“It brought me back to how fun this era was,” says Coppola. “We were living in Saint-Germain in Paris and getting to work in Versailles. Everyone had their guard down. Some of Andrew’s photos have floated around for years—they’re online, they’re on counterfeit T-shirts. It’s special to bring them together in one place.” (Indeed, some of the most famous photos of the cast first ran in the April 2006 issue of French Vogue.)
“The images are filled with a lot of personal and intimate memories for me,” adds Coppola. “I met Thomas [Mars], my now husband, around this time. I love that Andrew ends the book with this image where I’m walking away, like that moment in Sixteen Candles.”
About a year ago, when Durham began putting this book together, he was at a screening of Marie Antoinette, where he heard someone in the audience say, “They don’t make films like that anymore.” “That comment really stuck with me,” he tells Vogue. “Sofia made such an effort to put all the artistry of her collaborators on the screen: the sets, the costumes, even the flowers. You don’t see that a lot anymore. Big-budget studio films seem to be made up of computer-generated images and the smaller indie films have more of a mumblecore approach, less cinematic. Looking back at these photographs reminded me how special and rare this was—and is.”
That the film was shot just before the iPhone was also, in hindsight, a boon: “I think that made a big difference. What would have been an Instagram-palooza was relatively undocumented,” he says. “It worked out great for me!”
His own favorite shot? A photo of Al Weaver, Mathilde Favier, and an extra having a cigarette break in costume, hanging out by the water cooler and chatting on their tiny flip phones.
“I still love to see those photos of people breaking character, at the craft service table, with their headphones on,” says Coppola. “I have a big print of some of our extras in their wigs taking a photo at my house—and now, this scrapbook.”
Photo: Andrew Durham, from Making Marie Antoinette (Important Flowers, 2026) Courtesy of the artist and MACK
Photo: Andrew Durham, from Making Marie Antoinette (Important Flowers, 2026) Courtesy of the artist and MACK
