The Collaboration Club: Monaco Muses & Makers

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Credentials through collaboration, endorsement by association.

 

Club Monaco strengthens its reputation as the effortlessly stylish purveyor of timeless fashions by forming links with a select number of discrete and discerning designers and doyens of quality chic.

From exclusive jewellery and favoured footwear, to accessories for ipads, and facsimilies for footnotes , these hand-selected, hand-makers are the ideal complement to Club Monaco popularity.

Where rubbing shoulders enhances reputations, and creates destinations.

 

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E-Rapha-lite Movement: The Art of Cyber-Cycling

The true omnichannel customer experience embraces and evolves every touchpoint. It makes the customer dream and aspire, reassures their concerns, educates their knowledge and supports them before, during and after every purchase, from their first purchase. Rapha does all of that and more.

 

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Rapha is the yellow jersey of cycling branding, king of the multi-channel mountains and the sprint king of content management and customer engagement. In the peloton of professional competitors, every corner is covered, every breakaway anticipated as Rapha builds an enviable position as every cyclist’s aspirational accomplice.

The website communicates a genuine passion for cycling from the sponsorship of world famous teams to the evolution and development of events and races for everyone from the enthusiastic amateur, to the aspiring professional. Blogs, videos, interviews and competitions are all harnessed as the brand illustrates its journey on the road to designing and building some of the most innovative equipment on the market and allows their customers to rub shoulders and saddles with the giants of the sport.

With a team of tens of thousands, cyber-cycling becomes a commercial reality, in the trusted hands of Rapha.

 

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A Sonic Site for Sore Eyes is Music to Your Urbanears

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The myriad of messages are presented in a beautifully simple and stylish way allowing the customer to select by lilac, lemon or whatever hue is particularly you.

 

Limited editions combine function and fashion, with the superbly subtly coloured Pumpkin capturing amber audio ambiance ideal for your autumn activities.

Environmental credentials are encapsulated by Platten, where every re-constructed headpiece comes complete with coordinates for your own 5sqkilometres of protected Costa Rican forest packed with rare butterflies, beautiful bugs and special spiders.

On every level UrbanEars is a brand to get your head around.

 

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Every hero has a story!
If you have products that haven’t got a story, have you got a product at all?

 

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Pretty Amazing: Fits.me makes ’em Green with Envy

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The fun continues with the revolutionary Fits.Me function on the stunning Pretty Green website where customers input their shape and can then see exactly how each type of shirt would look on their frame.

Sustainable technology with continued benefits and results – conversions up, returns drastically down and customers sold forever on the idea of Fits.Me

 

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Creative Souls of Fashion@ ASOS’s Fashion Finders

The mother of online fashion becomes a cradle for the daughters of today’s trends and looks.

 

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In the ASOS Fashion Finder what was editorial and schedules has become responsive and dynamic in what is becoming the most informative and engaging relationship between any retailer and its customers.

Revolutionising and re-mixing the magazine formula the retailer sets the broad calendar of fashion seasonality, events and trends mapping out the expansive landscape in readiness for its readers and buyers to populate it with ideas, creations favourites and inspirations.

The role and relationship between ASOS and its advocates is symbiotic and sophisticated as the contributors change hats between buyers and sellers, between creators and admirers and between passive browsers to dynamic contributors. ASOS gives the best contributors the exposure and opportunity to develop through several embryonic stages from Style Rookies to Rising Stars and beyond.

ASOS keeps a firm hold on commercially strategic content, but down to the second-by-second live fashion feed, this is a startling tribute and testament to the creativity of the consumer.

 

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VM-unleashed works with retail businesses to create inbound retail marketing calendars combining off-line and online inspiration and opportunities.

Primania: Primark’s Personal Promotion Machine

E-commerce is not for every retailer, but social marketing certainly is.

 

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Primark has experimented with online selling in collaboration with ASOS, but with an average item value so low the economics just didn’t add up. So how can the Primark retail powerhouse engage with the digital world and sell to a wider audience?

