Sunday October 11, 2009
Celebrity watching
AS an official sponsor of the Venice Film Festival, Jaeger-LeCoultre was able to use the red carpet to showcase its timepieces with actors and actresses as its celebrity models.
Stars from all over the globe made appearances over the 11 days of the festival from Sept 2 to 12.
From Hollywood, came the likes of Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes and Wesley Snipes. Europe was represented by Tilda Swinton, Margaret Made, Maria Grazia-Cucinotta, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Manuela Velasco and others. And from the East, came Chinese actress Huang Lu and Indian actor Abhay Deol. Directors Oliver Stone and Antoine Fuqua were also present.
All wore JLC on their wrists. Mendes, for example, wore a Reverso Squadra Lady in pink gold while Grazia-Cucinotta dangled a Joaillerie 101 Manchette.
Another head-turner was JLC ambassador Diane Kruger who had two movies making the film festival circuit – Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds and Jaco Van Dormael’s Mr Nobody – showed up with a 101 Art Deco in Venice.
The manufacture presented the festival award winners with a personalised Reverso watch each as well as unique models to Colin Firth for Best Actor in A Single Man, the debut movie by fashion designer Tom Ford, Ksenia Rappoport for Best Actress in La doppia ora by Italian director Giuseppe Capotondi and Samuel Maoz whose movie Lebanon won the Golden Lion for best film.
All the watches bear a lacquered engraving of the lion, a symbol of Venice and a commemorative inscription.
Finally, Sylvester Stallone was honoured with the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award for his work as a director, screenwriter and actor at the festival’s closing ceremony.
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