I was watching Top Chef last night and I had the pleasure of viewing an iTunes ad that I have never seen before.  The ad features Coldplay and promotes their new album called Viva La Vida out on June 17th.  I instantly recognized Chris Martin’s voice, but what really did it for me was the visuals.  It was beautiful.  Graphically, it moved with the artists and illustrated the music but, most importantly, was still recognizable as an Apple product.  I could go on and on about how pretty it was but you should just see for yourself if you already haven’t.  And for your Coldplay fans, if you go to iTunes now, you can pre-order Viva La Vida now. 

A while back I posted about how I thought Keira Knightley was not the right person for the Coco Mademoiselle ads. “Though stunningly beautiful, I didn’t think Ms. Knightly embodied the class, elegance and style of Mlle. Chanel.” I meant to add that I thought Natalie Portman would have been a better choice. I just saw this photo of Ms. Portman wearing Chanel recently and it made me think of that again. Chanel announced a while back that Audrey Tautou would be the new face of Chanel No. 5 so I guess that’s out of the question for now. We’ll have to see, but my vote for the next face of a Chanel fragrance is N.P.

I’ve seen these LeSportsac ads for some time now and I finally had to come out and say how much I hate them. Not only are they not aesthetically pleasing, they are downright scary. It’s really upsetting to me because I am a long-time LeSportsac customer and a huge fan of their product but these ads make me want to throw it all way (ok, maybe I’m exaggerating just a tad). They have great collections, work with amazing guest designers and then they mess it all up with this invisible person ad campaign. Perhaps they thought it was a clever way of showing the product but here’s some free advice: Your product is wonderful, please let it speak for itself rather than using weird Photoshop techniques. I tore this ad out of the new Teen Vogue - a full page ad runs around $20,000 last time I checked so LeSportsac can chalk this ad up to a colossal waste of money since I don’t know anyone who would want to run out and buy a bag after seeing this: