Sienna Miller & Tom Sturridge’s Burberry ads: adorable or cringe-worthy?

Sienna Miller and Tom Sturridge are the new “faces” of Burberry. Burberry has been doing this for a while – they trade up their celebrity faces nearly every season, and usually it’s someone with more celebrity name-recognition than actual career acclaim. Sienna and Tom are a real-life couple, and parents to daughter Marlowe Sturridge. So, they obviously look very coupled-up in the ad campaign. For me, Tom is kind of a blank slate – I don’t know much about him other than he’s seriously pretty and trying to hide the pretty behind awful hair (and sometimes awful facial hair) and I also know he’s tight with Robert Pattinson. That’s it. That’s all I know about him. Which should make him a perfect blank slate for advertisers, but I’m not into how he looks here.

As for Sienna… I once thought she was incredibly pretty. But she’s a smoker and she loves to party and she loves to sunbathe topless with married lovers. Which means that she’s sort of lost her youthful “cuteness”. And the awful hair style isn’t helping at all. I think Sienna is trying to put herself out there as “the new and improved Sienna, now with motherhood” and this new version is less likely to want media attention. But then she poses with her lover and baby-daddy for an ad campaign…? It doesn’t make much sense.

The ad campaign was done by Mario Testino, and it’s called “Trench Kisses”. The director of Burberry, Christopher Bailey, said that: “This was a shoot full of love and laughter. It was such a treat to work with Sienna and Tom, and to capture their magic together.” The commercial is a lot cuter than the still photos:

Photos courtesy of Testino/Burberry.

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  1. Elle says:

    So cheesy.

  2. gorda says:

    Iam not a fan of Sienna Miller. She is overrated but at least she looks good in fashion magazines. Her boyfriend on the other hand, is soooo ugly. Burberry ruden what could have been a great ad. He looks dirty and disgusting. That’s suppossed to be sexy?

    • emmie_a says:

      I don’t think Tom Sturridge is sooo ugly — he’s a total pretty boy, prettier than most girls!

    • Annie says:

      Tom is a pretty boy. Too pretty. Which I guess is why he has these weird hair cuts and ugly clothes, because he wants to be a serious actor not known for his good looks.

      I personally think he should just embrace his looks. His haircuts and bad style are not A list material, and in the end, everything helps you get better roles. He kicked butt on Broadway. We need to see him in more movies. I’ve always thought that he needed to play his cards better, because he could even get better work than Rob. He’s a much better actor.

    • Chrissy says:

      I agree with gorda, where is everyone seeing the pretty in Tom’s very much unattractive face?

    • Bobbiesue says:

      It’s all personal taste. I agree. I find him incredibly odd looking. The kissing photo is cringeworthy…it doesn’t make me want to buy the trench or the handbag. Isn’t that the point of ads??

    • Jarredsgirl says:

      Tom is “pretty” but not attractive, IMO. When I first saw him, I was like “ooh” but now I am just like “meh”. He looks a bit douchy. What is their age difference? He looks so young and she seems like a middle aged woman. I know she’s not, but it seems like she has been semi-famous for such a long time.

  3. Sannie says:

    I think she is very pretty, but I haven’t liked her since her topless days on a boat with a (still married and father of four) Balthazar Getty.

  4. lambchops says:

    Maybe he’s an awesome guy, but I just…he has a face I want to punch for some reason.

  5. Elodie says:

    The oddest pairing to me. But hey at least they seem happy so….

  6. RdyfrmycloseupmrDvlle says:

    I want to know what made Anna Wintour drop her like a hot potato. She was once Wintours little pet. Then she dropped her. Was it her rampant drug use? Her affair with Getty?

    • magpie says:

      Possibly. Getty’s wife has a lot of powerful hollywood friends and is very well connected. Sienna f*cked the wrong dude. I think if Sienna’s career has gone no where since; this also has a lot to do with it. She was black balled.

