As Oscar winning costume designer Milena Canonero faced the tall task of creating the looks for Sofia Coppola ’s Marie Antoinette , the filmmaker happened to arrive in Italy with a gift from France.

“We decided to make own costumes, and not rent them. We made them in a workshop that we set up in Rome,” Canonero recalled on Friday during a Cartier masterclass conversation presented during the Venice Film Festival. “Sofia came to visit and arrived with an enormous box of macarons. Everybody knows them now, but in those days they were quite new, especially in Italy. In a very gentle way, she did not say that it was going to be the palette, but rather, ‘I really like these colors.’”

As Oscar winning costume designer Milena Canonero faced the tall task of creating the looks for Sof

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