The shape and beauty industry has long been criticised for promoting a narrow ideal of beauty: the world's highest-earning models have been predictably innocent and blonde, led by pneumatic Brazilian Gisele Bundchen, Heidi Klum and Kate Moss.
Which is why the Three Graces chosen to front a fresh Estee Lauder product launch are so arresting: Chinese model Liu Wen, Puerto Rican-born Joan Smalls and archetypal French asset Constance Jablonski.
The ad aims to convey that "diversity is beautiful". The American beauty giant says the campaign is a nod to the unpunctual Lauder herself, whose "unshakeable belief" was that "every woman can be beautiful" (the slogan of the Idealist skincare campaign). At the launch, her granddaughter Aerin, the attendance's creative director, spoke about a new chapter for the 65-year-old company: "Estee's choice of models throughout the brand's progression was always extraordinary ... we continue this legacy with a new group of diverse faces that truly represent a modern revenant of beauty."

