[PRRE20] Prada Resort 2020
Field
Fashion,
Luxury
Type
Campaign
Medium
Social, film, activation
Agency
Ferdinando Verderi Studio
Creative Direction
Marie Bliss Delpy
Graphic Design
Ben Ganz
Production
Morgan Lazslo
Photographer (color)
Keizo Kitajima
Photographer (B&W)
Drew Vickers
DP
Alex Dynan
Styling
Olivier Rizzo
Hair
Anthony Turner
Makeup
Lucia Pieroni
Casting
Ashley Brokaw
Set Design
Mary Howard
Post Production
Graeme Hagan
Local Production (London)
North Six
Cast
Ashley Radjarame, Freek Iven, Freja Beha Erichsen, Kyla Ramsey, Lexi Boling, Qun Ye, Sara Blomqvist, Stella Jones, Toni Smith, Vic Ishimwe, Xara Giulia, Xiao Wen Ju, Yang Hao
A surreal twist on the idea of stopping to smell the flowers, we collaborated with florists in cities worldwide to wrap floral bouquets in campaign images—effectively using bouquet wrapping paper as media placements.
The campaign was executed using a 360 integration approach that combined fashion advertising, photography, UX/UI design, social media, digital printing, and flower bouquets sourced from across the globe. This resulted in an engaging and interactive campaign experience with a hyper-meta realistic feel.
Blondey McCoy
Grace Coddington
Subversive and Surreal
The Prada Resort 2020 campaign is an innovative evocation of the nature of reality in a brave new world dominated by all sorts of digitally-enhanced imagery, VR, AR, fake news, and endlessly fragmented perspectives. Through an ingeniously executed 360 degrees integration of hyper-meta realness, Prada and Ferdinando Verderi Studio have combined fashion advertising, photography, UX/UI design, social media, digital printing, and flower bouquets from across the globe to create a comprehensively engaging interactive experience.
Entitled “Seditious Simplicity,” the campaign accomplishes something quite rare: an original idea that is brilliantly executed. The campaign starts with photographs by Japanese photographer Keizo Kitajima, known for his dynamic street photography, and New York-based photographer Drew Vickers who creates elegant portraits highlighting human emotion. The resulting imagery contrasts black and white photography with bold color, showing men and women as dualities. One version represents the subjective self one experiences inside their own head, and the other a more objective self as presented to the outer world through various personas, personal branding, and social media.
What follows is a surreal twist on the idea of stopping to smell the flowers; Prada has collaborated with florists in key cities around the world to wrap floral bouquets in printed photography from the campaign. Perfectly timed to coincide with the campaign’s digital release, Prada-lovers in London, Milan, Moscow, New York, Paris, Shanghai, and Tokyo can purchase blossoms rolled up in physical souvenirs from the campaign. The photographs of these dueling selves are further multiplied by the film accompaniment, which pans from a digital printer to the flower bouquets, to a Prada aficionado walking down the streets of Milan with the ad campaign plastered larger than life on the side of a building.
The campaign’s final iteration allows you to put your own visage on the wrapping of a floral bouquet. By clicking on a QR code, you are guided through the process of selecting a bouquet and a Prada bag. Snap a quick pic and Viola! Your face is incorporated into the campaign on the bouquet of your own choosing.
Prada fans in major cities can take it one step further by simply walking to their local florist, and buying a bouquet.
—The Impression