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January 8, 2015 11:16 AM Subscribe
Céline Unveils Its Latest Poster Girl: Joan Didion [New York Times]
“I don’t have any clue,” said the 80-year-old author of well-thumbed classics such as “The White Album,” “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” and “The Year of Magical Thinking,” reached by telephone on Wednesday at her Upper East Side residence (where the photo, by Juergen Teller, was taken). “I have no idea.” Whose idea was this? “They got in touch with me,” Ms. Didion said, as crisp as one of Phoebe Philo’s cotton tunics."[The Céline ad featuring Joan Didion.]
"And now let’s talk about Céline’s just-debuted ad campaign featuring French dancer Marie-Agnes Gillot, model Freya Lawrence, and none other than immortal intellectual-and-otherwise dream girl Joan Didion." [Vogue]
I want to be Joan Didion when I grow up.
posted by Diablevert at 11:40 AM on January 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Diablevert at 11:40 AM on January 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
I'm sorry, but I hate Céline Didion. I don't care how popular she is in Canada. Wait, what?
posted by The Bellman at 11:45 AM on January 8, 2015 [13 favorites]
posted by The Bellman at 11:45 AM on January 8, 2015 [13 favorites]
Chic French luxury brand puts skinny white woman in new advertisement;
but she's old!
posted by leotrotsky at 11:59 AM on January 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
but she's old!
posted by leotrotsky at 11:59 AM on January 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
My favourite Didion is Packing-List Didion.
posted by peripathetic at 12:03 PM on January 8, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by peripathetic at 12:03 PM on January 8, 2015 [2 favorites]
My real peeve isn't pictures of celebrities, but that harsh flash photography style that's all the rage these days, especially when the victim is angled just right so that you can see up her nose, brightly lit all the way up into her sinuses. Gross.
posted by Fnarf at 12:07 PM on January 8, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by Fnarf at 12:07 PM on January 8, 2015 [2 favorites]
Chic French luxury brand puts skinny white woman in new advertisement; but she's old!
posted by leotrotsky
Didion, Trotsky, there's something to be said for trying to live up to one's reputation.
posted by octobersurprise at 12:32 PM on January 8, 2015
posted by leotrotsky
Didion, Trotsky, there's something to be said for trying to live up to one's reputation.
posted by octobersurprise at 12:32 PM on January 8, 2015
My real peeve isn't pictures of celebrities, but that harsh flash photography style that's all the rage these days
At least it was Juergen Teller they sent to photograph her, and not Terry Richardson.
posted by Flashman at 1:59 PM on January 8, 2015
At least it was Juergen Teller they sent to photograph her, and not Terry Richardson.
posted by Flashman at 1:59 PM on January 8, 2015
Is it just me, or does the woman in the picture on the left look like she's just stood up from squatting near that tree to pee? There is something hopelessly glamourous about attending a party where you wear red platform heels but pee in the bushes.
posted by mai at 2:00 PM on January 8, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by mai at 2:00 PM on January 8, 2015 [2 favorites]
Céline Didion would be a great name for an impersonator/tribute one-woman-band.years
Or a great Metafilter username. Just saying.
posted by kandinski at 2:22 PM on January 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
Or a great Metafilter username. Just saying.
posted by kandinski at 2:22 PM on January 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
Chic French luxury brand puts skinny white woman in new advertisement; but she's old!
yea, um, seriously. this is a really low-risk "risky" thing to do. it's an absolute publicity stunt, almost perfectly targeted at the type of bloggers who will repost going "omg you go girl!".
this is a lot more pepsi blue than a powerful statement of any kind.
posted by emptythought at 2:27 PM on January 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
yea, um, seriously. this is a really low-risk "risky" thing to do. it's an absolute publicity stunt, almost perfectly targeted at the type of bloggers who will repost going "omg you go girl!".
this is a lot more pepsi blue than a powerful statement of any kind.
posted by emptythought at 2:27 PM on January 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
it's an absolute publicity stunt
Nothing gets past you, eh?
posted by octobersurprise at 2:40 PM on January 8, 2015 [5 favorites]
Nothing gets past you, eh?
posted by octobersurprise at 2:40 PM on January 8, 2015 [5 favorites]
Related: Joni Mitchell Is Saint Laurent's New Campaign Star
posted by vac2003 at 4:31 PM on January 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by vac2003 at 4:31 PM on January 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
At least it was Juergen Teller
Oh that explains why I thought it was a Marc Jacobs ad.
posted by TWinbrook8 at 10:01 PM on January 8, 2015
Oh that explains why I thought it was a Marc Jacobs ad.
posted by TWinbrook8 at 10:01 PM on January 8, 2015
If Joan Didion is happy, I am happy. At this point, when anything happens that means Joan Didion has had a nice moment in her day, I'm pleased for her.
And it is very easy to sit where you sit and take the piss -- "oh yeah, she's old, it's a total publicity stunt" -- but whatever. The magazines outside of the AARP basically never show women over the age of 50 basically never, so it is surprising and interesting to some of us.
posted by DarlingBri at 4:23 AM on January 9, 2015 [3 favorites]
And it is very easy to sit where you sit and take the piss -- "oh yeah, she's old, it's a total publicity stunt" -- but whatever. The magazines outside of the AARP basically never show women over the age of 50 basically never, so it is surprising and interesting to some of us.
posted by DarlingBri at 4:23 AM on January 9, 2015 [3 favorites]
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