Eschewing the burgeoning trend of casting relative unknowns for the spring 2012 campaign season, Versace stayed true to form and went big and bold with supermodel of the world Gisele taking a star turn.

Gisele and Ryan Barrett were shot by the imitable Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott and styled by Joe McKenna and David Bradshaw dramatically entering a pool somewhere in the California desert.

Much like La Bündchen, I know that if and whenever I go for a swim, there's always a Lucite platform involved. [WWD]