Dolce and Gabbana

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This is Demi Moore spokes-modelling the new Helena Rubinstein juice: All You’ve Ever Wanted. I did not know the brand still existed. Helena Rubinstein herself was a stupendously hard-working, perpetually self-reinventive and wealthy Capricorn. She is probably organising the brand rejuvenation strategy from heaven. Seriously. Caps don’t stop working.

But this ad? Leaving aside the plastic texture of the skin (reminds me of that Libran Fembot from the other day) she looks like she is just eyeing up the target she is going to bash with that bottle. And what…she is sitting on the sofa and the Ashton-clone is hanging from the roof a la BAT? Is this a Twilight reference? Bit dated now, surely? And I am pro-Demi but I don’t like her in this.

See also the analysis of the shocker of the scent ad from the otherwise studly and talented Matthew McConaughey: “He looks constipated and up himself” is not a good brand association, no?

Compare Matthew’s shill for Dolce & Gabbana with this one and one has to come to the conclusion that Scorpio celebrities cannot do good perfume ads.

And the concept behind “All You’ve Ever Wanted” being contained in a bottle?  Focus Group infinity with Demi picked to front as young hubby, sane & healthy kids, $$$, long hair, brilliant skin, pleasant relationship with ex-hubby, tight abs and a million followers on Twitter symbolic of all anyone wants – yes?

So Dolce & Gabbana are doing five new scents & each is based on a Tarot Card – one of the Major Arcana, naturally.

Above is Scorpio Supermod Tyson Ballou who embodies The Magician - Le Bateleur.  Naomi Campbell is L’Imperatice, The Empress. That seems odd as the Empress is the Sensual Aspect of the Feminine Divine and usually has a strong motherhood connotation. Claudia Schiffer is La Lune, The Moon. It’s a card of artistic excess and dark emo faced up to pre-dawn, innuendo and poisoned nostalgia…Surely Claudia too Germanic and Virgo to be the Moon?

Below is the Piscean Eva Herzigova & Saggo Footie Guy Fernando Fernandes as – mysteriously – the fateful Wheel Of Fortune: La Roue de la Fortune…gardenia, patchouli, jasmine & tuberose. I reckon these would have been so much more fab if they’d had more esoteric layering involved – an essential oil here, astrologically matched models to represent the tarot cards. I mean how are Eva H and FF redolent of the Wheel Of Fortune? The card means Fate is in play and there is little you can do about the situation but to go with it for the moment.

And anyway, the Moon IS in Leo, but i really like her hair. Still, could they not have bunged in just a BIT of mystical symbolism with the packaging?

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