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Why Surrealist Marketing Is Suddenly Everywhere

Brands including Jacquemus, Tod’s, Isabel Marant, and Victoria Beckham are experimenting with eccentric CGI marketing campaigns.
Brands including Jacquemus, Tod’s, Isabel Marant, and Victoria Beckham are experimenting with eccentric and absurd CGI marketing campaigns.
Luxury brands are experimenting with CGI marketing campaigns. (Instagram/@Jacquemus)

It began with a post to Jacquemus’ Instagram account of a couple of vibrantly coloured and oversized handbags gliding like trams along the streets of Paris. The French brand followed it up with a huge purse “sailing” on Italy’s Lake Como.

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Tiffany Ap

Tiffany Ap is Senior Correspondent at The Business of Fashion. She is based in New York and covers marketing and the critical China market.

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