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Main • #5

Christie Brinkley

Release year:1995
Category:Main campaign
Collections:Main Campaign
Times published:6
Printed tagline:MILK. What a Surprise!

Notes

MilkAdMan main campaign number; see Placements for issue evidence. Part of the campaign's 1995 first-year celebrity roster; Christie Brinkley appeared in multiple milk-mustache ads across the campaign's run.

Main image

Original period print scan — MILK. What a Surprise!

Original 1995 magazine-page ad; seller listing identifies it as original MWAS artwork.

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Credits

Photographer / credited image source:Annie Leibovitz
How certain the credit is:A — agency-side archive metadata
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More images of this ad — click to enlarge

Later “got milk?” reissue (higher-resolution scan). The main image above is the original release with the period-correct slogan.

Main campaign ad

Printed tagline:MILK. What a Surprise!
Format:Full ad creative· English

Direct full-size main ad verified from MilkAdMan's rebuilt high-resolution archive.

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Visible text / transcription
Slug / tagline:MILK. What a Surprise!

Christie Brinkley — MWAS blue-suit state

Format:Original print / seller scan· English

Seller scan of blue-suit MILK. What a Surprise! state.

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Visible text / transcription
Slug / tagline:MILK. What a Surprise!

Fashion Week Daily gallery copy — Christie Brinkley

Format:Secondary web image· English

Independent 2018 gallery copy; not used to override period-copy text/layout.

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Variants of this ad (2)

Different printed versions of the same ad are grouped here.

Christie Brinkley — MWAS — with name
Year:1995
Version type:Ad version
Difference:Version of main #5.
Notes:Milk Ad Collecting Central distinguishes this ad beneath the subject's image link.

Images of this version

Where it was published

PublicationIssue/datePageFormatSourceNotes
Better Homes and GardensFebruary 199577Full-page adInternet Archive scanExact issue and page verified in the digitized Better Homes and Gardens volume at the Internet Archive.
Publication unresolved1995Collector-documented versionsourceMilk Ad Collecting Central distinguishes this ad beneath the subject's image link.
Christie Brinkley — MWAS — without name
Year:1995
Version type:Ad version
Difference:Version of main #5.
Notes:Milk Ad Collecting Central distinguishes this ad beneath the subject's image link.· Exact no-name Christie Brinkley child.

Images of this version

Original 1995 paper — MWAS without name

Printed tagline:MILK. What a surprise!
Format:Original magazine paper advertisement — dealer/seller photograph· English

Dealer photograph of the original 1995 magazine page preserves the MWAS ad with no Christie Brinkley name line visible at the bottom.

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Visible text / transcription
Slug / tagline:MILK. What a surprise!

Where it was published

PublicationIssue/datePageFormatSourceNotes
Publication unresolved1995Collector-documented versionsourceMilk Ad Collecting Central distinguishes this ad beneath the subject's image link.

Where it was published

PublicationIssue/datePageFormatSourceNotes
Better Homes & GardensFeb 1995Print adsource
Entertainment WeeklyFeb 10, 1995Print adsource
Family CircleFeb 21, 1995Print adsource
Good HousekeepingFeb 1995Print adsource
RedbookFeb 1995Print adsource
Woman's DayFeb 21, 1995Print adsource

More sources

Fetch the Paper period/dealer scan
Independent 1995 solo Christie Brinkley scan. Known child states differ by printed name/contact-line treatment.
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