For her first feature film, The Virgin Suicides, Sofia Coppola commissioned
British fashion photographer Corinne Day to join her on set. Renowned for her
unadorned, grungy photographs of iconic models of the 1990s, Day’s
representation of female beauty met its match in Coppola, whose debut marked the
first of her unaffected, empathetic depictions of womanhood. Edited from Day’s
original negatives, this volume, which launches alongside The Virgin Suicides'
twenty-fifth anniversary, gives mesmerising and unprecedented insight into
Coppola’s enigmatic staging of the Lisbon sisters and their suburban trappings.
In Day’s photographs, the lush mystique of Coppola’s set runs through images of
the young actors at work and between takes, their candid posturing and pensive
expressions reflecting the intimate and collaborative environment of the shoot.
Fragments of the set and costume design appear suggestively – crucifixes, pink
lace bras, homecoming dresses, beauty products, and toffee apples – all playing
their part in Coppola’s depiction of the yearning and repression of adolescence.
Completed with new texts by Sofia Coppola and Jeffrey Eugenides, this volume
opens a fascinating dialogue between Eugenides’s original text and Coppola’s
cult adaptation. Designed by Anamaria Morris for Joseph Logan Design
