Bond girl Olga Kurylenko forgoes Martini to become the new face of Campari

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As a Bond girl she's used to the portraying the glamorous vixen in a world of Martini swiggers and the perfectly coiffed.

So it's perhaps no surprise that Olga Kurylenko has been chosen as the new face of the famously sophisticated drink Campari.
The 29-year-old Ukranian actress is the brand's latest calendar girl following in the glamorous footsteps of actresses Jessica Alba, Salma Hayek and Eva Mendes to name a few.



Olga, who will take over in 2010 from this year's Campari Girl Jessica Alba, shot the Italian brand's 11th calendar, dubbed Campari Milano, in a stunning shoot in Milan.
She may have seemed an unlikely choice after the better-known celebrities who have fronted the campaign, but her supermodel looks fit well with the brand's sophisticated image.
And she graces the calendar’s 12 months in ultra glamorous fashion.
'Olga was a natural choice,' said Campari CEO Bob Kunze-Concewitz. '[She has] great charm, grace, elegance and sensuality that represents the perfect incarnation of the Campari brand.'



In the retro-themed shoot Olga, who came to some international fame as the character ‘Camille’ in the most recent James Bond film Quantum of Solace, poses confidently with a bottle of the famous red alcohol in her hands.


She is simultaneously gawped at by fellow models while standing in a luxurious old train carriage.
In another, just like Jessica Alba's campaign, she looks airbrushed within an inch of her life - almost looking like a computer CGI model - as she wears a black leather top and black trousers in a bar with four chiseled male models.

'It was a truly unique experience. I was delighted and intrigued by Campari’s proposal: to play the Campari woman and interpret the essence of Red Passion,' added the actress.
In keeping with its experimental approach to the arts, Campari chose the young up-and-coming Italian photographer Simone Nervi to immortalize Kurylenko.



'I'll have mine shaken, not stirred': Bond girl Olga Kurylenko takes over from Jessica Alba as new face of Campari | Mail Online

[mysticlady]

I think she is gorgeous.

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Campari has the hottest calendars.

Campari Calendar 2009 - Jessica Alba



Campari Calendar 2008 - Eva Mendez




Campari Calendar 2007 - Salma Hayek

[Novice]

You forgot Lorriane Chase...


Jessica Alba is not beautiful, even with photoshop.

[Beeyotch]

Really? I hate Alba because she seems like a bitch who thinks her shit don't stink but I do think she's beautiful. In fact, she should stick to modeling because she sure as hell can't act.

My favorite of the campaigns up there was Salma, she has some intense smoldering that really comes across in pictures.

[Novice]

JMO - but yeah, I really don't think that she's all that to look at... and this photo doesn't even look like her...




Eva Mendes? Salma? stunning... Alba? Bleurgh & so is her kid.

[Bellatheball]

`Too much airbrushing. That girl is gorgeous but they've managed to make her look like every other Hollywood brunette.

[celeb_2006]

Jessica alba.

nuff said for that campaign

[arie_skop]

I dont like these pictures, too much airbrushing.

[stef]

i hate salma but i have to say that she looks best in these shots.
she entirely represents what the brand/campaign is about.
alba and the bond girl on the contrary don't fit, but that's just my opinion.

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[Perilita]

there is so much Photoshop on them, they look like they`re drawn! and why?? olga doesnt need it, she is gorgeous

[PrettyGirl]

Salma Hayek is gorgeous. I adore her.

These photographers who shoot for this calendar know women, their essense, appeal, their bodies, etc...they've taken some amazing shots of all these women. Extraordinary photography.

[Novice]

Shame its ruined by too much photoshop.



And this isn't a patch on the pirelli calendar

[RevellingInSane]

Olga's pics are so photoshopped she looks like a CGI creation placed into a "natural" background.