It seems that Burberry’s “just us blokes” creative director Christopher Bailey was as impressed with Anton Corbijn’s Ian Curtis biopic Control as we were.
He’s hired Sam Riley, who played the Joy Division frontman, to star in Burberry’s new Fall/Winter 2008-09 ad campaign shot by Mario Testino — in black-and-white like the movie. Even better, Curtis’ co-star in the ads in the Kemptress-worthy model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, who’s said to be distantly related to the Queen of England.
She may well be with a double-barreled name like that, but we’re going to have to inspect her Royal Warrant.
—J.P.S.
