It’s a wonder that Marc Jacobs hasn’t yet had the glossy, big-screen fashion documentary treatment. Sure, there was 2007’s Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton , Loïc Prigent’s eye-opening account of the prolific designer’s time at the helm of the storied French fashion house, but in the age of Dior and I , High & Low – John Galliano , and Martin Margiela: In His Own Words , he’s a star who’s certainly been overdue a splashier cinematic retrospective. That now comes courtesy of his close friend and longtime collaborator, Sofia Coppola, who makes her documentary debut with Marc by Sofia , a vibrant collage of the fashion legend’s life, work, references and obsessions, which just premiered at the Venice Film Festival .

If you’re not familiar with the designer’s triumphant graduation from

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