Vogue (US) Fall 2004, Posted by MeMcNic Options

[friendlyfox]

The first good spread on Chanel was in this issue of Vogue US issue, Fall (September) 2004.

For Baz fans this was a great issue with the inclusion of his diary.

This was scanned by Lynnie (MeMcNic). THANK YOU LYNNIE

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[MyNicole]

Beautiful scan~~

and first one is really fantastic~~

Thank's foxy and Lynnie~

[friendlyfox]

Thanks MyNicole. Well I did not do much towards the scans! But I did do a transcript for us.

Vogue September 2004

take five

It was all Marilyn Monroe slept in, and the on thing, so said Catherine Deneuve, that can make an y man want you. Now, to keep Chanel No 5 every woman's best-kept secret, Baz Luhrmann and Nicole Kidman have teamed up to make a two-minute epic. Excerpts from the director's diary.


JANUARY 3, 2003
Sydney, Bronte Beach
The last fewmonths have been horrendous. Doing the first-ever classical opera on Broadway [La Boheme] while scripting, designing, casting, and scouting the globe to make a movie with a $150 million budget [an untitile project about the life of Alexander the Great] has just about killed us. All this time we've also been trying to have a baby - and failing. CM [Catherine Martin, Luhrmann's wife and production designer] has really been through it - two miscarriages, both on opening nights. Our work is to create. There's a blank page, then there;s something - a movie, an opersa. But the one thing we want more than anything we can't make happen. The blank page remains blank.

I know it must look as though we lead a charmed life. We do - almost too charmed. At a preview of Chicago a few weeks ago, Harvery [Weonstein] thanks us publicly. Later that night, we jump on a Global Explorer that Dino [De Laurentiis, who is producing the movie with Luhrmann] arranged through Universal Pictures [the studio funding the movie with Dreamworks], stopping n Rome to pick him up. He's brought breakfasat-fresh bocconcini, tomatoes, coffee. That night, it's dinner in Amman [Jordan] with Queen Rania and His Majesty King Abdullah II, who has offered us the use of his army as extras if we film there. By the way of the king's Black hawk helicopter, we're also given a tour of the desearts of Wadi Rurn, where Lawrence of Arabia was shot, that ends, at nightfall, with the sight of Ptrea ablaze with hundreds of candles. A trip like that is such a rush it momentarily makes the frantic pace seem manageable. It's also what I call 'experience bulimia'.

Then things really get out of hand. Just as we pul into Paris, and check in at the Paza Athenee, where we we're spending Christmas, Dino calls with big news- the rumors that Olvier Stone is making his own movie about Alexander have been confrimed. If we don't start shooting first our production could be jeopardized. Now we have to go even faster! This washes over us at a moment when we are alrady feeling totally trapped. Lately, about the only place we've been able to be alone is our hotel bathroom. "How did we get into this?" CM asks me. "It's like we're on a roller coaster we can't control." We have a talk and decide it's come time to stop, if only for a brief break. There's somehting bigger than a movie in our lives rightnow. We've come back to the beach house, and we're gong to make this baby happen.

FEBRUARY 13
Chanel has offered Nicole [Kidman] a contract to become the next face of No 5, and they wan tme to conceive, direct, and produce the ad campaign. We're always looking for ways to collaborate - she's committed to play Olympias, Alexander's mother- but I can't really consider the offer, with all I'm juggling. Still, the idea interests me. We're all engaged in the wrok of selling an audience something. In moives, it's an emotin, a belief, an observation - in advertising, a product or a service. But the tools of the trade are fundamentally the same, and sometimes the art of advertising can even resilt in artistic greatness- Toulouse Lautrec, Rockwell, et cetera.

There's also an interesting link with the Red Curtain Trilogy [Strictly Ballroom, Romeo+Juliet, Moulin Rouge]. Chanel No 5 is a cultural icon, not some fragrance of the season that reqiores a direct sell. What I'm thinking is much more ambitious- a story about a the essence of the kind of woman who wears No 5, the product being just a touchstone in the drama, like Tiffany's in Breakfast at Tiffany's.

For the past ten years, touring to promote my movies, I've sometimes remarked "how potent the love story can be" - you can use it to reveal alarge idea about the human condition or to inspre people to march into Poland (even war stories have an element of love, afer all- they're antilove0. What seems incredible to me now is that here I am considering using a love story to sell perfume-whynot?

MARCH 22 - Los Angeles

Down to the wire on the Chaenl decision. Nicole says she's told them, "No Baz, no me," Chanel's positon is that it won't take more than three weeks. Three weeks- I don't have three days to spare right now. Nicole is lobbbying to accommodate our dates for Alexander. It's the only way.


hmmm...maybe I did not finish the transcript!! I will make sure I do.

[friendlyfox]

Hmm...look at my spelling mistakes too. I am sure I did the whole thing somewhere. I remember how much I enjoyed doing it. I think I have found an initial one I did....

ah well. . I shall enjoy doing it again if I cannot find the full one I did.

[iluffnicole]

THANKS FOXY!!!