Sofia Coppola’s New Book on Chanel’s Couture Legacy Deserves a Spot on Your Coffee Table  — Here’s How to Read It

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, WWD may receive an affiliate commission. There’s no doubt about it: Sofia Coppola is a modern-day Renaissance woman, having not only directed Academy Award–winning films but also cut her teeth in the screenwriting, modeling and acting industries. Now, the 54-year-old multi-hyphenate can add one more credit to her name — that of book editor, as she just released a 448-page tome detailing the rich history of Chanel, guided by her own memories at the label’s haute couture salon in the late ’80s. Cracking open “Chanel Haute Couture,” from Mack Books’ Important Flowers imprint, is like entering the glory days of the still-iconic fashion house through a secret back door. Inside, Coppola lends her indelible style and curatorial touch to the vast assortment of sketches, snapshots of Chanel’s most influential clients throughout the years lensed by no-less-influential photographers, and beyond. Those who have a penchant for a particular era of Chanel, be it when it operated under the creative direction of Karl Lagerfeld or Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel herself, will be happy to find that the book gives justice to every single part of the brand’s legacy. Chanel Haute Couture, by

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