Chanel opened up its couture archives for Sofia Coppola to curate a photo book, and the result is over 400 pages of imagery of the most precious, one-of-a-kind fashion I’ve ever seen. For Chanel Haute Couture , Coppola worked with photo editor Kate Cunningham and art director Joseph Logan to sift through images from the 1930s to the present. They even unearthed fabric swatches and photographed rare feathers, one-of-a-kind buttons, and fine tweeds, which the house is known for. Chanel, the oldest couture house still producing, is one of the few brands that still has an atelier dedicated to the craft.

“It was a fun hunt,” says Coppola. “We got all the picture we loved. Images that I hadn’t seen before and images I knew well.” A fun fact is that Coppola, at the age of 15, interned for the

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