Sofia Coppola design shoes, handbags for Louis Vuitton

Posted Oct 2nd 2008 at 10:35AM by Josh Loposer (Subscribe to Josh Loposer's posts)

Filed under: Accessories, CELEBRITY STYLE, Fashion, Celebrity

Sure, she won an Oscar for directing Lost in Translation, but can Sofia Coppola's celluloid skills translate into the world of fashion? Apparently, Louis Vuitton is willing to take the risk on her sartorial skills, they're letting her design a range of shoes and handbags that will be launched in Tokyo -- ironically the setting of her acclaimed film -- and the sold in luxury stores worldwide.

Of course, we already know that LV and the Coppolas are BFFs ever since Sofia and her father posed for Annie Leibovitz for LV's "core values" campaign. But that doesn't appear to be the only reason the French luxury designer tapped Sofia for the project. Apparently, Sofia has a background in fashion design that dates back to her pre-film days. After graduating from the California Institute of Arts, Coppola started her own clothing line named Milk fed, which, appropriately enough, is sold exclusively in Japan.

[via BlackBook]

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Ana Carola Cardenas 10-03-2008 @ 2:06PM

Good morning. Please allow me to introduce myself; my name is Ana Carola Cardenas and I work for a Mexican magazine called Le Fourquet (www.lefourquet.com). The magazine is focused on international lifestyle and gourmet and it is published by Milenio Editorial Group, one of the most important newspapers and media enterprises in Mexico (www.milenio.com). The distribution currently takes place in Mexico City and Monterrey, capital city of business in Mexico.

Le Fouquet’s readers can find out in the publications, articles concerning the most updated information about fashion, gourmet, beauty, health, art, amongst others. The magazine is mainly focused for those who want to follow a luxury lifestyle.

Since we look forward to maintain the quality of our magazine and interest of our readers, we would like to prepare a special feature of stylelist for Le Fourquet magazine. For this reason, I’d like to ask for some high resolution pictures (300 dpi or 1 MB at least) of Sofia Coppola colaboration for Louis Vuitton from your side.

Thanks in advance and I am looking forward to hearing from you.

Ana Carola Cardenas

Le Fourquet

Grupo Editorial Milenio

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