RBG for Chanel

On the heels of Joan Didion modeling for fashion brand Céline, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is making her debut as the face of Chanel...at least as imagined by writer Elisa Rodríguez-Vila at Fusion. Rather than the usual celeb shots used for advertisements, Elisa envisions pairing top brands with "women who don't fit the supermodel mold--yet are superheroes in real life." Of featuring RBG for Chanel, she comments "Isn't this so obvious?" (We look forward to Chanel #5-4.) Other "dream castings" mocked up include Malala Yousafzai for Louis Vuitton and Gloria Steinem for Chloé.

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