So, now that everything is back to normal at antville.org, let's get back to the G question - who is the model featured in The ad?

I recognised her as Carmen Kass in my first post about it, and indeed her name was mentioned in all articles about the ad the day after, including newspapers with much more fact-checkers on the paylist than this humble weblog.

But on Saturday - ba-da-bum! Women agency's people, furious to see Carmen getting the spotlight alone, claim the model is their own Louise Pederson, a fresh import from Denmark.

In the meantime American mags carried the "soft" version of the ad (pic above, larger scan here), and the girl in this version is Carmen Kass without any reasonable doubt (yes, I learned my English from "Law and Order" re-runs).

The Sunday Times interviewed Tom Ford this weekend (really really special thx to tigerrouge for the info), and the article seems to confirm the G girl was Louise. The journalist was Colin McDowell, the senior fashion writer of the London broadsheet, and he wrote: "the model is Louise Pedersen, not Carmen Kass, as many believe". McDowell has recently written authorised books about Manolo Blahnik and Ralph Lauren, so he has genuine access to the industry - including Tom Ford.

So either the girl is indeed Louise Pedersen, or we are in front of a tactic agreement - the unknown girl wins some publicity, the respectable model doesn't loose respect.

I've been asked who is the male model - no controversy here, he is Adam Senn.