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Post by royalpauper on Mar 1, 2012 11:23:30 GMT -5
Can you imagine WC standing there next to these ladies dressed in some tight, shinny dress with an open back and high heels? ;D ;D ;D
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Post by hibou on Mar 1, 2012 13:00:59 GMT -5
So Charlotte is the new face of Gucci. Brilliant on their part. The perfect image for Gucci. Youthful, beautiful, athletic. Oh my Charlene!! Now what will you do? You've been upstaged again! JMO.
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Post by MyAdia on Mar 3, 2012 19:24:20 GMT -5
In their April edition, Vanity Fair has spotlighted Charlotte. Gorgeous photo of a real natural beauty!
That Touch of Grace
By Ingrid Sischy Photograph by Peter Lindbergh
It’s not much more than a dot on the French Riviera, but tiny Monaco sure gets its share of ink. As the principality’s latest and possibly most reluctant object of desire explains, “It’s not a question of size, of whether it’s a small or a big thing, but of what it has the power to incarnate.”
She should know. If your great-grandpa, an Olympic gold-medal-winning rower, was once heralded as the American male with the ideal bod, if your granny was Grace Kelly, and if your mom is Princess Caroline, you might have a long lens on you too. Merlin the magician couldn’t have come up with a more potent brew of blue and hot-red blood than the lineage 25-year-old Charlotte Casiraghi descends from, and that’s just the maternal side of the family. (Her father, Stefano Ca¬si¬ra¬ghi, an Italian businessman, died in a speedboat accident when Charlotte was four.)
Oh, and did I mention the looks? Let’s just say the genes came through, and Princess Grace’s irascible former director, Alfred Hitchcock, would have approved, though he might have asked her to go blond instead of keeping her natural chestnut.
Casiraghi, a dedicated equestrian and amateur show jumper, is about to take a different kind of leap, appearing in her first-ever advertisements as the face of Gucci’s history-minded Forever Now campaign, which swung into high gear last year in celebration of the house’s 90th anniversary. Casiraghi’s contribution is a four-part series, each to be shot by an iconic photographer, starting with Peter Lindbergh (who also took this photo), with the whole shebang overseen by Frida Gian¬ni¬ni, the company’s creative director. The plan is that each image will reference the equestrian fashion themes that are so integral to the history of the house—the bit, the green-red-green webbing, and so on—a perfect fit given Casiraghi’s passion for show jumping: “It’s one of the only sports that is completely equal between men and women,” she says.
This is no one-night stand. For starters, Gucci’s famous floral print was born as a headscarf for Princess Grace; more recently, Giannini has been designing Ca¬si¬ra¬ghi’s equestrian wardrobe, and the house sponsors her amateur show-jumping career. (She’s hoping to emulate Great-Grandpa at the Olympics someday.) The designer has her own equestrian history, too, which reinforces the sense of aptness that ripples through this collaboration. To this day Giannini takes every opportunity she can to ride her own horse, which is stabled in the Italian countryside, south of Rome. “I run to him,” she confesses. His name? Bientôt.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2012 3:00:44 GMT -5
Thanks myadia for this.
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Post by MyAdia on Mar 4, 2012 8:59:02 GMT -5
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Post by creativemind on Mar 5, 2012 0:02:19 GMT -5
color charlotte's hair blonde in that photo and imo it's one of the first times i can honestly say she favors princess grace. she even has the "look" in her eyes like her late grandmother. she's just beautiful.
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Post by paca on Mar 5, 2012 9:03:04 GMT -5
that's what I thought too. A little lighter skin too though fatal should take a good look at her and then remember that neither his mom, his sisters nor his nieces ever needed surgery to look the way they do/did. And then he needs to look at before and after pics of the sloth he calls wife...
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Post by royalpauper on Mar 5, 2012 11:48:32 GMT -5
that's what I thought too. A little lighter skin too though fatal should take a good look at her and then remember that neither his mom, his sisters nor his nieces ever needed surgery to look the way they do/did. And then he needs to look at before and after pics of the sloth he calls wife... Paca, I think Albert is mentally challenge as his wife. Otherwise how anyone could explain his behavior since the wedding. I think he is using some stuff as well. If he has any brain left he would have realized by now that this woman reflect badly on him. WC's role/job was to make Monaco and Albert look better, unfortunately after millions of dollars wasted on her and their fake wedding, he is the one who looks (and is talked about) like some kind of tyrant and wife abuser. Also, he looks so ridiculous when, after six years or taking her places and couching her, he still needs to tell her how to behave in public and when to smile. Ridiculous!!!
