The document outlines the A/W 15 campaign for the London-based fashion label m’a, focusing on its target audience of young, edgy women who value authentic beauty and a distinct personal style. It emphasizes the brand's unique aesthetic, innovative denim pieces, and grassroots marketing strategies that foster direct relationships with customers, promoting an inclusive and fun atmosphere. Key campaign tactics include engaging fashion bloggers, experiential events, and a digital magazine that offers lifestyle content aligned with the brand's ethos.

1. A/W15 CAMPAIGN

2. TABLE OF CONTENT
Audience
Brand Story
Objectives
Concept
Tactics & Platforms
Media Plan
Rationale

3. AUDIENCE
Ideal Client!
Young, raw, natural, effortless, quietly defiant, cool, girly, sweet, grumpy,
moody, grungy. M’A’s muse, Sofia Marques (on the picture) perfectly
embodies the M’A non-fashion, non-glamourous authentic beauty. “We
want to work for a younger customer and a cooler customer”, says Marta
Marques for Interview Magazine, rolling a cigarette. !
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Actual Buyer!
The very young ideal M’A girl cannot necessarily afford to buy into the
brand, as it transpires through M’A visuals in their concept shoots staging
young girls in naked, unsophisticated settings like working class
neighbourhoods, suburban woods or industrial landscapes. But the prices
are justified by the uniqueness of the designs and the high quality of the
fabrics, allowing M’A to target a niche audience of early adopters and
innovators: a “cooler customer”.!
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Research of press coverage, analysis of social media followers and a shop
staff interview at Start (one of M’A’s stockists in Shoreditch), allowed to
identify two main buyers categories:!
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a) Young creative fashion students in their twenties who can hardly afford
the brand and save up to buy one piece (see picture on the left on the next page)!
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b) The cool crowd aged between 30 and 40, young professionals who can
afford the brand (see picture on the right on the next page) !
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The M’A buyer (from both categories) is a city girl, she is not a fashionista
but she cares about looking different in the street: she is a non-conformist
and has her very unique sense of personal style. She comes from the
creative, arts and culture industry, she has her own vision and wants to
express it in her own individual way. She is cool, laid-back, she believes in
natural beauty and in M’A’s motto: “Fashion is about attitude, not hemlines”
(Helmut Lang). What she loves in M’A is the whole atmosphere around it: a
non-fashion, not mainstream but unique and true aesthetic and personality.
Even if she is not that young M’A girl, she is inspired (as the designers are)
by the whole message she conveys and identifies with her non-fashion,
effortless, defiant set of mind. !

5. BRAND STORY
What is M’A?!
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An East London based young, niche and innovative label.!
A real, unique, undone aesthetic conveying a strong atmosphere and attitude that
build the brand’s identity.!
The “Denim revival” (Opening Ceremony): the most basic of Denim as essential
ingredient to M’A’s youth code and grunge spirit.!
Two designers whose own image and lifestyle create a strong personality behind the
brand.!
A simple, straightforward, friendly relationship with the clients that allow to keep
them close, relate to them and involve them in everything they do in a honest,
authentic and effortless way.!
PR managed by M’A (no agency) resulting in close relationship with their fans and
followers: Marta Marques posts pictures of sweets, friends, the studio, the backstage at
the LFW, their interns. Their communication is all about being fun, accessible, simple
and honest.!
A direct online store appearing on their website’s front page: it sets an accessible and
unpretentious mood.!
Model casting with cool girls from the real life street for concept shoots.!
A home-crafted S/S 2015 campaign with visuals created by M’A’s studio team and an
invite to fans/followers to do the same through a competition to win denim key pieces
on social media.!
Style titles such as Wonderland, Dazed & Confused, i-D, Tank targeting a young,
cool, edgy audience. !
!What is not M’A?!
!High end fashion.!
Mainstream fashion.!
Sophisticated, glamorous, fancy, fantasy, exclusive, detached, untouchable.!
A fashion trends follower: M’A don’t pay attention at what’s going on in the fashion
industry, They design following to their own inspirations, which allow them to have no
real direct competitors. A/W 15’s inspirations are a mix of Corinne Day 90’s nostalgia,
Juergen Teller's Go-Sees and a Frida Kahlo, Christian Lacroix aesthetic.!
Only about denim: AW15 is evolutive for M”A with their trademark denim upgraded with
rich metallic leathers and jacquards as well as Swarovski crystals. !
Big name fashion models.!
Photoshopped, polished high fashion campaigns.!
!What M’A needs?!
!Keep focusing on their heavily frayed, raw edged Denim key piece that represents
M’A’s youth code and conveys M’A’s concept of realism, giving a “lived-in feeling - like
the pieces have been through something” (M’A for Dazed)!
Be even closer to the public, offer them more lifestyle, varied, unrelated to fashion
storytelling to make them feel the M’A’s vibe.!
Organise events to build M’A’s unique identity and share the feeling of the M’A
atmosphere with the public.!
Share their inspirations and draw more visibility on their muse: Sofia Marques!
A website update: bio, collections, look books (A/W14, S/S15 and A/W15 are missing),
sustainability information.!

