Jean Paul Gaultier welcomes us onto the set of his new ad campaign.
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... In 1993, Jean Paul Gaultier, aka “fashion’s ‘enfant terrible,’” decided to launch his first fragrance for women. It was an immediate stunner. The bottle’s singular curves evoked the couturier’s bustiers and corsets. The tin-can inspired packaging was another avant-garde idea. Inside something that audacious, the fragrance had to be bold too: rose, vanilla, orange blossom, amber, sandalwood, ginger… Fifteen years later, women are still falling in love at first sight with ‘Classique’.
 


Bottle 'Classique'

 


New print ad campaign for
Jean Paul Gaultier’s perfume 'Classique'.

 

...That’s the message the couturier wanted to get across in Classique’s new campaign. We see, not one woman, but a multitude of women: blonde, brunette, long-haired or with boyish cuts; femme fatale or femme fragile.

Five women incarnate the Gaultier woman: Audrey Marnay, Mariacarla Boscono, Milagross Schmoll, Morgane Dubled and Marie Meyer. They gossip, laugh, twirl their skirts and touch up their hair and make-up. They look at each other or in the mirror. The boudoir-like setting’s flesh-pink hue echoes the color of the fragrance’s bottle.

Director and photographer Jean Baptiste Mondino orchestrates the ballet of young women who share the perfume like a secret. It passes from hand to hand, emanating a precious aura that is reinforced by the music, an aria from Puccini’s opera Turandot, sung by tenor Roberto Alagna.

An ad with an aura of gentle sensuality: 29 seconds of tender femininity for which we invite you to see the making-of. As a bonus, you’ll also get to go behind the scenes for the upcoming campaign for ‘Le Mâle,’ which won’t be seen on-screen until September 2007...
 
 

 

 

The signature “tin can” package... A bold ‘nobody but Gaultier’ statement that is also used for the men’s fragrance Le Mâle
Jean-Paul Gaultier.