Chanel N°5 Options

[Meisha]

Here's a scan from the current issue of Elle magazine.

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[easy4nk]

Beautiful ad. Meisha and Chattyjaz522 said it right "extremely airbrushed" and a "little fake" especially when you enlarged the picture. I like the recent Omega ad picture posted here couple of months ago. Nic was wearing a blue dress and she looks so gorgeous.

This post has been edited by easy4nk: Sep 12 2008, 03:01 PM

[nicolesgrace]

wow, I was just staring at this pic with a jawdrop thinking "How can a woman be so beautiful!?"
Thanks so much for the scan.
I can´t wait to have the pic in one of our Elle issues.

[ladysatine]

Beautiful ad. Meisha and Chattyjaz522 said it right "extremely airbrushed" and a "little fake" especially when you enlarged the picture. I like the recent Omega ad picture posted here couple of months ago. Nic was wearing a blue dress and she looks so gorgeous.

That's the problem...The pic looks fake, not real or natural...Comparing to the last Chanel ads and the recent Omega ad, this one looks like Nic is a Barbie or a doll...Don't understand why they did this...

[caurbangirl]

You're right, she almost doesn't look real. They really don't have to do that, she's beautiful just as she is!

[Meisha]

My favorite Chanel ad is that of Nicole in that sexy black dress with the No. 5 pendant dangling in the back. That came out the first year of her being their "spokesmodel". That ad used a bit of airbrushing too, as expected with ads. The overall image was that of elegance and sophistication, very much like the real Nicole. According to news report, sales of Chanel No. 5 went up 30% in that first year. Hmm... interesting "correlation" between the image projected in the ad and the sales increase?

I totally don't "get" what Chanel is doing with this new ad. They are introducing a "new" N^o. 5, the Eau Premiere, but they are using a photo from their old photoshoot and simply airbrushing/photoshopping it to look "new". This will be the last holiday season that Nic will be fronting their ad campaign. Next year, it will be Audrey Tautou, a younger actress. I find it very interesting that Chanel is airbrushing this old photo to make her appear years younger. It's totally "out of sync" with the video they have of her in that Baz commercial where you see the image of a very glamourous and successful movie star. The new ad projects the image of a young, bored socialite. To me, it's a bit tacky to keep recycling old photos for a new ad campaign simply by using more airbrushing, instead of doing another photoshoot.

Just for comparison, check out these two scans. The one on the left was used in the last holiday season and for most of this year. They did use some airbrushing with that ad. But the new ad on the right went overboard with airbrushing. If I didn't know Nicole is still associated with Chanel No. 5 until the end of this year, I would have said that's NOT her in the new ad and that they simply used a Nicole look-alike.

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Here are other photos used in the Chanel ads. I think all of these, including the recent ads, are from the same photoshoot at the time of filming the commercial.


btw.. some other fashion houses are going "older" in their ad campaigns by bringing back the supermodels from a decade ago instead of using the current models who are in their teens or early twenties. If you pick up fashion magazines like Vogue or Elle, you can't miss them.... Linda Evangelista (43), Claudia Schiffer (38), Cindy Crawford (42), Christy Turlington (39), and Naomi Campbell (38).



This post has been edited by Meisha: Sep 13 2008, 03:03 AM

[sylv]

That's the problem...The pic looks fake, not real or natural...Comparing to the last Chanel ads and the recent Omega ad

I wasn't keen on the photoshopping that was done in Nicole's lips in the recent Omega ad. I loved the picture used in the first Omega campaign.

[sylv]

Here's a scan from the current issue of Elle magazine.

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Thanks Meisha. Enlarged it looks beautiful.

[friendlyfox]

Thank you hikkiamigo for the photo. I hope it was alright for us to have it here from that group. But it is OK now as Meisha kindly found it in a magazine as well and scanned it for us.

Nicole looks very ethereal and beautiful there even if it has been the airbrushing has lost some of Nicole's natural beauty.

I am sorry your first post ever got a bit of criticism. I think the strength of the criticism was not necessary. Remember everyone to be kind in your responses. If you think it is airbrushed (bit hard to miss in this one) then we can mention it kindly without being too "over the top". I know sometimes when we post we are thinking more of the people who changed the photo - people who are some amorphous blob somewhere and who cares what we say about them (perhaps). But we need to also remember hikkiamigo posted this because hikkiamgo thought we would like to see it.

This post has been edited by friendlyfox: Sep 20 2008, 07:54 PM