Making Magic.

I remember this Chanel commercial from 1992 like it was yesterday. Clear as day, there's Vanessa Paradis swinging, free as a bird, in a golden cage:



And here is how they made it. If you understand French, perfect, if you don't? Even better. Let the language lull you into the lovely space of the visuals.



Wonderful, right?

Dirty? Why, No. Radioactive? Why, YES!

This model may have a clean face thanks to Dorothy Gray Salon Cold Cream, but she also has enough radioactive material on her skin to register on a geiger counter thanks to this commercial's brilliant directors.



Oh, dear! I don't think cold cream removes atomic bits.

When Polyester Was Magic.

This vintage Levi's ad from the '70s is a classic.



Tweeds, bells, flares, knickers! Magic polyester! Isn't it funny that acid tripping was once an acceptable advertising theme? Ah, the halcyon days that spawned a generation of spandex wearing hipsters (see below).