    • Another Ann says:

      She was just in Anna’s box at Wimbledon with Tom Stu either last year or the year before. So Getty wasn’t a problem for Anna.

      • magpie says:

        They weren’t sharing a box, she was sitting in front of them in the stands.

  7. Esmom says:

    Cheesy. And try hard. I think he’s adorable although his hair in these ads is horrendous. I’ve always thought they were an odd pair.

  8. mom2two says:

    I don’t get what makes this guy attractive at all. She is very pretty though.
    And I still want to slap him for telling a reporter that he or she should have never read the e-mails Shia LB put out about the behind the scenes drama of Orphans. Huh????

  9. Stef Leppard says:

    I never realized how good-looking he is. I’m usually distracted by his hipster clothing, I guess.

  10. Vee says:

    Works for me. They look interesting.

  11. Jennifer12 says:

    It’s not a bad shoot. Wonder how she’d feel, though, if her pretty fiancé was caught cheating, as she’s done to two other women with their husbands.

  12. renee says:

    She look dated. He looks blank.

  13. Magneticfieldz says:

    I’m confused. Why does he have duck lips? Is that possible on a dude?

  14. NM9005 says:

    Where are the days when Sturridge was a cute and pretty typical British boy?

    Where are the days when Miller was openly hooking up with a married man and pitying herself magazines while doing it and people still liking her on Celebitchy and hating his ‘moneygrubbing’ wife?

    Those were the days!

  15. serena says:

    I agree with you Kaiser, Sienna ruined her skin with her bad habits. Anyway the CM is rather cute.

  16. marie says:

    meh, that’s all I feel about these photos.

  17. L says:

    He’s prettier than she is. That’s just off.

  18. Micki says:

    I like her retro look.
    He doesn’t do anything for me.

  19. jen says:

    You think that dude is pretty? He looks more like a foot than Pattinson.

  20. Mac says:

    Not a fan of either and I find Burberry ads over the top, but I love the lighting in several of those photos (3rd and 5th)

  21. Gwen says:

    She’s got a very short neck and she’s not aging well. I think her days are over.

  22. UsedToBeLulu says:

    Get a room. Ugh.

  23. Tig says:

    I fail to see how he is “pretty”- he has squinty eyes, and the hair here is a horror show.

    I liked Sienna in “Casanova”, but these ads are not good. Bring back Emma!

  24. Decloo says:

    Sienna looks amazing. Tom is only one step up from Pete Doherty. No thanks.

  25. Meggin says:

    I don’t like the long hair on him, but yeah, he is a total pretty boy if you look at other pictures of him. She seems to look a lot older than him to me… it’s an odd pairing but hey, it works for them, right?

  26. Maggie says:

    I think they look hot! She’s gorgeous!

  27. buckley says:

    Tom Sturridge looks like a pillow weeper.

  28. Bobbiesue says:

    She’s a walking billboard most of the time. The irony is she would never carry this bag. It’s either her Balenciaga first, or more recently, Stella McCartney. Burberry should pay her to actually use the stuff. I mean, even Gwynnie deigned to carry a Coach!!!!

  29. Denise says:

    He cleans up well but looks like a douche.

  30. Nerd Alert says:

    In the last pic she looks like she could be an Olsen. He looks like he cries a lot.

  31. Claudia says:

    She’s only 4 years older than him…he’s 27 and she’s 31. She looks older, doesn’t she?

  32. Tramlyn says:

    Sienna Miller and Tom Sturridge a very beautiful couple. Thumbs up 🙂

  33. another nina says:

    Well, for one, Tom got Tony nomination and he has a bunch of smaller awards for theatre in the UK. And he was a mastermind behind the co-alliance of him, Pattz , Eddie Redmayne and Andrew Garfield in Hollywood. He is a very cool guy, very popular in the actor’s crowd. Pattz is more like his attachment although they have been best friends since 6th grade.