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* Yves Saint Laurent's spring look is Interpretation, created by Tom Ford. The look embodies a strong, confident woman unfettered by excess, as seeA Lange & Sohne Fake Watchesn in monochrome palettes with several shades of a single hue. Hue intensity can be changed according to a woman's mood or desires.

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Byline: Frank O'Donnell

PERFUME giant Yves Saint Laurent was last night accused of having a "sense of humour failure" after it threatened legal action over a spoof of its famous Sophie Dahl Opium advertisement.

The original advert, which was banned in the UK after attracting an unprecedented number of complaints, has been parodied in a promotion for Newcastle Brown Ale.

Brewers Scottish Courage have replaced the supermodel, who was wearing nothing but jewellery, stilettos and a suggestive pose in the YSL verReplica Chanel handbagssion, with a Brown Ale drinker in boilersuit and battered working boots.

A bottle of Newcastle Brown, the UK's biggest selling bottled ale, sits in place of the Opium perfume.

The brewers have added the cheeky slogan "Brown is the new Brown", sending up "fashionistas" who constantly claim a new colour is in vogue.

But YSL, part of the Italian luxury goods maker Gucci Group NV, has written to the brewers asking them to withdraw the poster.

The letter also highlights the possibility of a legal injunction to get the posters removed, according to sources.

The mock poster, which has been pasted all over the north of England this week, is part of a series of "anti-fashion" adverts striking unlikely poses from the world of fashion and glamour.

The campaign supports the launch of two new packaging formats for the brand, which is now available on draught for the first time outside its Newcastle heartland, as well as in a new, smaller 330ml bottle.

It is understood the company is planning to follow up the Sophie spoof with a Brown Ale drinker sitting on a chair in the style of Christine Keeler.

Scottish Courage confirmed that they had received an angry letter from YSL asking them to withdraw the promotion.

However the firm has refused to withdraw its ad and accused YSL of failing to see the ad's humour.

Sanjay Patel, Newcastle Brown Ale brand manager, said: "Brown Ale is an anti-fashion brand that doesn't try to take itself too seriously. It's a brand that can have a bit of fun and that's what we are trying to get across in the advertising.

"It's not as if we are degrading it [the original ad]. We are just having a bit of fun.

"Personally I think the Opium Sophie Dahl ad is a tremendous one. After all, imitation is the highest form of flattery.

"We have asked YSL to clarify their objection to the ad and we are currently awaiting their response.

"We can confirm that the ad is one of a series of four executions which parody well-known photographic poses, so we are surprised that it has provoked this kind of reaction.

"The history of advertising is littered with ads which send up other ads and I can only think that someone at YSL has had a severe sense of humour failure."

The attempt to ban the Brown Ale ad is ironic given that the original naked Sophie Dahl version was itself pulled after the Advertising Standards Authority ruled Replica Yves Saint Laurent shoes it was "degrading" to women.

The Opium advert - showing Dahl, 23, naked on her back with her legs apart - was the most objected to advert in five years after more than 900 complaints were received from the public.

At the time, Christopher Graham, ASA director general, said the poster was sexually suggestive and likely to cause "serious or widespread offence", thereby breaking the British Codes of Advertising and Sales Promotion.

Parody advertising has been growing in popularity ever since Carling Black Label sent up the Levi Strauss launderette advert in the 1980s and followed it up with a classic take on the Old Spice surfer.

The Dyslexia Society has a new campaign parodying the controversial fcuk campaign for French Connection.

Advertising Standards Authority regulations dictate that no advert should so closely resemble another that it misleads and causes confusion for the public.

The rules also forbid the misuse of another organisation's goodwill as regards its brand or advertising.

Similar clauses regarding television and cinema work have seen various ad spoofs, targeted at rival brands, snuffed out before they ever reached the airwaves.

An advert for Pils which parodied the Guinness surfer ad with a group of unshapely lads paddling lilos around Southend harbour never made it on to cinema screens.

Newcastle Brown is the UK's biggest selling premium bottled ale with sales approaching 100,000,000 bottles every year worldwide.

A spokeswoman for YSL said the company had no comment to make.

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"Well, like Humphrey Bogart says, we'll always have Paris."

JEAN-LUC GODARD, Interview, July 1994

"I wake up and immediately begin my toilette. If I thought about work, the anxiety would begin. It shouldn't be thought about at all. Then one could stay in bed for days thinking, never working. I just go. It's very difficult and I have tried to take my work, at times, less heavy. That's impossible. I give myself too much to do, too much responsibility. After my metier, there's not much left for my personal life. But I accept my responsibility with dignity. It's a duty to others as well as to myself. There are so many people who depend on me."

YVES SAINT LAURENT, Interview, October 1980

"As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead. But if you want to live, and live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously. And one thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you."

JEANNE MOREAU, Interview, September 1996

"My evolution began in those days in the late '60s and early '70s. The whole world changed and so did we. I loved the change when customs, styles of dress, habits were being questioned and turned upside down."

