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A woman on a mission

Posted by Robin on 5 December 2011 18 Comments

Actress Emily Blunt in the new Yves Saint Laurent Opium ad. This is the long (60 second) version; there are also 15, 20 and 30 second versions (and possibly more). The music is taken from Mozart’s Requiem Mass in D minor.

Below the jump, le making of.

We posted the teaser and some other Opium ads here.

Update: the 60 second version is no longer online; this is the 30 second version.

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Yves Saint Laurent Parisienne L’Essentiel ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 9 November 2011 13 Comments

Yves Saint Laurent Parisienne L'Essentiel

Yves Saint Laurent has launched Parisienne L’Essentiel, a new floriental variation on 2009’s Parisienne…

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Yves Saint Laurent La Collection YSL

Posted by Robin on 2 November 2011 34 Comments

Yves Saint Laurent Heritage Collection: In Love Again

Yves Saint Laurent has launched La Collection YSL, a set of eight fragrances (four for women, four for men) from their back catalog. Some of the fragrances had been discontinued, others were in very limited distribution…

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Living and loving in the moment

Posted by Robin on 5 October 2011 6 Comments

French model Marine Vacth for Yves Saint Laurent Parisienne.

You can find the original Kate Moss ad here.

Never has a perfume evoked such emotion

Posted by Robin on 3 October 2011 16 Comments

Actress Emily Blunt, in a teaser for the upcoming Yves Saint Laurent Opium ad.

Below the jump, three ads featuring model Linda Evangelista for Opium. The first two (politically incorrect) ads are from 1986; the last of the three Evangelista ads (in French) is from 1995.

Way down at the bottom, model Natalya Semonova in a 1999 ad directed by David Lynch (who also did ads for the fragrance in 1992).

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