Days before her debut film, Palo Alto, premiered at the Venice Film Festival, director Gia Coppola made a last-minute decision to buy a YSL tuxedo. “I didn’t know what I wanted to wear—and then I was like, screw it, I’m going to get it and it’s going to be something I’ll always have. I’ll remember this moment—my first film at Venice,” she recalls. A call to her grandmother, Eleanor Coppola (wife of director Francis Ford), revealed that the matriarch, too, had a YSL tux, hers from the sixties. That settled it—the 26-year-old knew she’d have it forever.
The tux stunned—but then, so did the velvet off-the-shoulder Christopher Kane piece, the dusty-rose Zac Posen with the trumpet hemline, the array of Proenza Schouler looks she wore on the festival circuit leading up to tonight's New York premiere. Drawn to designers whose process “feels like art and has a backstory,” Coppola counts Proenza, Rodarte, and friend Posen among her favorites. “He used to be my ‘adult supervisor’ when he stayed with a family friend on trips to LA.,” she says of Posen. “He’d really just take us out with him and we’d have a lot of fun.” Clad in an emerald Isabel Marant sweater and Top shop jeans, Coppola, seated in the garden of the Chateau Marmont on a cloudy day, fingers a heart-shaped Jennifer Meyer necklace that dangles from her neck. “I wear it every day,” she explains of the jewelry—a gift from her mother, Jacqui Getty, upon completion of her first film, “I need to get Palo Alto engraved on it.” The movie, which stemmed from James Franco’s eponymous book of short stories, was adapted and directed by Coppola, who was heralded as a young talent to watch as the piece made the rounds at the fall film festivals. Dev Hynes provided the sound track, and a young cast (including Emma Roberts, Nat Wolff, and Jack Kilmer) starred. Many of them stayed at Coppola’s mother’s house during filming. “I would drive them home after work and we’d all have dinner,” Coppola says, “It was like camp. I loved it.” She did post-production at her grandfather’s editing suite in Napa, and counts her aunt Sofia and uncle Roman among her favorite directors, along with Fincher, Sturgess, and Godard. The bloodline was inadvertently involved in the film debut, but the talent—and the YSL tuxedo—is all hers.
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