Fashion Is Fun Jan 8, 2009 @ 3:23pm

Dreaming of Dior

by Britt Aboutaleb

We interrupt this cold and snowy day to bring you something that, depending on your mood, will make you smile or make you cry.

If you’re having a good day and there’s a trip to Paris with bicycles and macaroons in your near future, Sofia Coppola’s commercial will make you want to skip down the sidewalk.

But, if you’re having a bad day and the only thing you have to look forward to is next week’s Gossip Girl, this girl’s ridiculously perfect, ridiculously gorgeous life might put you over the edge.

No matter which side you fall on, please note the Vogue shout out mid-commercial. Do you think that’s paid product placement or Sofia’s suggestion that life can’t be perfect without a copy of Vogue on the vanity?

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posted by guest

Jan 08, 2009 3:29PM

Aw thanks Britt that did cheer up my day! I actually downloaded that song into my IPOD bc it always cheers me up!

posted by guest

Jan 08, 2009 3:43PM

I love Maryna so much!

posted by LauraMilli

Jan 08, 2009 3:56PM

I love this commercial! Whenever I see it on TV I think about finding it online but always forget. Thanks!

posted by guest

Jan 08, 2009 3:56PM

i saw this all over tv during the holidays. i loved it. i didn't know it was sophia. of course. gorgeous. what is the song?

posted by guest

Jan 08, 2009 3:58PM

Bridgette Bardot "Moi je jouie"

posted by guest

Jan 08, 2009 4:02PM

from second one it reminded me of Marie Antoinette... i

posted by guest

Jan 08, 2009 4:07PM

how did you get the song? What is it called?

posted by guest

Jan 08, 2009 4:21PM

Ahh, i

posted by guest

Jan 08, 2009 4:25PM

I love it!!

posted by guest

Jan 08, 2009 4:44PM

number 6: totally. Marie Antoinette all the way

posted by sparksflyy

Jan 08, 2009 4:58PM

the song is Brigitte Bardot, "Moi je joue." it's on iTunes.

posted by guest

Jan 08, 2009 5:09PM

I've been seeing this commercial on for the longest and everytime I end up walking around for days singing "Moi je joue"! Colors are delicious. Especially love the balloons at the end because it reminds me of watching "Le ballon rouge" as a kid!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBS2TvWD2t8

posted by rockferry

Jan 08, 2009 5:28PM

What a lovely commercial. Makes me want to go back to Paris this instant and stop in at Ladurée for some macarons* in rose, lemon, and who knows what other flavors. My biggest wish, actually, is to have Ladurée macarons as favors at my one-day wedding, but alas, I think they are too expensive.

*What she's got are macarons, not the similarly spelled macaroons.

posted by Pretty Young Thing

Jan 08, 2009 6:25PM

Cutest commercial ever! I love it. And I love Maryna. It would make me want the fragrance if I didn't find the scent so atrocious.

posted by williamwallace

Jan 08, 2009 6:35PM

tavi from style rookie posted this like a month ago.

posted by guest

Jan 08, 2009 7:03PM

This is the single greatest piece of film in human history.

posted by guest

Jan 08, 2009 7:05PM

Yay! I'm actually going to Paris in just a little over 2 weeks.

Sigh. Time is going by so slowly.

posted by guest

Jan 08, 2009 7:42PM

HATE IT

posted by guest

Jan 08, 2009 7:48PM

Thanks guest 18, i too i'm not a fan!

posted by guest

Jan 08, 2009 9:24PM

i love it and i hate it. it makes me so happy and so depressed at the same time. i'm so conflicted! maybe if i watch it again it'll clear things up for me...

posted by guest

Jan 08, 2009 10:58PM

I like that it's not over-sexed like every other perfume and scent commercial out there, where the acting is over the top and the picture is "airbrushed," (I don't know what to call the technique they use in videos to make everything look so plastic and shiny).

It's lighthearted and young. It really makes me jealous, so I guess I must be having a bad day.

posted by guest

Jan 09, 2009 12:42AM

does anybody know where i can find the pale pink dress that maryna is wearing?

posted by guest

Jan 09, 2009 3:26AM

Guest #22: It's a Dior ad, so as for the dress, go figure....

As much as I hate to shatter the illusion for you guys, I'm from Paris and life is just like it is in any other major city: mostly hard work. Every Parisien that I know is miserable as it's simply a case of métro-boulot-dodo (or subway-work-sleep, as the old poem goes). It's just that when we're not preoccupied with those things, we have better food and scenery than you!

*hehe* ^^

posted by guest

Jan 09, 2009 8:36AM

About the "scenary" I agree with you...but about the food, well...Italian food is better!!! :) But I follow your speech, you're right, we all tend to idealize places far from our realities and portraited by tons of movies and novels as "wonderful, unbelievable, amazing, dazing and confusing" (ihih). But reality often is different. I'm also used to "shatter the illusion" of people on web who celebrate Italy and the italian style in adorating ways...the "italian mith" is just so overrated...
BYE y all
S.

posted by Shanna

Jan 09, 2009 10:59AM

Even though I lived in Paris for 8 months last year (studying abroad), and do not intend on going back anytime soon, I can still appreciate the lightheartedness and frivolity of this commercial. Paris is not the dream fairy-tale city most people make out it to be, but this commercial sure makes it look that way!

But Maryna does NOT look like your typical French girl in this ad because:
-French girls do not smile and skip down the street. They scowl and smoke cigarettes.
-They do not gorge on pastries. How do you think they stay so skinny?
-A girl who can afford gowns from Dior would NOT be riding a bike around the city. She would have a chauffer or drive her own car. (Or at least a scooter.)

posted by guest

Jan 09, 2009 11:41AM

as #21 mentioned this commercial is so beatiful because it does not look at all like, let´s say gisselle for d&g (so tacky). don´t you think that it is kind of ironic that they have such a beatiful piece of advertising for such a bad smelling perfume?

guests #24 and #25 lighten up please!! if you don´t like the idea of paris think of the place you find most charming and beatiful in the world. of course it never is the place where you live in. to me paris was just everything i saw here

posted by guest

Jan 09, 2009 8:50PM

I cannot stand racist, homophobic Brigitte Bardot. Otherwise, the commercial is cute.

posted by guest

Jan 10, 2009 9:51AM

This is why I love London. Everyone knows what they are getting and are under no illusion as to what it's like. And yet it still rocks! xx