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Printemps, Can You Feel It?

January 15, 2007 by Renee Claire

Printemps Alek Wek adI developed a strong attachment to French department store ads while in Paris–the ads are in every Metro station, and since staring at other passengers is not an option (two words: creepy men), I always stared at the ads.

One of my favorites (left) was by Printemps.  Great colors, and I love that Alek Wek looks so vibrant and happy.  So many fashion ads have miserable-looking models (or else they look like plastic dolls or mannequins, like Lindsay Lohan in her new Miu Miu ads).  I don’t understand it at all.  If you can afford a live model, why not make her look, you know, alive?

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  1. Tara says

    January 16, 2007 at 10:49 am

    Isn’t this Nyabel from the Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency?

  2. Betty says

    January 16, 2007 at 12:48 pm

    Nope. I agree they look similar, but this ad was from a May 2006 French Glamour. Also, the department stores tend to use well-known models–Letitia Casta did a series for Galeries Lafayette a few years ago.

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