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Zeenat Aman Revisits Vintage Modelling Ads on Instagram

Taking to Instagram to recover lost mementos from her teenage modelling career, she highlighted print ads’ timeless appeal.

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Overview

  • She shared a carousel of her past endorsements, including Air India, a jewellery campaign with Shobha De, a flower-power Krimpex poster and a long-standing Lux association.
  • She lamented losing nearly all her tangible archives—photographs, letters and slides—from her five-decade career.
  • She described each rediscovered image as offering a "jolt of recollection" that unearths buried memories of her early days balancing poise training and pocket money.
  • A scholarship year in late 1960s California, she noted, left a lasting imprint on her style, evident in the Krimpex bell-bottom and headband ensemble.
  • Aman argued that the tangible nature of print advertisements gives them an irreplaceable charm that still resonates more deeply than video commercials.