Cinderella in Dior

Campaign: Christian Dior FW 2007
Model: Jessica Stam
Photographer: Craig McDean
Scanned by: Original Sin

How interesting. Very much like the Prada FW 2007 collection, this campaign has begun to grow on me like some sort of a flesh-eating fungus. For someone who loathed the campaign initially and deemed it the worse disappointment of the FW 2007 season, this is quite a feat. Although, I am fairly suspicious that my sole preference for this image is somewhat linked to the Disney fanatic in me. My distorted, sugary mind immediately linked this image to those of Cinderella's (despite the irrefutable difference of hair and gown color) and somewhere in said fairy-tale loving mind of mine immediately went 'ZOMG SQUEEEEEE'

All 'squeeness' aside, this is one of the rare moments that the geometric salmon shade of the background actually enhances the sugary sweetness of the image (slightly offset by the position of Stam's hand against her waist) as opposed to wrecking it as a whole. However, the fact that the dress in question was one of my favorite on the runway only heightens my biased devotion towards this ad. Although I'm pretty sure that the Dior set is almost completed, I would still love to see some softer shades of cerulean as I find that the softer the the background (which also indicates a softer shade of lipstick on Stam's behalf), the more the outfit in the ad tends to stand out.

Although, to be fairly honest I don't think Stam can pull off blue lipstick