Audrey Tautou s undertaking the role of Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel in the film “Coco avant Chanel.” The actress is portraying one of the most legendary designers hailing from Paris. However, posters with the starlet sitting on sitting on a couch in pajamas and smoking a cigarette are being banned from Paris. Currently any images of smoking, even those of one the most influential Parisians, are being torn down.

The country’s city of romance has banned all public smoking. This took place at the start of 2009. In light of the no smoking, no exceptions law, a new poster was put in place of the “offensive” advert.

Via Telegraph:

“The film’s producers were obliged to provide an alternative poster showing Tautou with the male lead. But a representative of Warner France said that “for us, the real poster is where Coco Chanel is smoking in a natural pose that translates her strong personality and her modernity.”

Agreed. You will rarely find a picture of the real Coco with a cigarette in her hand or mouth. It’s a part of her personality.

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