Somewhere and the younger sister of Dakota, is only 12, lest you forgot or never knew. But she walks down the red carpet and lies across magazine pages in designer fashions like Chanel. She, among other tweens and teens, is already a "style icon," or, in the words of the Daily Beast, "fashion's favorite star." Salon's Mary Elizabeth Williams says it's Too Soon, suggesting that these young ones are being dressed as if they've already reached sexual maturity, and that the pressure and exposure is unhealthy
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It may be true that the fashion industry is preying on younger & younger women, but Elle Fanning in the still excerpted above is the wrong exemplar. In this scene (cited as well as over at The Awl), we see Stephen Dorff dressed up as an adult for the first time in the film. Fanning, as a child of a Hollywood star (Dorff's character) acts as much of an adult (or more) as Dorff does, and Coppola uses fashion to drive that point home. The look on Dorff's face when Fanning walks in the room is a sublime moment.
We watched this film cold — all I knew about it was that Sofia Coppola directed it. I actually spent the first half of the film waiting for Kiki Dunst to show up! I'm sure this has been covered elsewhere, but I have to wonder how many of the great moments in this great film (besides complaining about the "hard" level in Guitar Hero), were autobiographical, either as the daughter or the party-hopping ingenue.
A source close to Hello, TypePad says: "That girl is pretty hot, but that's pretty wrong. This is why I never want to have a daughter." What do you think?
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