Chinese Actress Zhang Ziyi was signed up by Omega for their advertising campaign for 2009, alongside with Nicole Kidman, Georgy Clooney and Michael Phelps. It didn't take many weeks after when private beach photos of Zhang Ziyi appeared all over the Internet drawing a lot of attention.
In my opinion, the photos weren't really not much to write home about, nor to upload online for that matter. There's public nude beaches all over Scandinavia and many other European Regions, where these things take place all the time.
It seems that Kevin Rollenhagen, a top executive for Swatch Group's China operations takes the "incident" calm as well.
Mr. Rollenhagen points out to a similar incident which took place years ago with the Omega brand. Not long after signing American supermodel Cindy Crawford to represent the brand, she appeared on the cover of Playboy. While awkward at the time, it “never really made any long-term impact,” Mr. Rollenhagen states.
“Now are Chinese superstars held to a higher standard than Western ones? Maybe, but there’s no sign that this incident was inappropriate,” he said. “She’s a beautiful woman, on vacation with her boyfriend on a private beach. And some photographer climbed over a fence and took some photos that shouldn’t have been taken.”
You can read more about it here.
I don't know what else to say but any publicity is good publicity.
She is always gorgeous and looks younger than her age :)
Posted by: Sexy Female Models | 01/30/2009 at 04:12 PM
Wow, here face has lovely curves.
Posted by: Sexy Stephanie | 02/25/2009 at 12:48 PM