The House Of Dior Wants Us All To Smell Like Johnny Depp
Well, this is nothing short of an act of aggression. From an olfactory perspective, Johnny Depp conjures up the struggle-fumes of lost court cases, vintage pellets of parrot excrement and the gang bang snout assault of a billion rapidly multiplying microbes incubating in the sweat-soaked folds of his mummified scarf installation. But even though he lost his libel case against The Sun, which caused Warner Bros. to force him to drop out of the Fantastic Beasts movies, he’s still got a job with Dior.
Page Six offers the following details:
Dior isn’t backing down on Johnny Depp.
The “Pirates of the Caribbean” star has long been the face of the brand’s aptly named Sauvage cologne — and it looks like it’s going to stay that way, according to a report.
This week, an ad for the fragrance featuring Depp playing a guitar appeared on British TV during “The Great British Bake Off” — despite a judge in the United Kingdom concluding that he regularly beat ex-wife Amber Heard as he lost a libel case against a British newspaper earlier this month.
British PR expert Mark Bokowski told the paper he supported Dior dropping Depp, but understands why they didn’t.
“I think it would be sensible for Dior to sever links with Depp,” Bokowski said. “Anything can be stopped by pressing a button if they really wanted to.”
Johnny, 57, whose 4-year relationship, including 14 months of marriage, to 34-year-old Amber Heard was embroiled in no end of impassioned drama and allegations of abuse from both sides, wasn’t quite as fortunate as far as his other work commitment, losing his Fantastic Beasts role to Mads Mikkelsen.
A search of Dior’s Instagram yielded pics of the Sauvage campaign with only a bottle of the magical potion, and they are curiously devoid of Depp despite their insistence on keeping him on board as its face:
Dior’s website, in a seeming 180, sports Johnny’s image in what appears to be defiance of expectations, considering the court decision. They’re even using the image that previously sparked controversy for its Native American theme. My best guess is that they expect their social media feeds to fuel more outrage, and therefore are keeping those pages free of ammunition. Basically, a banquet of mixed messages from the design house that wants us all to douse ourselves in fetid base notes of indeterminate poop from the Depp-Heard marital bed.
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