L.A. native, the larger dose of critical distance from these products one could achieve, the more one was able to manipulate their offerings.
News of the forthcoming film, Coco Before Chanel, met me with a familiar, however generally repressed twinge of discomfort. Meant to enlighten us to the life of Ms. Gabrielle Chanel before she cut her first cloth, the adorable Audrey Tautou speaks to us as the artist at her most culturally transparent – the living youth of Coco! The pearl in that unshucked (costume) oyster! The vicissitudes of this type of film always make me squirm – we will see her determination, an uncanny knack for rendering silk faille, love affairs, France and the French.
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