The British Academy Film Awards, perhaps better known as the BAFTAs, or "the British Oscars," are taking place in London this evening, and the stars are out in full force, wearing their glamorous awards-season best:
Critics say Coco Before Chanel, which comes out today, is an unusual biopic in that it focuses solely on who Coco Chanel was before she became famous. Some say it ends too soon, before revealing what made her a legend.
Perez Hilton told the Los Angeles Times this weekend that he is launching a new site for 20-something women. Although the site is still testing ahead of the official launch tomorrow, we were able to get a good, long look.
We were psyched enough to just look at the costumes in the Coco Avant Chanel preview...but now we get to read for ourselves how defiant and sassy and modern pre-WWII movie-magic Coco was! [New York via Elle]
Marion Cotillard's Dior handbag commercial was released online today — and it manages to cram a whole lot of plot into 6 1/2 minutes. Cotillard worked with her La Vie En Rose director, Olivier Dahan, much as Audrey Tautou recently worked with Jean-Pierre Jeunet for Chanel. [Times of London]
[Rome, May 6. Image via Bauer-Griffin]
France has a law against depicting smoking in advertising — so to avoid prosecution, the company that sells ads on Parisian public transportation banned a poster featuring Audrey Tautou as Coco Chanel holding a cigarette.
What happens when you get a high school freshman with passing knowledge of introductory French to translate the trailer for Coco Avant Chanel, starring Audrey Tautou? Faux-Français! Clip embedded after the jump. [Videogum]
[Paris, April 6. Image via Bauer-Griffin.]
You don't need to understand French to see that in this preview for Coco Avant Chanel, Audrey Tautou has a date with fashion destiny, a series of awesome period costumes. [YouTube via New York]
