Vanessa Paradis—Johnny Depp’s girl—is all about Chanel’s new lipstick line, Rouge Coco.
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She was once a birdlike Lolita, whistling in a golden cage for the Chanel fragrance Coco. Now, 18 years later, Vanessa Paradis is still warbling for the venerable house. This spring, it’s for Rouge Coco, the new lipstick line. “The eyes are the mirror of the soul,” Coco Chanel once said. “So, are the lips the mirror of the heart?” This year, the House of Chanel is taking its founder at her word.
“I have a blank space between my teeth, but that’s the only blank thing about me,” says Paradis, laughing. “You can hide things in your eyes, but your mouth never lies!” She is visibly happy to be playing the pretty Chanel songbird once again. “There is a certain feeling about Chanel,” she says. “You feel it as soon as you cross the threshold of the store in the rue Cambon in Paris. Something magical happens.... Working for Chanel allowed me to meet Karl Lagerfeld. I have enormous respect for him, partly because he shows so much respect for other people.”
During the ad campaign’s photo ses sion, the actress in Paradis takes over. She has a very physical relationship with the camera; just ask Pascal Chaumeil, director of Heartbreaker, her upcoming film. “Apart from being very photogenic, Vanessa is, first and foremost, very physical,” he says. “She moves well. The way she walks is absolutely original: She has strength and fragility at the same time. Very few actors have that instinctive power. And, like all great actors, she possesses an animalistic sense of unease—moments of doubt despite her immense fame.”
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