Sofia Coppola Will Direct a Documentary About Marc Jacobs: Marc by Sofia
By Nick Vivarelli, Ellise Shafer
July 22, 2025
It was announced this morning that Sofia Coppola will debut a documentary about longtime friend and collaborator Marc Jacobs at next month’s Venice Film Festival in an out-of-competition slot. The film will be titled Marc by Sofia, a play on Jacobs’s now defunct Marc by Marc Jacobs line.
This will be the first documentary for Coppola, who has directed industry favorite films like Priscilla, Marie Antoinette, and The Virgin Suicides. It’s also Jacobs’ first dedicated feature in a documentary since 2007’s Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton.
The two creatives have worked together for decades. Coppola starred in a Marc Jacobs fragrance campaign shot by Juergen Teller in 2002, collaborated with Jacobs on a bag collection while he worked at Louis Vuitton, appeared in his Fall 2015 ads, and worked with him on his in-house Heaven by Marc Jacobs line launched in 2020. Both have become emblematic of New York’s downtown fashion scene in the ‘80s and ‘90s.
There is no information yet surrounding which aspects of the life and career of Jacobs, who is fresh off the heels of his Fall 2025 show at the New York Public Library, the film will center. The infamous grunge collection for Perry Ellis, his stint as creative director of Louis Vuitton from 1997 to 2013, his work on his namesake line with its larger-than-life runway collections and youth-forward sister line Heaven—there’s so much to encapsulate. Regardless, that premiere’s red carpet—hopefully filled with fashion and film industry friends like Anna Sui and Kirsten Dunst and Coppola’s new-to-the-spotlight daughters Romy and Cosima—will be one to watch.
