another gucci ad

adero · 11-21-2007, 10:47 PM

guys, after seeing the previous gucci thread I remembered reading about this guy in switzerland back in february...
he manage to get him self in to a swiss fashion mag and having the magazine invoicing gucci!!!!
check this out; it is SOOO funny!!!
(published in Metro london edition 28/feb 07)

When it comes to barefaced cheek, a fraudster has managed to top the lot by fooling a major publisher.
The conman has managed to dupe the owners of Swiss newspaper into publishing a two-page advert he created of himself posing semi-naked beside a bottle of Gucci perfume.
The man, who claimed to represent the Italian fashion giant, called up the Swiss weekly Sonntags- Zeitung last week to book the expensive colour spread in Sunday's edition.

He even told the newspaper's advertising department to send the £25,000 b i l l for the spread to Gucci's head office in Italy.
'We've spoken to Gucci and apologised for the mistake,' a spokesman for the newspaper said last night.
Christoph Zimmer added: 'We're going to try to get the money back from this guy, but we don't rate our chances.' The Milan-based Gucci, owned by luxury goods group PPR SA, could not be reached for comment.
Zimmer explained that the newspaper fell for the scam because the call arrived too late for the advertising department to check whether it was genuine.
It is not the first time that the mysterious model – a d a r k , handsome man appearing to be in his late 20s – has tried to sneak into the limelight.
The man has previously attempted to book concert venues by passing himself off as Puerto Rican singer Chayanne, according to the Zurich-based daily Blick. He is now under investigation for alleged fraud, said Meinrad Stoecklin, a spokesman for police in Basel.
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