Scarlett Goes Grunge ; As the New Face of Mango, Johansson has Swapped Preppie for Leopardskin and Tousled Blonde. Liz Hoggard Met Her in Madrid

Evening Standard - London › July 14, 2009

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ILOOK like a street, punky girl," Scarlett Johansson tells me. "It's that edgy Debbie-Harrymeets-Marianne-Faithfull look." Certainly the new images of Johansson for the autumn/winter 2009 Mango campaign, which hits the streets today, are a world away from the Scarlett that we've become used to. Gone is the preppie, allAmerican girl of Lost in Translation, or the noir heroine of The Black Dahlia.

Johansson shot the ad campaign for the Spanish high-street fashion store with uber-cool photographer Mario Sorrenti. Hair styled in a tousled blonde bob, we see Scarlett wearing leather and leopardskin, super-skinny jeans and a black bra. You wouldn't mess with that girl. "She's not a waif," says Johansson proudly.

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Scarlett Goes Grunge ; As the New Face of Mango, Johansson has Swapped Preppie for Leopardskin and Tousled Blonde. Liz Hoggard Met Her in Madrid

She takes over as the face of Mango from Penelope Cruz (who has fronted it for the past two years) and jokes she already knew a lot ab...

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