Seriously, Angelina Jolie copped her steez! Esther Cañadas was the business back in the ’90s. She captivated in Donna Karan’s DKNY ads – she could play fierce, feminine or mysterious. Just wish she was still around in fashion…
See also: Postcard from New York, Remember Esther Cañadas + Mark Vanderloo?
Campaign images for Jimmy Choo’s first fragrance are out. Shot by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, the ads star the brand’s own Chief Creative Officer Tamara Mellon. I like the ad – the wood panel backdrop, the similarly patterned dress and bottle, the erogenous collar bone emphasis. But those were afterthoughts. My first reaction: Hey, that’s kinda like David LaChapelle’s 2001 portrait of Angelina Jolie!
His work has certainly been “inspiring” others of late (remember, he’s suing Rihanna for directly deriving his imagery in her “S+M” music video). As I noted before in J.Crew Pawns Prada (pictured above), these things happen all the time in fashion art direction…maybe even unknowingly.
