Body Paint And Nipple Pasties? It Can Only Be The Jean Paul Gaultier For Diet Coke Launch

Body Paint And Nipple Pasties? It Can Only Be The Jean Paul Gaultier For Diet Coke Launch
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Jean Paul Gaultier's limited edition Night & Day Diet Coke bottle designs went on sale today (16 April) and how did the brand promote the designer's work? With two barely-clad models painted to look like the products by award-winning body artist Carolyn Roper posing outside Harvey Nicks.

Photo: Getty

Our first concern was, obviously, for the girls' wellbeing - after all there's a chill in the air in London today that's enough to freeze your nips off and, with the absence of any prominent chest-based protrusions, we were worried that metaphor had become reality.

Thankfully what had actually happened was the girls had protected their extremities with skin-coloured pasties (of the nipple variety, not the ones you now have to pay extra to eat warm from Greggs).

Nipple-news aside, the Night & Day designs are based on Gaultier's iconic perfume bottles - the corseted lady and the breton-striped sailor boy - and fit rather well with the curvaceous coke bottle shape.

You can get a closer look here (this pic is from the French launch party hence it being called Coca Cola Light instead of Diet Coke):

Photo: PA

And for more JPG, here's the designer's Spring 2012 couture collection: