It was only a matter of time before Lily-Rose Depp was announced as the “official” face for the iconic luxury brand so the news this week that the teenager is fronting the new Chanel No 5 L’Eau fragrance campaign comes as no surprise.
Chanel No.5 L’Eau is the latest reinvention of the world’s top selling perfume Chanel No 5, coupled with the teenage offspring of one of the worlds most famed and beautiful celebrity couples of the 21st century and you’ve got a millennial dream that Karl Lagerfeld knows only too well.
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Nobody really knows a girl like Lily-Rose Depp yet everyone knows who she is. The utterly enviable ‘super it’ tag she has inherited from being born to Hollywood Royalty, actor Johnny Depp and Parisian supermodel, singer and actress Vanessa Paradis puts her among the first of a rare breed of super celebrities who are marketable globally by default.
Lily-Rose Depp’s public coming of age Chanel style story first began last year when aged 15 she accompanied her mother Vanessa Paradis front-row at the Chanel Paris-Saltzberg show in New York. Following a cameo appearance on the Chanel Couture runway she was then cast in the global campaign for Chanel’s Pearl eyewear collection.
Lily-Rose Depp stars in her first Chanel campaign for the Pearl eyewear collection in September 2015 (Collage by Jeff Mars)
The No 5 campaign traditionally comes with a fashion film so Swedish pop video artist Johan Renck has been appointed the task of directing Lily-Rose for Chanel No 5 L’Eau the movie. The sixteen-year old follows her model mother Vanessa Paradis who stunned the world when she performed a bird song for her Chanel debut in the nineties.
Like Mother Like Daughter - See Vanessa Paradis in the iconic ad for Coco Chanel directed by Jean Paul Goude in 1991
Lily-Rose Depp made her acting debut in Tusk when she was just 14 years old, the same age as her Mother Vanessa when she became internationally famous after the success of pop hit “Joe le taxi” in 1987.
“Jou le taxi’ was number one for 11 weeks in France and made number three in the UK
Vanessa Paradis has been an ambassador for Chanel over two decades so it seems only natural that Lily-Rose now walks in her Mother’s footsteps. Taking her role as ambassador for Chanel seriously the young up and coming actress was dressed in Chanel Couture and Chanel AW16 for various appearances throughout the 69th Annual Cannes Film Festival having been there for the premier of “The Dancer” a film by Stephanie Di Giusto in which she currently stars and the first of three films she will appear in over the summer. “Yoga Hosers” directed by Kevin Smith sees her perform alongside Daddy Johnny Depp and “Planetarium” directed by Rebecca Ziotowski.
Chanel No 5 L’Eau will be available this coming autumn when the campaign starring Lily-Rose Depp is set to break.
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