Brad Pitt Enters the World of Women’s Fragrance
Pitt follows in the footsteps of Coco Chanel, Marilyn Monroe, Catherine Deneuve, Lauren Hutton, Nicole Kidman and Audrey Tautou, and enters the world of women’s fragrance.
For Joe Wright, the director of the new advertising campaign, the scent is “a phenomenon that continues to invent and reinvent itself.” Case in point: the unexpected decision to sign Brad Pitt as the face of N°5.
The campaign views the fragrance through the eyes of a man and fits in with the claimed reputation of N°5, which broke down barriers, as well as Coco Chanel, a woman who dared to be different.
“What’s important to remember about CHANEL N°5 is how revolutionary this fragrance is; when it was introduced, it broke all the rules,” says Pitt. “N°5 has always been the most iconic women’s fragrance. That’s what I see being the appeal of this campaign; it goes beyond the abstract of emotion or beauty to evoke what is timeless: a woman’s spirit.”
[ Also Read: Lovingly by Bruce Willis Fragrance for Women ]Film Director Joe Wright, known for his movies Pride and Prejudice, Atonement and the upcoming Anna Karenina, plus two Keira Knightley Coco Mademoiselle commercials, was commissioned to direct several commercial films for N°5, which capture the memories, thoughts and dreams of a man being seduced by a fragrance.
[ Also Read: Halle Berry Gets Ready to Reveal the Passion ]CHANEL N˚5, the world’s top fragrance, made its debut in 1921. Coco Chanel asked the great perfumer, Ernest Beaux, to create a fragrance that reflected her very modern fashion philosophy.
N˚5 was her lucky number and it was the fifth submission presented to Mademoiselle Chanel on the fifth day of the fifth month of the year.