6. CAMPAIGN CONCEPT
Marques Almeida is a young and innovative London-based
women’s wear featuring iconic raw edged denim pieces and
other high quality fabrics for edgy and cool women aged 20 to
40. M’A is absolutely unique because it has a very singular
vision of fashion and allow clients to express a cool and edgy
but non-conformist personal style in the street in a casual,
effortless way.!
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The concept of the campaign will focus on fitting the brand’s
identity but also reinforce it. The main conceptual image the
campaign will convey is M’A’s inspirational essence: the
effortless, raw, non-fashion related beauty embodied by M’A’s
muse Sofia Marques. It is this natural, authentic spirit and
attitude clients must be able to grasp, feel and identify with.
Even if, as A/W15 demonstrates, the brand is evolving and
growing in its designs and fabrics, it is essential to remind that
the spirit behind M’A has not changed and is still defining the
brand. This will be done in different ways from starring key iconic
Denim pieces that convey’s M’A’s raw, grungy youth code to
sticking to an honest, authentic, straightforward communication
and get even closer to the public, involving them and relating to
them.!
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To reinforce M’A’s identity, it is essential to give customers the
opportunity to experience M’A’s atmosphere in a real way. If M’A
is all about authenticity and being real it actually has to be for
the public. Thorough the campaign, emphasis will be put on
physical encounters between the brand and its customers. The
campaign will aim at creating sensory experiences of the brand
and create a world around the collection. A/W15 collection is a
mix of Corinne Day 90’s nostalgia, Juergen Teller's Go-Sees and
Frida Kahlo, Christian Lacroix aesthetics. It is a mix between
M’A’s essence of raw, grungy spirit and new inspirations that
build the brand’s evolution. The duality old spirit/new aesthetics
that characterise the collection will dominate the space and will
allow to convey the campaign’s key message in a consistent

7. OBJECTIVES
To secure 4 stories in style titles like Dazed, i-D,
Wonderland, Tank & 2 blog articles on fashion
blogs like Man Repeller and Garance Doré. !
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Targeting M’A’s specific consumer base (edgy and
cool) and keeping the brand niche to stay in line with
MA’s uniqueness and singular vision.!
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To create more visibility for the brand on social
media by using new tools and collaborating
with fan/followers and influent bloggers.!
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Creating more shareable content that could spread on
social media to increase awareness of the collection
and to allow customers to feel involved in the M’A’s
experience.!
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To establish 3 ways of making M’A’s
atmosphere thicker, more palpable and making
contact with the pubic.!
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Playing with M’A’s biggest strength : M’A is not just a
fashion label but a whole concept that the client need
to understand and feel part of.!
M’A designing rule: “Fashion designers must give a
social reflection of the things going on. Fashion is a
kind of communication. It’s language without words.
Fashion is about attitude, not hemlines” (Helmut
Lang)!

