Last November, a Victoria's Secret ad campaign featuring the tag line "The Perfect Body" over a lineup of models fomented a firestorm: close to 30,000 people, mostly women, protested it as promoting unhealthy body image.
It was staged at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris's Saint Germain district, not far from where Rykiel's fashion business began with her 1960s Rue de Grenelle boutique, and opened with a lineup of models whose initialled sweaters spelled out "Rykiel Forever".
And Victoria's Secret ignited swift condemnation last year for an ad that featured a lineup of skinny models with "perfect" bodies.
Willy Chavarria, a queer Latino who used to design for Ralph Lauren, cast a diverse lineup of models and dressed them in pieces featuring statements "hate is fed" and "it is a luxury".
Unlike Samsung, HTC focuses only on smartphones (and, increasingly, a streamlined lineup of models).
The people in the ads must represent the diversity of the population of New York, and if they don't, he says he will call up the advertiser and ask them to submit an ad with a more diverse lineup of models.
On one side, a multi-ethnic lineup of models bury their faces in their hands and complain of what a "nightmare" it was to complete the money order, how it got lost or delayed.
It's worth noting too this was probably Paris's most diverse lineup of models, and the clothes are relatively affordable for designer fashion.
Although more are on the way, the only small car in its vast lineup of models to compete with the likes of the Honda Fit and the Toyota Yaris is the Chevrolet Aveo, a car made in Korea by G.M.'s Daewoo subsidiary.
In mid-September, as the scandal broke, VW was already offering consumers average discounts of about $3,720 on its aging lineup of models, according to car price information company Kelley Blue Book, which had not yet tallied October discounts.
Mr. Bez drove the CC100 around the track on a parade lap, followed by Sir Stirling Moss in the classic '59 DBR1 – a 24-Hours of Le Mans winner – and a lineup of DB5s, One-77 limited edition models and other special Aston Martin cars.
