Chanel opened the doors of its Rue Cambon headquarters this week for a private screening of “Coutures,” Alice Winocour’s drama starring Angelina Jolie in a poignant role as a filmmaker juggling a contentious divorce and a cancer diagnosis while trying to direct a film in a foreign country.
Set against the tumultuous backdrop of Paris Fashion Week, “Coutures” is the first fiction film allowed to shoot inside Chanel’s tailoring workshops and to access the Haute Couture salons and the iconic staircase (pictured above) on Rue Cambon.
Winocour tells the story of three women whose lives intersect: Maxine (Jolie), an American director who discovers she has breast cancer while filming and bonds
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