Sunday, May 2, 2010

What is Perfume


Evidently, it's the only thing Marilyn Monroe wore to bed. And Coco Chanel, ruler of Parisian haute couture for six decades, said a woman who didn't wear it had no future.

Here's a Chanel No. 5 advertisement starring Nicole Kidman. If it all looks vaguely familiar it's because the two minute film is the work of Baz Luhrmann, the director of Moulin Rouge (starring none other than his muse, Nicole Kidman) and Strictly Ballroom, Mistress Quickly's all-time favorite flick.

For her part, Nicole Kidman became the world's highest paid actress in a commercial, pocketing a whopping $3 Million (approximately $1 for every tulip planted in Holland last year). The dress, of course, was designed for Chanel by Head Designer & Creative Director, Karl Lagerfeld. Total budget of the commercial: $102 Million. That's a lot of parfum!



9 comments:

  1. It is interesting to note that despite her perfume, she still grew up to become one of the Stepford wives.

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  2. Who? Nicole Kidman? Probably because she was married to Tom Cruise. But now she's married to Keith Urban so she is ok.

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  3. No, she grew up to be a Scientology wife although she did make a good Stepford wife. Bette was pretty good, too.

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  4. Is that a dress or did she get caught in the cotton candy machine at the fair?

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  5. Oh, what a marvelous idea. A cotton candy dress. You can just take it off and eat it at the end of the night.

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  6. Oh, doctor that one almost flew over my pretty, little head. I didn't notice your link. Of course, Nick was a Stepford wife. She's a witch, too!

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