Though Tom Ford’s first feature film will be screened in the main competition, the others won’t be entered for the festival’s main The Golden Lion Award prize. They will be shown alongside the film industry’s most promising Oscar contenders.

Tom Ford’s film is set in Los Angeles in 1962, at the peak of the Cuban missile crisis, and tells the tale of a British professor struggling after the death of his longtime partner. According to Ford’s production company, “The story is a romantic tale of love interrupted, the isolation that is an inherent part of the human condition, and ultimately the importance of the seemingly smaller moments in life.”

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Sometimes words can’t describe what Sandra Backlund can do with a knit. We are constantly amazed by her innovative and modern approach to a medium that is otherwise resigned to the ‘more mature’ generation. Each piece in the collection is improvised; rather than being based on patterns Sandra designs as she knits. What we most enjoy is that despite her success since the label’s inception in 2004 (note: a collaboration with Louis Vuitton for Fall 2007/08), there is still that bespoke stamp to each piece.

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The newest additions to the Louis Vuitton Core Values Campaign, which has featured the likes of Keith Richards, Steffi Graf, and Andre Agassi so far, are Sofia and Francis Ford Coppola.

The father-daughter directing duo recently posed for Annie Leibovitz in Argentina as part of the brand’s mission to underscore its historical roots in luggage and travel.