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Coco Avant Chanel has been showing in French cinemas since late April, and it is gradually making its away across Europe and the rest of world at cheese fondue speed. No matter. The joy will not only be in watching the film when it finally arrives in Australia on 25 June, but also in watching the Chanel creations trotted out at each film premiere by the high priestess of cheekbones, Audrey Tautou.


As you are no doubt well aware, the film charts the transformation of orphan Gabrielle Chanel into one of the world's most highly-acclaimed and well known fashion designers - Coco Chanel - and her eponymous couture label. As Audrey says of her character, "Any woman who wants to invent a destiny for herself can identify with the early years of Coco Chanel, a young uneducated woman who dreams of entering the world while exacerbating her differences and ignoring everything of the extraordinary destiny awaiting her".

As lovely as her sentiments of the film, Audrey has also appeared in some gorgeous outfits to the various premieres of the film across Europe:




See the trailer (in French)... Wheee!


Also see below for Karl Lagerfield's black & white silent film teaser (this is an extract - his version went for 10 minutes). I love it - you don't need sound to know that there's plenty of air-kissing, "hello darling" and glasses clinking.



Coco Avant Chanel is yet another film that makes smoking sexy (ads for the film had to be re-shot or risk being banned in France, due to laws preventing anything advertising smoking).