YVES SAINT LAURENT, Interview, October 1980

"One day I just left and came to Paris with nothing other than the clothes I was wearing. I wanted nothing more than to work in the fashion world. I knew no one, and I sU-Boat Watch Replicaimply went around ringing door bells."

THIERRY MUGLER, Interview, February 1979

"[Star quality] is something else. Something that just happens on screen. Charisma, perhaps, I mean. I know too many talented people who don't make it--you know, really make it on screen as movie stars--so I know that it's not the talent that the people like. It's something else. I don't mean it's something more, but it's something else. For a woman, especially, it has to do with a certain relationship with the camera and the lights and the way they reflect on your skin. Some beautiful faces also get completely distorted when they start speaking. It's true and it's very unfair."

CATHERINE DENEUVE, Interview, March 1987

"I'm not aiming to develop an American-style society in France. I'm trying to apply the best lessons of a very highly developed knowledge in certain high-tech sectors: of availability; of swiftness in execution; of mobility in thought and action that set the pace in this country and confer on it a rapidity we could rightly envy. No, we have to see our country as it really is; it has its virtues, it has advantages. In any case, you can see in our country, in many, many towns and cities, not just in Paris, an extremely strong upsurge of intelligence, of energies--among those who are conceiving and others who are doing, and often they are the same. We have to shorten the routes and go directly from basic research to applied research to industrial research and then to business itself."

PRESIDENT FRANCOIS MITTERRAND, Interview, August 1984

"I arrived in Paris at the end of the '50s. I came from Tunisia but I didn't feel that I was in a different country. I had been raised by my grandmother without religion. And I felt really at home in France for that reason. Anyway, I would have felt at home because I can adapt myself anywhere. I had come because a woman from Dior invited me to come to Paris."

AZZEDINE ALAIA, Interview, October 1990

"[Francois] Truffaut likes very straight faces on the screen. He's got a kind of trademark, otherwise he wouldn't be Truffaut. He loves to look at actors and particularly actresses in a very voyeuristic way. He loves to let them do something before he says anything. I think he thinks that to be an actress is a very scabrous thing. I think he loves a kind of nobleness of prostitution in actresses. That's why I say he's a voyeur, but it's not pejorative, at all. It's his way of being, as a director and as a man in front of actors and actresses. It's a kind of eroticism, in a way, but every director has his own way of being erotic on the set. But that makes you free to do something and suggest something else at the same time."

ISABELLE ADJANI, Interview, March 1976

"[After a show] is a feeling of emptiness. That usually comes when I'm in bed and not able to sleep. After the collection, it doesn't belong to me. After all, I have given my creativity, my dreams. It's an ephemeral emptiness, a very profound feeling which is not exactly disagreeable, just a bit depressing at times. If one writes, composes music, or paints, it is permanent. Finally, nothing remains. I agree if you say the clothes are there, they are worn. But what happens during the presentation is only a day at the end of enormous work."

YVES SAINT LAURENT, Interview, October 1980

"I don't think I look like a couturier. Look at me, balding, sauvage, I have a peasant's face. I think I could have been a much better farmer as I love the earth and would love Bvlgari Replicato have a big farm and raise animals, cows and rows of plantations. I also love architecture but it is very difficult to be free to do architecture in France. So I do couture. It is easy and fun, I can let my ideas soar, do anything I want and it works."

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Fearful that its name connotes a low point in the country's history, China has put a ban on the Yves Saint Laurent fragrance Opium, according to a story in the Los Angeles Times. The enforcement Rado Watchbegan in December after department store customers complained that the brand name was humiliating to Chinese citizens because it recalled the Opium Wars of the 19th Century, a period where widespread drug debilitation allowed the British Empire to gain control over China.

After an investigation the State Industry and Commerce Bureau revoked Opium's license in China, the most populated country and the fragrance's biggest potential market. Some belfull lace wigsieve the name could also cause "spiritual pollution" in Chinese youth, among whom illegal drugs have made somewhat of a comeback in the past two decades. Supporters of the ban say the brand name has made Chinese youth "uneasy" and "worried", but the real crime maybe the perfume's price: Chinese consumers were coughing up $120 for 100 ml. of Opium, more than the average monthly wage.

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Byline: SANDRA CHAPMAN

Like it or not fur (real and faux) is promising to be big this auReplica Jimmy Choo replica shoestumn and winter.

Perhaps it has something to do with last winter's particularly cold weather. Maybe women are getting fed up exposing their navels in the cold weather. Whatever, fur is back.

And there should be no difficulty finding the real thing, despite the anti-fur message put out so forthrightly a few years back by a gaggle of supermodels, one of whom was later found modelling a real fur.

The Europeans are not as fussy as we are about animal rights and some of the bigger names like Yves Saint Laurent are parading fur this year.

One can assume climate has something to do with it. Last year we had two long stretches of freezing cold weather late in the season and too many of us were caught out.

I resorted to a padded anorak (a garment better suited to gardening) and scarves to keep warm. So be prepared.