Along comes Primania at the forefront of social sharing and social selling, in a digital model that is perfect for a mass market value performer, hell-bent on an international invasion across Europe and now to the US. Blurring the boundaries of retail, marketing, PR and advertising Primania combines the “available to all appeal” of its assortment with the endless appetite for self-promotion.

The idea is huge, but the concept simple as customers sign-in, creating their personal bios, and then upload themselves with their Primark fashions.

 

The social scenarios continue with looks and outfits favourite and scored, and also the opportunity for any budding fashionistas to propel their profile to the level of guru, followed and revered across the networks.

Primania is used as part of the Primark site, pruned back to latest looks, ethical credentials and store location, with Primania, like its protégées, the real stars of the Primark rollercoaster.

 

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VM-unleashed works with retailers to create social network strategies for engaging and selling to their customers…

Pinterest John Lewis: Never Standing Still

Celebrating in style, John Lewis pulls out all the stops as it collaborates and coordinates its way through its Never Standing Still Campaign marking 150 years of the famous retailer.

 

Across blogs, twitter, facebook, instagram and pinterest content has been created and developed with suppliers and partners, and from its loyal legions of shoppers from 9 to 90 if not the magic 150.

 

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John Lewis: Never Standing Still – A Story Never Knowingly Undertold

Celebrating in style, John Lewis pulls out all the stops as it collaborates and coordinates its way through its Never Standing Still Campaign marking 150 years of the famous retailer.

 

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Across blogs, twitter, facebook, instagram and pinterest content has been created and developed with suppliers and partners, and from its loyal legions of shoppers from 9 to 90 if not the magic 150. Centre stage is the TV campaign, in its full glory a 3 minute celebration of activity as it grows with its customer from childhood to maturity through the 15 decades of change that have marked its evolution.

Drawing from the past, with a commercial foothold in the present the retailer has collaborated with some of its most loyal and longstanding partners such as Barbour and Paul Smith, developing heritage collections fit for the fashion kings of the here and now. The campaign includes many opportunities for interaction with twitter feeds inviting everyone to share their own experiences of Never Standing Still, as well as competitions for sharing their best John Lewis moments from both sides of the sales counter.

 

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Wholesome and rounded, thoughtful and inspiring, the history of John Lewis never looked so good in the digital world.

Rules of Engagement: Game Changing Louis Vuitton

Not for the first time, it has taken a traditional brand to demonstrate how new technology and social engagement can enhance a reputation, communicate a product line and win over the hearts of both new and old alike, with humour, interaction and fun.

 

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To promote its collection of leather cases for iphone, pads and books the brand has gone back to the heritage of computer games into the memories of its core customer, adding a new touch and freshness that will appeal to the sons and daughters of the rich & famous. In a combination of space invaders and video tennis Loius Vuitton uses cases as spacemen, destroyed at will in the defence of good taste and beautiful products.

The landing page is, as ever, beautifully created with a demonstration video, product information and of course the game itself in three levels of difficulty. This is not child’s play, but Louis Vuitton makes the game of social engagement look easy as it sweeps to victory in the power world of luxury brands.

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“To B or not to B: That is the Beckham”

Coincidence or Capital Investment, David Beckham’s collaborations seem set to conquer everything that stands for “B” in beautiful.

 

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A stroll around the billboards, a flick through the magazines, will easily reveal the familiar face, fronting fashionable brands such as Breitling, Belstaff and the iconic British Bentley.

True the superstar shares admirable qualities with these benchmark brands. Timeless style, sartorial elegance, intrinsic quality and unique craftsmanship are all expressions that effortlessly cross the touch lines of watch making, engineering, tailoring and have occasionally been used to embellish the reputation of one of the world’s greatest soccer stars, or glamour superstars depending which side of the celebrity fence you sit.

One thing for sure, that teamwork always wins out over the performance of a single solo display, and the fancy foot work that engineered this happy band shows no sign yet of letting in any cheap goals.

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