She excels in creating fairytale gowns for the red carpet, but now Georgina Chapman, wife of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, is venturing into the film world.
BY Olivia Bergin | 15 August 2012
Photo: GETTY She's dressed the most famous actresses on the planet and is five years into a marriage with film producer Harvey Weinstein, so perhaps its no surprise that Georgina Chapman wants to dip a toe into the movie world.
The designer, who founded label Marchesa in 2004, is teaming up with Canon and director Ron Howard to take part in the first photography-inspired film festival, Project Imaginat10n. Chapman, along with actors Eva Longoria and Jamie Foxx, will direct short films inspired by Canon consumers' photograph submissions. The results will be revealed next year.
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The 36-year-old instantly knew she couldn't turn the project down. "What an amazing opportunity to do something like direct a movie and step out of your creative comfort zone and yet do something that is also so familiar at the same time" she told WWD . "I was also just excited to have the chance to direct, which I may never get to do again."
Harvey Weinstein and Georgina Chapman. PHOTO: Getty
Understandably, Chapman's husband Harvey Weinstein, who was executive producer on films such as The Artist and Inglorious Basterds , is amused by his wife's career diversification. "When I first told him, he laughed," says Chapman. "I'm now waiting for him to come home and say he's going to do his first collection. I'm like, "Come on, then. This is easy, this filmmaking stuff. Now do a collection."
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Project Imaginat10n will be based on 10 storytelling elements with 10 films to be produced, five by directors who will be revealed at a later date.
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