As Gisele Bunchen paddled into the surf with a black Chanel surfboard underneath her in the most recent Chanel N˚5 campaign by Baz Luhrmann, all that we could think was that’s “The one that I want”. With this magnificent campaign in mind I recently put pen to paper to create an illustration for Chanel featuring their model muse as the girl that’s just left the ocean, relaxed and salty haired. For the world’s most iconic fragrance to stand the test of time, only a creative genius like Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel could create such magic in a bottle and as Coco herself once said .. “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different”
