{"id":159135,"date":"2025-02-12T19:34:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T18:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/?p=159135"},"modified":"2025-02-13T10:16:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T09:16:55","slug":"chinese-new-year-what-makes-a-luxury-campaign-successful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/chinese-new-year-what-makes-a-luxury-campaign-successful\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese New Year: what makes a luxury campaign successful? <img class=paid src=\/paid.png>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Both a chestnut tree and a martingale of luxury, Chinese New Year always offers a pretext for the launch of capsule collections and dedicated communication campaigns. But far from the traditional but simplistic imagery of auspicious red and gold, some luxury houses have refined their intercultural knowledge to the point of learning from their mistakes and delivering campaigns that are both authentic and daring. A detailed review of two \u201cflawless campaigns\u201d from the 2025 edition with Ana\u00efs Bournonville, expert in the Chinese market.<\/h4>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Keeping it simple is often more complicated than it seems.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the<b> Chinese lunisolar calendar<\/b>, the year<b> 2025<\/b> is <b>the Year of the Wood Snake, characterized by its sophistication, harmony and moderation.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While most <b>luxury brands<\/b> have released limited edition items and associated campaigns, <b>two of them have shone through their simplicity and authenticity, <\/b>according to Ana\u00efs Bournonville, CEO of AB Advisory and columnist for Luxus Plus.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Learning the hard way<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Before looking at what makes a successful Chinese New Year campaign, it is worth looking at what, on the contrary, makes <b>a failed campaign.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In <b>2018<\/b>, Burberry wanted to develop <b>a campaign celebrating the family in its own way<\/b> for Chinese New Year. Expecting to receive the approval of local populations, it was ultimately an outcry that the tartan brand had inadvertently triggered on social networks. Some internet users saw in the composition a sad <b>image, even a latent war of succession<\/b>, where the grandchildren want to kill the grandmother to get the inheritance&#8230;<b>a far cry from Confucian loyalty to the home and the importance of the family in China.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_159139\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-159139\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-159139 size-large\" title=\"Chinese New Year Campaign Failure Burberry 2018\" src=\"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Chinese_New_Year_Campaign_Failure_Burberry_2018-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese New Year Campaign Failure Burberry 2018\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Chinese_New_Year_Campaign_Failure_Burberry_2018-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Chinese_New_Year_Campaign_Failure_Burberry_2018-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Chinese_New_Year_Campaign_Failure_Burberry_2018-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Chinese_New_Year_Campaign_Failure_Burberry_2018-1536x1229.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Chinese_New_Year_Campaign_Failure_Burberry_2018-480x384.jpg 480w, https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Chinese_New_Year_Campaign_Failure_Burberry_2018-750x600.jpg 750w, https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Chinese_New_Year_Campaign_Failure_Burberry_2018.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-159139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Burberry&#8217;s 2018 Chinese New Year campaign proved to be a real failure <b>\u00a9 <\/b>Burberry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this 2018 Burberry campaign, we have a striking example of<b> a brand that wanted to overemphasize its artistic creativity by breaking the rules<\/b>. This new vision of the family, overly fashion-oriented and without a smile, contrasted sharply with the joyful nature of this holiday and even conveyed an austere, even negative image,\u201d explains Ana\u00efs Bournonville.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, things that can be improved can be improved, like in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Burberry or local know-how in the spotlight<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\t\t<section data-elementor-type=\"section\" data-elementor-id=\"113401\" class=\"elementor elementor-113401 elementor-101048\" data-elementor-post-type=\"elementor_library\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6ff873b e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6ff873b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;gradient&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div 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