I thought we’d seen the last of Marion Cotillard’s jetsetting advertisements for Christian Dior’s Lady Dior purses, but it seems there’s life in the campaign yet. In the latest installment the Academy Award winning French actress has headed to Russia.
Or at least, that’s what Christian Dior would like us to believe. While the vivid spires of St. Basil’s Cathedral color the view out the window, photographer Craig McDean actually captured Marion lounging in Paris. The pregnant actress was unable to make the journey to The Red Square, so the French fashion company has done the next best thing.
It doesn’t have the same spontaneous immediacy that we’ve seen in the other Lady Dior advertisements, but I can’t be too critical. Marie-Amelie Sauve has done a wonderful job styling the shoot, with the help of hairdresser San McKnight and make-up artist Christophe Danchaud. Marion is glowing, and that red tweed Lady Dior bag doesn’t look half bad either!
The new advertisement, which will hit fashion magazines in May and June, is well timed. Christian Dior will show a major exhibition at Moscow’s Pushkin Museum next month, an event which will coincide with the reopening of its Stoleshnikov boutique. Pass the vodka!
