Perhaps it goes without saying, but we will: Winter in Paris is magical. Snow blankets the cobbled streets and Gothic architecture in a white veil. As if that wasn’t charming enough, the whole city literally twinkles with fairy lights. So it’s no wonder Chanel chose it to be the setting of a new N°5 campaign, with a muse almost as iconic as the fragrance itself: Marion Cotillard. “Returning to a French actress meant returning to a subconscious image of French femininity dear to the spirit of the house,” says Thomas du Pré de Saint Maur, Chanel’s head of global creative resources.
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