Taking the first part of this deconstructed process, Williamson examines the way the reader creates the meaning of an advertised product. The exchange of value that takes place in an advertisement only works if the reader is somebody for whom the currency has value in the first place. We give Deneuve’s face its meaning for use in the advertisement for Chanel No. 5. The advertisement did not create that meaning, it appropriated an already-created meaning. We did not (necessarily) know that we already knew the value of Deneuve’s face until it was used in the advertisement. The point is that it is in their use that ideas have currency, not in their abstract existence. ‘Values exist not in things but in their transference’ (Williamson, 1978, p. 43).