8. TACTICS & PLATFORMS
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Tactic 1: The Show Revisited!
Sofia Marques and M’A’s interns/studio
team walk the catwalk at the Fashion
Week!
Collaboration with fashion bloggers and
social media fans!
i-D and Dazed are invited backstage!
Backstage Vines & Snapchats!
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Tactic 2: The Marques Almeida Digital
Magazine!
Every little M’A vibe!
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Tactic 3: The Under M’A A/W15 Event!
Shoreditch Warehouse!
A/W15 concept video starring Sofia
projected on the walls!
Collaboration with graffiti artists!
M’A Pop-up Store!
MAC Stand!
Warpaint Concert!
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9. TACTIC 1: The Show Revisited
! Sofia Marques, her group of friends (on the picture) and M’A’s interns/studio team walk the
runway at the Fashion Week!
!The girls carry cameras on the runway and photograph the public. Most of the show-goers wear Marques
Almeida pieces from past seasons (Tank). The pictures are modified and turned into digital polaroids with
vintage look to fit M’A’s nostalgic aesthetic. The pictures are posted on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram
after the show. This tactic allow to create shareable content and increase the visibility of the brand on
social media. Getting M’A’s muse to walk at the show allow to reaffirm the brand’s essence, its message
and to share M’A’s secretive muse with the public. Sofia will also be wearing iconic Denim pieces and will
appear at the end of the show as a symbol of the real identity behind the brand. !
! Collaboration with 5 fashion bloggers and 5 Instagramers !
!5 fashion bloggers (see list below) and 5 of the most active M’A followers on Instagram are invited to the
show and offered a key Denim M’A piece that they can wear at the show. This tactic allows to create more
shareable content on influent fashion blog, increasing the awareness for the show and the new collection.
The pictures taken by the models of the fashion bloggers and Instagramers (all dressed in M’A) while
watching the show will also create content they will share on their platforms. The tactic also allows to get
closer to the M’A public by inviting some of them to the show, showing the clients they are important to the
brand and taken into consideration. !
!List of the 5 fashion bloggers invited:!
- Man Repeller / American, 831K followers on Instagram, very influent, already posted about M’A!
- Garance Doré / French, 309K followers on Instagram, very influent, already posted about M’A!
- Fashion Obscura /London, young blogger (19) and fashion student at St Martins, alternative fashion
photography and personal style. Fits M’A young and cool message.!
- She Wears Fashion / UK, 72K followers on Instagram, influent vintage fashion and lifestyle blog.!
- Anne Catherine Frey / French, 17,1K followers on Instagram, young fashion designer (20), all about
effortless beauty. !
! !Gift bags offered to every show-goers (not only first row), placed on all seats!
!Limited edition all Denim tote designed by M’A (originally exclusively for Opening Ceremony, sold with the
S/S15 look book inside) filled with M’A team’s favourite sweets (they post many pictures of chocolates
bars, cupcakes, etc. on their social platforms, see p.11) Again, a way to treat the public, make them feel
special (all of them because M’A is accessible and simple) and keep them close. The Denim bag is a
symbol of M’A’s true identity and the sweets set an unpretentious mood and add a bit of fun. !
!i-D and Dazed are invited backstage!
!Target style titles i-D and Dazed get access to the backstage of the show, take pictures and publish
consistent articles after the show. It allows to increase the chance to reach M’A’s edgy and cool target
audience. !
! Backstage Vines & Snapchats!
!M’A already opened a Snapchat account a month ago but still don’t have a Vine platform. Snapchats
(100 millions users, 70% of which are women, Digital Marketing Ramblings 2015 Statistics) and Vine (40
millions users) are rising in the digital world and offer a way to share backstage privileged moments
(through pictures and videos), in live, with the public who is not present at the show, making them feel
part of it anyway.!
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12. TACTIC 2: The Marques’Almeida
Digital Magazine
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M’A’s identity as a brand relies strongly on the designer’s
personality behind the label. For M’A, fashion is about
attitude not hemlines and it is that M’A attitude, a whole
made of many little things, that translates in the magazine,
through varied non-fashion related content and lifestyle
storytelling. Sharing this content with the reader makes them
feel included in the M’A atmosphere, that they can grasp,
understand and identify with. Content contains random
