This dress design was featured in Chanel No. 5 The Film, a landmark long-form advertisement for the famed fragrance, directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Nicole Kidman, who had recently starred in Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge. The commercial, which was both the longest (the uncut original has a three-minute run time) and most expensive (with a $42 million budget) advertisement created up until then, has become iconic of the era and future fashion houses soon followed suit with their own mini-movies. An example of this dress design appears at the end of the commercial, when Kidman, playing the role of a starlet trying to escape the spotlight, walks a red carpet full of adoring fans, all the while looking off dreamily into the distance at a scrappy, handsome artiste-type young man she'd rather be with.
Pavel Zoubok
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