Many fashion houses are trimming suits and slim-line coats this year with fur; someone has even reported seeing a denim jacket and jeans trimmed in the stuff.

Has to be a home-made job!

Fur looks rich on tweeds which are also a big fashion story this incoming season.

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Byline: TRUDI WALLACE

IN SEPTEMBER we transformed four readers into their favourite cover girls.

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The results were so astounding that we decided to take the makeover challenge one step further.

Taking a cue from designer Yves Saint Laurent who recreated old master paintings for his new advertising campaign, we asked eight volunteers to become living works of art . . .

a forest glade in the studio.

Not surprisingly, green tents haven't set the catwalk alight recently, so we couldn't find anything remotely similar in the shops. Eventually, we settled for an unglamorous green velour dressing gown and teamed it with a white cotton nightdress. The piece de resistance was a pair of sheer tights we uncovered in John Lewis and flat pumps from Ravel.

KELLY had already solved one of our problems - the waist-length Titian hair was her own. But we still had to find a Pre-Raphaelite flowing robe, a long-sleeved chemise, green tights, and enough foliage to recreate

Our next problem was how to create a mini forest. Hiring foliage isn't as difficult as you would imag-

Look like an oil Strouds of London has been providing greenery for theatre, TV and films for more than 100 years. They assured me they could get me a jungle - I settled for eight, 8ft oak branches. While we wired the branches into place, hairdresser Nigel Barnes plaited the front sections of Kelly's hair to recreate the 'crinkled' effect on the painting.

Makeup artist Carl Stanley began by creating a pale, matt base to give a two-dimensional effect. Around the eyes, he used the new range of reds from Lancome, including a red mascara, to create a dreamy look.

He painted on the theatrical lips with a deep red lipstick.

After Nigel brushed out the plaits and caught the hair at the nape of the neck, Kelly was ready to get into her outfit - and homemade tree. All she needed was a book and a fake silk flower.

Photographer Mark Lawrence adjusted the lighting and was ready to shoot. A second later, Rossetti's Daydream had become a reality.

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THE Card-Sharp with the Ace of Spades by Georges de la Tour, starring Karren Winchester, 36, from Whitstable, Kent, Joe Bromley, 28, from Kensington, West London, Nick Daman, 25, from Highgate, North London, and Giles Addison 27, from Dollis Hill, North West London.

THE setting was easy to recreate - a table and four boxes, all sitting on one black serge drape and then covered in another.

For the gold, we used Christmas coins, a glass, and the wicker-covered bottle we made using a bottle of Lambrusco Rose, string dyed in tea to make it look old and double-sided sticky tape.

The costumes weren't quite so easy - there was so much detail.

Luckily, Replica Yves Saint LaurentAngels, a London costume hire company, lent us a doublet and satin tunic for Nick, a buff coat and shirt for Giles, a 17th-century dress for Karren, two hats and two long skirts we were hoping to sweet talk the boys into (we couldn't find trousers in the right colours).

They all needed a bit of work black tassels and a sash added to the buff coat, bronze ribbon to the doublet, pearls and feathers sewn onto the hats, and the turban created from orange lining fabric.

When it was all put together, the similarity was stunning.

Nigel covered Nick's short straight hair with a curly pageboy wig, and straightened Giles' curly hair, pinning it under at the back to give the illusion of a bob, while Carl started work on the makeup.

We had warned the girls that the shoot wouldn't be glamorous, but they laughed nervously when Carl told them he was going to make their faces look egg-like.

He blanked out their features, including their eyebrows, with a matt foundation. He applied a matt white shadow to flatten the eye area and used a white mascara to block out the eyelashes.

He then shaded down the sides of the noses with blusher, painted on rosebud lips in matt caramel lipstick, and used blusher to give Karren help with her cleavage.

All that was left now was for Nigel to create Joe's turban and Karren's straight brown hair, which he did using the fake ponytail.

With the boys swishing around in their skirts, they made their way to their makeshift card table and, after studying the original picture, assumed their positions perfectly.

Five hours to recreate, 15 minutes to capture on film. Professionals to the core - despite the eggheads!

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A CONTROVERSIAL poster featuring a naked Sophie Dahl accounted for one in three complaints about billboard advertising last year, according to figures released today.

Nearly a 1,000 peoClip in hair extensionsple objected to the advert for Yves Saint Laurent Opium in which the model writhed on a bed wearing only a pair of high heels.

The poster was the most complained about advert in the past five years, according to the Advertising Standard Authority's annual report.

The ASA ordered that the posters be withdrawn because they were offensive and degrading to women.

The authority received 12,262 complaints last year. Of 2,696 complaints about billboard advertising, 948 related to the Opium poster.

The sU-Boat Watch Replicaecond most complained about advert was for gas supplier Npower, which featured a ginger-haired family accompanied by the words 'There are some things in life you can't choose'.

The ASA received 219 complaints from people who believed the advert was offensive to redheads, but the authority ruled they were not justified.

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