Jump to full article: The Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday (uk), 2009-04-23
Author: Peter Allen
Intro: Famed for its cafe culture and Gauloises smoking inhabitants Paris has outlawed publicity images of Hollywood star Audrey Tautou playing style icon Coco Chanel - because she's shown smoking a cigarette.
In an extraordinary sign of the times, Paris' transport authority deemed the posters 'unhealthy and inappropriate'.
They show Tautou posing sensuously as the fashion legend responsible for a range of original breakthroughs including the little black dress, round-neck jackets and boucle jackets. . . .
Despite smoking up to 50 cigarettes a day throughout her life, Chanel was 87 when she died in 1971.
Almost all the original photographs of the designer and images from the film show a cigarette in her right hand.
Yet RATP, which runs the buses and trains in the French capital, considered historical accuracy secondary to good health.
'Cigarettes are banned on our entire transport system, and there is no reason why we should be giving them free advertising through this film poster,'
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Cigarettes are banned on our entire transport system, and there is no reason why we should be giving them free advertising through this film poster.
RATP (French transport) spokesman.
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