Jackie's Costume Designer on How She Collaborated With Chanel

WWW: You mention a high level of perfection in her appearance. What did that take to achieve?

MF: It’s something you can see with luxury [fashion]. The cuts and fabrics might be the best (without being ostentatious). The houses of couture [during the ’60s] used to make an underdress very close to the body, and the dress a bit more loose to live around the maintained body. We did that, too. Then the hats (that I have read Jackie didn't like so much) and the gloves finished the outfit.

WWW: How much of the costumes did you make?

MF: We made all the costumes. They had to match the footage or the pictures of reference. Some pieces we used came from vintage resellers, couture, and jewelers. Nothing was authentic to the [history]—the pink Chanel suit she wore when JFK was assassinated is kept sealed. The pink suit we made for Natalie had buttons, chain, and the period label, lent by Chanel. 

WWW: Isn't that similar, if not exact, to how Jackie’s original pink suit was created, with borrowed Chanel materials? 

MF: The Chanel press person, Elsa Heizmann, called me when she heard about the project to propose a collaboration. It was not possible for us to lose the control of the process so we made the costumes in our workshop. Chanel chose the choice of the fabric, the color, and the quality of the workmanship, and proposed buttons and a label.

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