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\n\tAs Oscar winning costume designer Milena Canonero<\/a> faced the tall task of creating the looks for Sofia Coppola<\/a>\u2019s Marie Antoinette<\/a><\/em>, the filmmaker happened to arrive in Italy with a gift from France. <\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWe decided to make own costumes, and not rent them. We made them in a workshop that we set up in Rome,\u201d Canonero recalled on Friday during a Cartier masterclass conversation presented during the Venice Film Festival. \u201cSofia came to visit and arrived with an enormous box of macarons. Everybody knows them now, but in those days they were quite new, especially in Italy. In a very gentle way, she did not say that it was going to be the palette, but rather, \u2018I really like these colors.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tCanonero got the hint and used those colors as a \u201cprincipal focus\u201d for the entire 2006 period piece starring Kirsten Dunst in the title role as France\u2019s rebellious queen. \u201cIn the macaron, you go from very pale pastel to dark chocolate to noir, black. I had the whole palette in front of me and it was a good idea,\u201d she added. <\/p>\n