(Daily Mail Reporter) - At just 17, Dakota Fanning is still a year under the legal age of consent in her home state of California, but this trifling fact doesn’t seem to concern Marc Jacobs.
The 48-year-old designer chose to place the teenager in a provocative pose – in homage to the 1950′s novel ‘Lolita,’ about sex with an underage girl - to sell his new perfume, Oh, Lola!
Jacobs’ long-term collaborator Juergen Teller shot the Twilight star in Los Angeles wearing a girlish, pink scalloped polka dot dress.
The background is similarly juvenile – it’s monotone pastel pink compounding the innocence of the composition.
But then a large bottle of the scent, featuring its signature rose-top has been placed provocatively in between the young starlet’s legs.
The teenager clutches it as she tilts back lasciviously and stares intently into the camera.
New Yorker Jacobs admits that his intention was to portray the young woman as a re-boot of the tragic character in Vladimir Nabokov’s 1955 novel, Lolita, which tells the story of young girl’s sexual relationship with a much older man, who becomes her step-father.
He told Women’s Wear Daily: ‘When we were speaking about who to use in the ads, I had recently seen The Runaways…I knew she could be this contemporary Lolita, seductive yet sweet.’
The iconic novel tells the story of sexual predator Humbert Humbert and his exploitation of his ‘Lolita’ from the age of 12.
Ironically, this is the age at which Dakota first posed for the successful designer.
The pull of Jacobs is so strong that Fanning admitted she was: ‘humbled by the offer and said yes immediately.’
Dakota’s sister Elle, who is just 13, also looked much older than her years in a grown-up photo shoot for Black Book magazine recently.
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