pictures M’A loves, their inspirations, pictures of the studio
and of their place, storytelling about what they do during their
free time, where they travel, what they discover, what food
they cook, what restaurants they like, what events/concerts/
exhibitions they go to, what movies and documentaries they
watch, what book they read, etc. !
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The magazine is monthly and contains vertical links to the
online store (“Where to buy this look”, “Discover the M’A
piece that this documentary inspired”), which make it easier
for the client to buy and drive sales. However, at least one
person from the M’A team must be dedicated to writing the
magazine and monitoring reactions to gather feedback. The
“massive increase in sales that has seen the
Marques'Almeida workforce triple” (Fashion Telegraph, 2015)
in 2014 should allow it. If it works online, the duo can
consider have it printed as well. !
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13. TACTIC 3: The Under M’A A/W15 Event
M’A for Vogue about their last event in 2013, a pop-up store in Hackney:!
!“We absolutely love selling directly to our clients and the group of friends we created because of that.
We're obsessed with 'the girl' rather than the product actually, so to see and get to know who all these
girls are that relate to the Marques' Almeida aesthetic and have responded to it as strongly as we have is
one of the best surprises of having our own label. That's why we decided to do the pop-up store, because
we want to give more girls the opportunity to own a piece and the opportunity to contact with the brand a
bit more directly.” (Vogue, 2013)!
!The event is essential to respond to our objective to make contact with the public and make them feel
M’A’s unique atmosphere.!
! Venue: warehouse in Shoreditch, The Village Underground, urban, raw, old, lived-in spirit. The
place is decorated to match the Frida Kahlo/Christian Lacroix aesthetic that dominates the A/W15
collection, which creates a mix between old/raw/lived-in and new/precious/intricate aesthetics to
connate the A/W15 collection (see pictures on the next page). One of the key piece, the brocade
jacket, is a good example of this conceptual duality: a classic jeans jacket shape made with intricate
brocade fabric, which mix allow to keep that denim raw vibe.!
! Collaboration with graffiti artists, Graffiti Life London artists are painting in live a mural graffiti
representing M’A”s A/W15 collection based on its old/new duality. The graffiti is a mixed of M’A
inspirations for their collection: Corinne Day (attitude, postures, shapes) and Frida Kahlo (colours,
fabrics). The painting will represent M’A’s muse Sofia Marques in a posture inspired by Corrine
Day’s shoot, “England’s Dreaming” with model Rosemary Ferguson, lying on a sofa (see picture p.
15). That’s for the “old” vibe. As for the new, Sofia will be wearing M’A’s colourful intricate key pieces
from A/W15 and the wall paper as well as the sofa will have the Frida Kahlo looks and prints from
her cover picture in Vogue (see picture p. 15).!
!A/W15 concept video starring Sofia projected on the walls. The video is inspired by an existing
video showing Sofia meandering in an old empty house that is very empowering and conveys a real
atmosphere (watch the video p.16). However, the video was not well promoted and was not used (it
was only posted on Facebook). The video will then be released and watchable on M’A’s social
platforms and (updated) website. !
! M’A Pop-up Store with pieces from the A/W15 collections and past collections. The warehouse is big
and can welcome the pop-up store in a quiet room. The store allow to drive sales and direct contact
with buyers.!
!MAC Stand offering to make people up in the M’A style. M’A often collaborates with MAC (Terry
Barber) for their shows and a collaboration can lighten the costs of the event. !
! 1H Warpaint concert. Warpaint is an American indie rock band formed in 2004, on tour in the UK in
2015. The band is composed of 4 young girls with grungy 90’s nostalgic style in their looks and
music. The band is popular among the targeted audience. The girls will be wearing one M’A A/W15
piece that they will style and mix with their grungy clothes. They will be paid and offered the clothes.
The rest of the time a DJ will play a list of M’A (mostly 90’s) favourite songs. Here is the list ( by Clash
Music Magazine, 2012).!
! The M’A duo are present to greet and get to know old and new fans of the brand.!
! M’A’s photographers duo Masha Mel are present, dressed in M’A as brand ambassadors and
taking pictures that will be posted on M’A’s social media after the event. !
! Invitations to the event are post cards featuring the A/W15 collection’s inspirations: Corinne day,
Juergen Teller’s photographs, Frida Kahlo pictures, etc. Targeted style titles Dazed, i-D, Wonderland
and Tank are invited to cover the event. !

