One of my “old man crushes” is Mikhail Baryshnikov. I loooove his work ethic, how he mentors young dancers, the fact he still takes care of himself, and is still dancing. And he’s very attractive, too. (If you need help remembering who he is, besides one of the greatest dancers ever, he played Aleksandr Petrovsky in Sex and the City).

Lucky me, Mikhail is now in new Louis Vuitton ads. Ok ok, LV wanted Annie Leibovitz to be the subject of their new ad campaign (to help her out with her money woes, you know) but she insisted that other people be in the ads with her.

Antoine Arnault, LV’s communication director, said this about Annie and her new campaign.

“She’s a real, pure, 100 percent artist,” enthused Arnault, who insisted on ponying up for her chosen co-star, ballet legend Mikhail Baryshnikov. “We’ve always been very committed to her, to her talent.”

As for the final photo-

Taken in Leibovitz’s New York studio, the photo depicts the dancer barefoot on a podium, and the photographer eying her subject, her own three-year-old monogram Neverfull bag next to her and stuffed with books. The tag line reads: “The journey of a star, captured in a flash.”

What do you think? I’m kind of over Annie Leibovitz at the moment. She’s just saturating the market…

Photo and story from WWD