Manolo + Marie Antoinette

There is a nice little article about Manolo Blahnik in which he talks a little about designing shoes for Sofia Coppola's latest film, Marie Antoinette, soon to have its world premiere at Cannes.

The most recent of these is designing shoes for the sumptuous Marie-Antoinette - Sofia Coppola's latest film, which stars Kirsten Dunst and premieres at Cannes next week. "When the producers called, I dropped everything," he says. "When I was a boy, my mother read a Marie-Antoinette biography, and I have read Antonia Fraser's version. I can't wait to see it. They said 'make them sexy', but I wanted to do something very academic." He began by studying original 18th-century shoes in Paris and at the V&A Museum.

"I thought that we wouldn't even see the stupid shoes on her feet but, apparently, Kirsten Dunst goes shopping and there the shoes are… They tell me they are in a big shot."

You can take a look at the shoes through the full trailer, available for viewing here. They definitely look like confections, full of fancy and color. We are definitely looking forward to the release of Marie-Antoinette, if not for the ravishing costumes and sumptuous, melancholy cinematography, then for the absolutely cool soundtrack, which features not only the New Order song in the trailer, but the Cure, Aphex Twin, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Gang of Four, Bow Wow Wow, and the Strokes.

Posted by Kat in Accessories
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