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- <text id=92TT0684>
- <title>
- Mar. 30, 1992: Business Notes:Advertising
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Mar. 30, 1992 Country's Big Boom
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 51
- Business Notes
- ADVERTISING
- The Changing Face of Chic
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Claudia Schiffer wasn't even a contender. Neither were other
- supermodels. They were...well, too glamorous, too
- intimidating for Oscar de la Renta's new perfume Volupte. Though
- Polish-born Derota Puzio, the model chosen by the designer, will
- surely turn heads, she looks like a regular person.
- </p>
- <p> "We wanted to use a girl any woman could relate to," says
- de la Renta. "She is not a great beauty. But she feels
- confident, and is comfortable with who she is. She could be any
- woman." In television commercials for the exotic fragrance
- debuting next month and in magazine ads in the fall, the
- adventurous Puzio will be shown on a solo vacation in India. And
- while the use of a "nonmodel" to promote a high-fashion scent
- may be unusual, Volupte isn't likely to turn up in your local
- bargain basement. A 1-oz. sculptured crystal flacon retails for
- $300.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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