‘Marc by Sofia’ Review: Sofia Coppola’s Documentary About Her Fashion BFF Marc Jacobs Captures but Never Unzips Its Subject
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It presents a lot of tasty clips of Jacobs through the decades, going back to his 1980s days at the Parsons School of Design, but the heart of the movie is its chronicle of the 12 weeks in which he dreamed up and put together his 2024 spring show. We’re eager to behold the drama of Jacobs bringing that dream to life, but as Coppola presents it, the strange thing about the process is that it’s nearly drama-free.
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Mar 21, 2026 1:45pm PT ‘Marc by Sofia’ Review: Sofia Coppola’s Documentary About Her Fashion BFF Marc Jacobs Captures but Never Unzips Its Subject It follows the fabled designer through the 12 weeks in which he put together his 2024 spring show. But the drama got left out of the mix. By Owen Gleiberman Plus Icon Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic @OwenGleiberman Latest ‘Tow’ Review: Rose Byrne Plays Another Charismatic Pill — a Seattle Homeless Woman Fighting to Get Her Car Back 2 days ago ‘Forbidden Fruits’ Review: The Salesgirls Are Witches in a Depraved Satirical Thriller That’s Like ‘Mean Girls’ Meets ‘The Craft’ Touched With Something Darker 5 days ago The 2026 Oscars Review: A Tasteful and Overly Safe Show Sustained by Just Enough Suspense 6 days ago See All I love a good fashion documentary, and there’s no mystery as to why the best ones, like “Unzipped” (1995) or “Valentino: The Last Emperor” (2008), tend to be organized around a single fashion season and a fabled designer’s creation of an indelible collection. (Remember how Isaac Mizrahi based his 1994 collection in “Unzipped” on a random TV viewing of the 1922 silent Eskimo documentary “Nanook of the North”? How could one forget?) That countdown structure allows us to see the creative process in bloom, and to experience all the backstage politics and drama of an approaching runway show. It’s a structure that also worked for the fashion-media documentary “The September Issue” (2009), and it’s been utilized in countless music docs as well. The formative film of the genre is probably Jean-Luc Godard’s “One Plus One” (1968), which documented the Rolling Stones recording “Sympathy for the Devil” (in between Godardian riffs on topics like Black revolution), a song that underwent so many changes in the studio that the result was one of the two or three most haunting movies about the creative process ever made. Related Stories 'Baywatch' Adds Nadia Gray to Recurring Cast
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