Image from Swarovski's Elle International campaign. Image credit: Elle International
Precision-cut crystal maker Swarovski is encouraging women around the world to match their jewelry to their mood through tailored content.
Swarovski’s promotion for its Remix collection leverages the local understanding of Lagardère Global Advertising’s creative and production teams at 10 Elle International editions. The resulting native advertising campaign aims to cater the creative to the specific markets, taking the adaptation for each title beyond a simple translation.
Media mix
Swarovski’s Remix collection features strands of different styles that link together with magnetic clasps. One strand can be worn as a bracelet, while the chains can be connected to form necklaces of varying lengths.
Communicating this versatility to consumers around the world, Swarovski and its media agency Havas turned to Elle International.
The women’s magazine’s fashion stylists provided their perspective, showing consumers the number of ways they can weird the Remix styles to achieve “timeless” or “romantic” looks.
Image from Elle's Swarovski campaign. Image credit: Elle International
Those looking for a more romantic look are given the suggestions to wear Remix styles as a headband or replacing laces in a shirt with Swarovski’s chains. For more classic dressing, the pieces are shown worn as a belt or a tie.
These outfit ideas are paired with editorial imagery representative of Elle’s fashion-forward audience.
A film created for the co-branded campaign portrays a stylized version of the making of the still images. The video documents the on-set interactions as models and an editor meet on a rooftop to create a series of photos.
The short also speaks to the social media generation, with the models and the editor frequently using their cell phones to communicate or document their experience.
Elle Korea x Swarovski
Swarovski’s campaign is running across 10 editions of Elle, reaching readers in France, Germany, Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom, Australia, Hong Kong, China, South Korea and Japan.
Along with native online content, which debuted around Sept. 21, the campaign also appears as part of the print edition, with a page in the October issues of the international titles dedicated to styling tips with Swarovski. Social media posts also back up the initiative.
While the central content pieces, including the imagery and the video, were distributed to each of the local titles, the campaign itself was adapted for the local audiences. Swarovski’s media plans for each market are also diversified, based on differing KPIs in each locale.
Going native
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“Elle Invites Karlito To Globetrot the Trends” saw the furry bag charm modeled after Fendi creative director Karl Lagerfeld traveling to destinations including Shanghai, Rome or New York, with each city corresponding to a certain look of the season. This exclusive sponsored content program put Fendi in front of the fashion-hungry Elle audience around the world (see story).
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