16. Link to video

17. MEDIA PLAN!
Tactic 1: The Show Revisited!
Send invitations to guests list - send press release to targeted
media (Dazed, i-D, Tank, Wonderland + Vogue, Elle) - send
invitations and key Denim pieces to the 5 fashion bloggers and
the 5 Instagramers. !
Announce the presence of fashion bloggers and Instagramers at
the show via social media a few days before the show
(Facebook, Twitter).!
Create a #M’ALuckyfew where bloggers and Instagramers can
post their own pictures and videos of the show in live.!
Create a Facebook album grouping the pictures of the public
taken by the models and tag known faces - Posts some of the
best pictures on Twitter and Instagram as well.!
i-D and Dazed are invited backstage: i-D gets an inclusive
interview with Sofia, Dazed follows Terry Barber and Duffy in the
make-up and hair styling processes.!
Monitor press coverage and reactions after the show on
traditional and digital media.!
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Tactic 2: The Marques Almeida Digital Magazine!
Announce the launch of the digital magazine on every social
platforms with direct links leading to it. !
Promote it on Marques’Almeida website.!
Send press releases to targeted media about the magazine & the
Under M’A A/W15 Event. !
Monitor visits and reactions to the launch on social media. !
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Tactic 3: The Under M’A A/W15 Event!
Send invitations to guest lists and to the targeted press.!
Tank gets an interview with Warpaint and Wonderland gets a
story about the graffiti and Marta Marques explaining its
symbolic.!
Announce the event on every social media at least one month in
advance and write follow-up posts after that. !
Create a Facebook event (allow to estimate the number of
people coming) - create a hashtag #UnderMaEvent.!
Create a Facebook album with pictures of the event.!
Monitor reactions on social media and press coverage after the
event.!
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19. RATIONALE
The tactics of the campaign respond to and fulfil our objectives as following:!
! Objective 1: To secure 4 stories in style titles like Dazed, i-D, Wonderland, Tank & 2 blog articles
on fashion blogs like Man Repeller and Garance Doré. !
!All three tactics (the show, the digital magazine launch and the M’A event) are likely to be covered by the
targeted fashion magazines as all tactics offer different story angles that correspond to each publication.
Dazed gets a “behind the scenes” backstage story at the show and is likely to cover the M’A underground
event with the Warpaint concert and the graffitis. i-D gets an exclusive interview with M’A’s muse Sofia
Marques at the show and exclusive pictures of the models backstage. Wonderland gets on “arty story” of
Marques’Almeida with an interview with the graffiti artists at the event and an interview of Marta Marques to
explain their vision behind this initiative. Tank is interested in contemporary music and gets an interview with
Warpaint. Plus, Tank will be drawn by the singularity of M’A’s event in itself. The Man Repeller and Garance
Doré are very influent blogs where M’A can secure a post by having them at the show, dressed in M’A pieces
and photographed by M’A models. Wonderland (2015): Right now, the only thing anybody wants to be
photographed in is Marques’Almeida.!
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Objective 2: To create more visibility for the brand on social media by using new tools and
collaborating with fan/followers and influent bloggers.!
!The tactics allow to create shareable content that will spread on social media and increase the brand and
collection’s visibility. Having the models taking pictures of the show-goers during the show, having influent
bloggers (Man Repeller and Garance Doré) to share them on their social platforms, having M’A instagramer
fans posting pictures and videos of the show live through #LuckyFew, creating new and popular backstage
content through Snapchat and Vine, launching a digital magazine promoted on M’A’s social platforms and
grouping pictures from the M’A event in a Facebook album and via #UnderM’AEvent. The tactic of having M’A
interns walking the runway at the show will also create content on social media as pictures of M’A interns
dressed in M’A on their social media gets more than average amount of likes and comments. !
! Objective 3: To establish 3 ways of making M’A’s atmosphere thicker, more palpable and making
contact with the pubic.!
!1. Sofia, her friends and M’A interns walking the runway at the show. Sofia wearing iconic Denim pieces of
the A/W15 collection embodies the importance of what Marta describes as “something that feels attainable
and reachable and kind of day-to-day”, which defines M’A’s real identity. Having this symbol at the show
creates the atmosphere that defines M’A A/W 15: a mix of the old (Sofia, raw, effortless, unrelated to
fashion, Denim) and the new (colourful brocades and Swarovski crystals).!
2. Marques’Almeida Digital Magazine. Sharing the secrets of the M’A attitude with the public allows to make
contact and allow them to identify with the brand in a non-fashion way (thanks to lifestyle varied content).!
3. Under A/W15 M’A Event. No event have been organised by M’A in the past except for a pop-up store in
Hackney in 2013. M’A’s uniqueness and singularity is what allowed M’A to stand out and its essential to
give the opportunity to the buyers to feel that uniqueness as well as the real and raw feeling around the
label. The event is not a partnership with one of M’A’s retail partners because M’A needs its own unique
place and universe.!
!The concept of the campaign, a mix between M’A’s essence of raw, grungy spirit and new inspirations that
build the brand’s evolution is present all along and is materialised in the campaign’ s concepts, symbols and
aesthetics. The duality old spirit/new aesthetics that characterise the collection dominates the space and
allows to convey the campaign’s key message in a consistent way: M’A is evolving in terms of fabrics, designs
and inspirations but all of it will always been wrapped into the rawness, realism and lived-in spirit of M’A’s DNA.
The old/new spirit and aesthetic of A/W15 can be felt through :!
!the show with Sofia dressed in Denim walking the runway in contrast with the inspiration and fabrics
characterising the rest of the clothing.!
the bloggers invited: three of them are young, underground fashion bloggers or fashion students from St
Martins in contrast with the other two (Man Repeller, Garance Doré) who are influent and “fashionable”.!
the venue of the event: an old, underground warehouse in contrast with a colourful, precious decoration
matching the new fabrics and colours of the A/W15 collection. !
the graffiti-in-live in contrast with a MAC makeup stand.!
the mural graffiti in itself representing a mix of old and new M’A inspirations.!
the Warpaint concert being a contemporary, young group but conveying a 90’s nostalgia in style, attitude and
music. !