AUGUST 7, 2009
Working Girl Gets Chic
In the film, Tatou portrays Chanel’s days working as a seamstress, so Anne Fontaine, the movie’s director, asked Leterrier to create this uniform. “Over 200 costumes in the movie were originals. We went to fashion houses in England, France and Spain for the others,” says Leterrier. “The challenge was that she had to look great, but very poor.”