Blake Lively’s Look Is Too Low-Rent For Chanel?

In news that will surprise no one who knows of the irrational hatred fashion people have against the innocent breasts of Blake Lively, it’s reported some people at Chanel US are unhappy with the choice of the actress as ‘face of the brand.’ She wasn’t so much hired as the ‘face,’ but as the ‘hair and left arm’ of Chanel, in the weirdly-composed advert that went to lengths to cover the assets they’d paid for. In any case, her arm and hair aren’t good enough for fashion purists. According to NY Daily News, there have been ‘internal grumblings’ that Lively’s look is ‘off-brand.’ Moreover, their bellyaching is ‘the fashion industry’s clinical way of saying that Lively’s contemporary American beauty does not dovetail with Chanel USA’s efforts to sell its fashions as the height of European sophistication.’ I guess that’s why she’s showing the world’s sexist armpits, rather than being face-on with the product. If the brand thought she was so low-rent and unpolished, they shouldn’t have hired someone from a glorified tween television show; the same show that’s produced gems like Taylor Momsen.