![]() What was the most surprising thing that you found out while making “Unbuttoned”? Her story is great because it’s always a struggle between those things. She had these loves and her heart was broken and she loved what she did. And she is a great story, I think, because she wanted it all, like we all do. It also sounds like a very modern story, especially the fact she ultimately had to choose between her career and her relationships.Įxactly. So, in a way, the changing role of women and what they were going to do and how they were going to think of themselves, she understood this was tied up with how you presented yourself. And that’s what was interesting about it Chanel just understood that. Whether you think you are or not, you’re telling people about yourself in what you wear. But for me, it’s just as important as any of the arts. People don’t know what to do with fashion if they don’t like it. So even though it’s nothing like it as a film, because of what we were working with, there is something similar.ĭo you feel that Chanel has been underestimated?Ībsolutely. So even though it’s nothing like “McQueen” and that’s in the present, in the same way Chanel’s life was there in the work and that’s why it has power. So it’s a more playful way to achieve the storytelling.ĭid you take inspiration from any other documentaries when making “Coco Chanel: Unbuttoned”? Some of the stories with Chanel are quite dramatic and some of them were funny and hopefully animation gives you a chance to play with that. ![]() On a fairly small budget, you can give a real flavor with animation. For me, it’s a great way if you haven’t got footage and you can’t necessarily dramatize it and make it look good. I did “Rockfield: The Studio on the Farm,” where we often animate what was going on with Oasis and Coldplay. You also use animation, with Sophie Marceau voicing Chanel. So I wanted this to be a story of a woman but also a story of that. And in a way, it’s the story of Chanel, because it’s a story of branding and it’s a story of someone who you could argue was the first influencer. They own a lot of the clothes, they own her apartment. How did you deal with that?Įarly on, I thought that I would want Chanel involved, because they’re the gatekeepers. There isn’t a lot of footage of Chanel in existence. I had read that the Victoria & Albert Museum were doing a big Coco Chanel exhibition and I just thought, “I’ve always wanted to make a film about her.” She’s - for me - the most legendary designer ever, not even just “woman designer.” And I didn’t realize when I set out how much the story of the clothes is her life, and her life is the clothes. 15, Berryman sat down with Variety to discuss the making of “Coco Chanel Unbuttoned” and how the designer was instrumental in breaking barriers for women. So that didn’t go very well and she flounced back off to France.”Īhead of the documentary’s premiere in the U.K. “Because they wanted everyone to look really va-va-voom and Chanel just made women look quite ordinary. “She didn’t really like it ,” Berryman explains. The international version will also include a brief glimpse into Chanel’s disastrous time in Hollywood. ![]() In “Unbuttoned,” which was produced by WhyNow Studios and executive produced by Janet Lee, Berryman examines Chanel’s life and legacy, including her early years as an orphan and, later, her romantic dalliances with glamorous men including the Duke of Westminster.įremantle is repping global rights to the documentary, which is also available as a two-parter.
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