Sofia Coppola Talks Priscilla Presley in W Magazine Vol-5 2023 by Steven Meisel AOC Fashion

Reading about Sofia Coppola’s young-girl life, we learn just how much time the entire Francis Ford Coppola family spent away from their home in California’s Napa Valley.

Coppola is styled by Karl Templer in an abundance of Chanel Haute Couture in images by Steven Meisel [IG]. Additional luxury names include Dries Van Noten, Hermes, Prada, Schiaparelli and more. Spectacular jewelry is from Cartier.

After the first few paragraph’s of the director’s W Magazine Originals 2023 interview with Lynn Hirschberg in New York, Anne muttered “she sounds like an army brat”.

That’s exactly how Sofia Coppola described herself a few words later.

Priscilla Presley is the focus of the younger Coppola’s new film Priscilla, in theaters November 3.

Presley’s memoir, Elvis and Me, with ‘me’ played by American actor Cailee Spaeny, tells the story of Elvis and Priscilla Presley from their first meeting on a military base in Germany to the end of the marriage 14 years latter. The tabloid-making, divorce-decision headline was Priscilla’s decision.

Nothing about the marriage was ordinary. Priscilla was age 14 when she met Elvis and age 17 when her parents agreed to let her live at Elvis’ home Graceland.

“By day, Priscilla went to Catholic school in Memphis for her senior year, and at night she would party with Elvis,” Coppola continued with Hirschberg.

Millions of women can relate to the director’s reflection about her own young woman’s life. Pining for a young man who wasn’t interested in her, Coppola says she can relate to Priscilla’s short-term lack of need to develop her own self-identity because it was so much easier to be the girlfriend of some guy and assume his identity.

New Book: Sofia Coppola Archive 1999–2023

AOC skips over much more interview dialogue about the film to Sofia’s fashion world choices. In addition to Priscilla, there’s her book Sofia Coppola Archive 1999–2023, which is a collection of photos taken on the sets of all her films. Note that Chanel cohosted the book publication party with W Magazine on September 24.