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Post by paca on Mar 5, 2012 16:37:25 GMT -5
LOL love the typho couching her...actually I think that's what she wishes he did so she could get closer to producing what she needs to secure her financials for all time judging by what is going on, he neither coaches nor couches her. He could use some major coaching himself though
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Post by axelle on Mar 6, 2012 7:39:19 GMT -5
Charlotte the new queen of Monaco! She will inherit the limelight too.
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Post by hibou on Mar 6, 2012 9:06:02 GMT -5
color charlotte's hair blonde in that photo and imo it's one of the first times i can honestly say she favors princess grace. she even has the "look" in her eyes like her late grandmother. she's just beautiful. My Vanity Fair arrived yesterday. I showed the photo to my husband and he said the resemblance to Grace was amazing, and he could care less about this stuff except that he grew up in Philadelphia.
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Post by royalpauper on Mar 6, 2012 13:11:36 GMT -5
LOL love the typho couching her...actually I think that's what she wishes he did so she could get closer to producing what she needs to secure her financials for all time judging by what is going on, he neither coaches nor couches her. He could use some major coaching himself though ;D ;D ;D
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Post by MyAdia on Mar 6, 2012 17:28:27 GMT -5
Here's one of the first photo from Gucci's Forever Now campaign featuring Charlotte.
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Post by emmeline on Mar 6, 2012 20:04:43 GMT -5
Two words: Gorgeous and Natural. Things that Princess Trashy lacks of.
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Post by MyAdia on Mar 7, 2012 7:25:43 GMT -5
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Post by MyAdia on Mar 7, 2012 7:28:26 GMT -5
Here's a New York Times article about Charlotte's two-year contract with Gucci. Gucci struck gold with Charlotte's as their spokesperson! and, they clearly know it.
A Right Royal GallopBy SUZY MENKES March 6, 2012
PARIS — The horse is called Carryduff. Its rider is Charlotte Casiraghi. And probably only her loyal steed does not know that she is a princess of Monaco.
After competing in the Gucci Masters competition in Paris, the young royal, who is passionate about show jumping, is lending her face to Gucci , which will have two of its steeds in the London Olympics this summer.
“It just seemed natural — they support me as a rider, and Frida and I collaborated together,” said the equestrian athlete, referring to Frida Giannini, the Gucci designer, who also has a passion for riding and cooled down from her Milan collection show last week by taking a ride.
The two horse lovers gathered in Paris on Tuesday with an Olympic gold medal hopeful, Edwina Alexander of Australia, and François-Henri Pinault, chief executive of PPR, Gucci’s parent company. They were unveiling Gucci’s new campaign, “Forever Now,” featuring Charlotte and her horse, shot by the photographer Peter Lindbergh.
Ms. Casiraghi, who pointed out that Gucci’s iconic red and green stripes were taken from the canvas girth strap of a horse’s saddle, is seen in the images wearing the house’s famous horse bit symbol as a belt.
For Gucci, this seems a natural look — back to its equestrian style of the early years, before Tom Ford made the image more urban and interior.
Ms. Giannini has designed a riding wardrobe for the royal, using the house heritage of stripes and crest — but created to modern technical standards.
“It’s consistent in terms of our image,” Mr. Pinault said, referring to the Olympics. “And our horse might run for a gold medal!”
A version of this article appeared in print on March 7, 2012, in The International Herald Tribune.
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Post by hibou on Mar 7, 2012 9:44:23 GMT -5
Gucci is returning to it's roots and classic designs it has been known for. Charlotte is a perfect fit to accomplish this goal. The photos are just exquisite and in a sense very retro, in the end they are just plain gorgeous! Charlene who?
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Post by royalpauper on Mar 7, 2012 10:32:38 GMT -5
Gucci is returning to it's roots and classic designs it has been known for. Charlotte is a perfect fit to accomplish this goal. The photos are just exquisite and in a sense very retro, in the end they are just plain gorgeous! Charlene who? I agree...Charlotte is truly exquisite in every sense of that word, inside and out. Looking at her I can't help but think "dam, some people are just given everything; beauty, brains, class, privileged life, title....", but yet you still root for her.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2012 11:06:23 GMT -5
She has real style.
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Post by margarita on Mar 15, 2012 10:56:48 GMT -5
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