Sofia Coppola has long acted as muse to marquee fashion designers like Marc Jacobs and Karl Lagerfeld (she interned at Chanel as a teenager). She has also directed commercials for Dior’s fragrance Miss Dior. Now the director of the upcoming live-action adaptation of “The Little Mermaid” is lending her talent to a lesser-known name: Calder, a made-in-L.A. label started last year by her cousin-in-law Amanda Blake. Coppola recently shot the look book for Calder’s fall/winter 2014 collection, a series of soft jersey tees, tanks and T-shirt dresses whose easygoing aesthetic dovetails with Coppola’s own. “I tried to show the line how I would wear it,” says Coppola, who shot the images in her New York apartment so as to feel “intimate and basic.” The results have the same warm, personal quality as Coppola’s films. “I just tried to show the clothes in a way that felt real.”
