Louis Vuitton has been in the habit over the last several years of producing beautiful, cinematic print ads with idiosyncratic subjects; it’s rare to see a company trust their readers quite this much. Here are the ads, and two points for guessing the subjects without reading the descriptions:
Did you guess? It’s Mikhail Gorbachev, former Soviet Premier and legendary birthmark-haver. Very well respected internationally for opening up the restrictive USSR.
I’ll be honest, at first I didn’t recognize this one, even though I’m a huge film buff. First thoughts: “Okay, French, definitely…somewhat older…uh…” It’s Catherine Deneuve! The daring and gorgeous star of provocateur Luis Bunuel’s Belle du Jour, a seminal work (puns!).
Uh, creepy much? Here we have revered filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, author and director of the Godfather trilogy, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, and, uh, the Robin Williams vehicle Jack. At his feet, warmed and enlightened by his very bare-chested presence, is his daughter Sofia. Sofia has a mixed track record as a writer-director (in the opinion of this blog) hitting it out of the park with the little-understood and less-loved Marie Antoinette, but submitting less accomplished efforts with The Virgin Suicides (one of my favorite books ever) and Lost In Translation (Everybody loves Bill, but, I mean, c’mon).
That’s the Jazz, one of their top sellers. They’re made by a Norwegian company called Ekornes, and they come in a bunch of different sizes. Get rid of your old piece of crap, and roll easy in a Stressless for free. Don’t say we never gave you nothin’. 
