I've been asked who is the model in the Gucci ad below. She is Carmen Kass. In the other, more mainstream versions of the ad, you can see her face - but not her G...
The usual Gucci PR blitz is under way -- less than 24 hours after the first appearance of the ad, The Guardian already comes to help in this article today using all the key words -- "controversy... raunchy... a number of telephone complaints... the genius behind Gucci... provoked outrage... the creative genius (again!)... a flood of complaints..." etc etc.

I think it was Nora Ephron who first wrote - "people seems to have lost the ability to distinct between controversy and what is merely offensive".