Raquel Zimmermann Accidentally Wears YSL Belt In Chloe Ad (PHOTO, VIDEO)

Chloé may have made the ultimate fashion flub, cladding model Raquel Zimmermann in a YSL belt in its latest ad campaign for its Love, Chloé perfume, WWD reports. While the print advertisement has been floating around for a few months, it wasn't until passersby got a glimpse at a blown-up billboard version (where? that part isn't mentioned...) that the mistake was caught.

If you want to point fingers, WWD writes, "The scent was launched by Coty Prestige in August, with print ads shot by Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. Ezra Petronio was creative director for the fragrance." But, to be fair, as The Cut points out, the belt does look like something out of Chloé Fall 2010. Are we sure it's not?

Here's what we believe is the ad (and belt) in question:

And some bonus material...the TV ad.

WATCH:

And the equally-kitschy making of the TV ad:

Comments

[baomike]

11:19 PM on 10/17/2010

Copy must be getting hard to come by.

[henrypapillon]

10:47 PM on 10/17/2010

How Gauche'!

[unruly1]

10:41 AM on 10/16/2010

The faux pas!! Almost as bad as when I wore Jordache jeans with an Izod polo... and clogs. Oh so gay.

[binkis1]

05:38 PM on 10/16/2010

This is the stylists fault...

[KruglerHerrig]

12:33 AM on 10/16/2010

Yet another commercial disguised as a story. Oh yeah, gonna go right out and buy me some Chloe.

[thequeerofallmedia]

10:40 PM on 10/15/2010

Raquel exudes Class!! She is the update version of Marisa Berenson..

[Tom Joad]

10:13 PM on 10/15/2010

...I was going to guess the model had a penis...

[henrypapillon]

10:48 PM on 10/17/2010

A black and white one, at that! AHhahahahaha!

[ghee99]

09:26 PM on 10/15/2010

oh no!

what a scandal !

thanks THP for breaking this important news story

(really, it shocks me that THIS is the sort of thing the elites focus on, as Rome burns all around them)

[cvkathy]

07:16 PM on 10/15/2010

I'm so clueless ~ I don't even get this. Is it for club members only? Along with a secret hand-shake? I guess I don't want to belong.....

[skip skip skipping]

06:23 PM on 10/15/2010

evidence here: http://skipping.tumblr.com/post/1322881152

[BlueMrsKitty]

03:25 PM on 10/15/2010

GASP!

[probo]

07:53 AM on 10/15/2010

ok, now my day is ruined.

[thecoffeegod]

01:15 PM on 10/15/2010

ROFLMAO!

[GrownupStewie]

06:48 AM on 10/15/2010

people are bitching over a belt? a smell belt at that? a belt that is so unimportant in the picture? heck it makes me like chloe more for not being so one sided...

[henrypapillon]

10:49 PM on 10/17/2010

I knew it was a belt, but how did you know from the picture that it was a smell belt? Your sense of smell must be really good. Fanned.

[Thomas Elders]

04:44 AM on 10/15/2010

um.... it's not uncommon for fashion brands to use other companies products in their ads. It's called styling you idiot.

[henrypapillon]

10:50 PM on 10/17/2010

Is there a comma in that, after styling?

[Biochemist she]

01:13 AM on 10/15/2010

The fact that Raquel Zimmerman is fully clothed, for starters

Hanna McGibbon has a weird vision for Chloe; that is to say, Pheobe Philo, she is not.

It's boring and derivative, and that *actual* YSL belt isn't the only thing that makes me thin of his Rive Gauche label from decades gone by.

Waiting for this to be flagged by the usual click of l0 s ers.

[nomadsborker]

07:19 AM on 10/15/2010

You obviously take the fashion industry seriously. Very few do. I guess shallowness still has a place to call home though.

[Biochemist she]

10:14 AM on 10/15/2010

You obvisouly take the lives of g@y people very seriously, despite the fact that they have absolutely zero impact on you.

Very few do.

I guess self-l 0 athing and fixation have a place to call home, though.

[LaurieAnn]

10:35 AM on 10/15/2010

Many women with intelligence and established careers of their own follow fashion. It is not a sign of shallowness.

[nomadsborker]

07:20 AM on 10/15/2010

Sorry, forgot. "Dear"

[Paul The Octopus]

11:49 PM on 10/14/2010

Huh?