Red Sunset
Posted by The MILF
June 08, 2009
When even Karl Lagerfeld makes a completely unsubtle market-whore move that proves the opposite of prescient, you know you’re living in roller-coaster times. For Chanel’s latest Paris-Russia collection ad campaign, the Kaiser dressed up the Moscow-born goddess Sasha Pivovarova in a bounty of hyper-explicit Czarist booty. No doubt, when the shoot was planned last fall, Lagerfeld, like everybody else, was counting on the oligarchs to remain conspicuous-consumption maniacs. Alas, even those gilt-laden lads and their mistresses have cut back and the privately held Chanel was forced to lay off 200 staffers earlier this year.
