Tuesday, February 4, 2014

THE LITTLE BLACK JACKET

Last year, Chanel organized an exhibition around the famous « little black jacket ». The exhibition called "The little black jacket" took place at the Grand Palais in Paris. Carine Roitfeld and Karl Lagerfeld organized that exhibition with over 100 celebrities and icons shot by the greatest photographers in fashion, and Karl Lagerfeld himself. This exhibition highlighted the iconic jacket worn on any gender and any style by those celebrities.
The exhibition lasted 15 days. To keep living the experience, a book has been created, a Facebook page and a twitter account let people follow the many other exhibitions organized in capital cities all over the world. And last but not least, for the occasion, Chanel launched a website called « The little black jacket » in order to continue the exhibition and live a real e-experience around that famous jacket. Karl Lagerfeld and Carine Roitfed were at the initiative of this project.
Each photo showed these celebrities wearing a different interpretation of the iconic Chanel black jacket, redesigned by Lagerfeld to showcase the range and versatility of it.

No need to present Chanel. No need to present this famous luxury brand known by everyone as the best one in the world. No need to present the quality of the top-of-the range fashion clothes, accessorizes, jewelry and services.
Luxury brands develop more and more their digital part. Because it's inevitable and because people want to keep experimenting the experience of their favorite brand. Luxury brand know how to create the envy, make it grow and be unique. Indeed, luxury brands play on the historic and authentic part, in order to create a dreamy environment.


THE E-EXPERIENCE

The e-experience created by Chanel allowed people to discover the jacket, and the celebrities wearing it. Moreover, it allowed people to discover how to appropriate this masterpiece. Men, women, models, actors, singers... the jacket would fit anyone wearing it as long as it is designed by Karl.
A real digital experience has been set up in order to let the people being immerse in that environment.
The ergonomic of the website is original. The user has to navigate from an image to another thanks to the arrows. We're at the same time led and voluntarily lost on the website. We can got lost in the website, discovering the silhouettes, the icons behind the jacket. But moreover, we discover the different ways of wearing the jacket. This digital exhibition imposes its style by its originality. The user is totally immersed in that experience. Once again, Karl Lagerfeld creates the surprise : by the online experience of that artistic work, the stylist has an innovative and polyvalent gaze.



Live the e-experience here.



The experience is followed by many videos presenting the making-of of the iconic masterpiece in the Maison Chanel, the making-of of the shooting with the celebrities... It's been spread on the web thanks to the Facebook and Twitter page of "The little black jacket".




THE BIG IDEA

The “Big idea” of an ad or a project is not simply a slogan. It is more than this : it's something contagious, something that will be discussed by everyone and everywhere. More than marking brains and spirits, it links the product with the client by a real message, a real experience.

The “Big Idea” of the “little black jacket” project was clearly to mark the spirit with that event. More than just an exhibition, Chanel let us continue the experience, continue to explore the greatness of the brand with the imagination and originality associated.
We feel that the product and the client are connected : first of all, the jacket is physically connected to the person, and then, the e-experience lets the person be all the more connected by the fact it keeps experimenting the process.
This disruptive idea is surprising : the little black jacket is an iconic and authentic piece of the Maison Chanel. Creating a digital experience around an authentic product was quite daring because it could have been too shifted on time. On the contrary, it fitted perfectly with the idea of the project, which was revisiting an iconic product over time, people, style and minds.

The Maison Chanel succeeded its digital experience keeping all the graphic identity and the authenticity of the brand. 



Eloïse Rey


Sources :
http://lapetitevestenoire.chanel.com/fr_FR/experience
http://www.chanel.com
http://www.thedenizen.co.nz/culture/chanels-little-black-jacket/








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