Morocco by Way of the Standard
Celebrating Co's New Film With the French Set
Given that Co designers Stephanie Danan and Justin Kern reside in L.A., you'd expect that the party André Saraiva threw in their honor would be swarmed by Angelenos. Not exactly: Last night's bash at the Standard was in fact a rather Gallic affair, attended by, among others, Élodie Bouchez. Bouchez starred in the film featuring the Spring '12 collection that screened at the soirée, and her husband, Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter, directed it. As Danan explained, she's known Bangalter and Bouchez "forever." "Actually, I met Thomas the same night Élodie did," Danan recalled. "They got introduced at a party at my old house."
The movie is a surreal tale of a woman—Bouchez—trapped in the city taking care of her invalid boyfriend, who is portrayed in the film by Kern. When he won't get better, she hustles him off to Morocco, a place of beating sunshine and Berber incantation. "It's like the end of the world," Bangalter noted of the desert landscape where the film was shot. "Or like being in
space. I think the clothes have these two sides, too—of the city, of structure, and then of something rougher and more wild."
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