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Nathalie Tessier
Nathalie Tessier
Fashion Business Program Leader
21 Aug 2024
upd: 15 Feb 2025
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The Power of Narrative-Driven Marketing

As the Fashion Business Program Leader at Istituto Marangoni Miami, I guide students through the intricacies of the fashion business and analyze, deconstructing and drawing lessons from the strategic choices made by top brands. A current instance that presents numerous educational prospects is the partnership between Emily from Paris Season 4 and companies such as Baccarat, Vestiaire Collective, and Ami Paris. These collaborations show off the effectiveness of brand integration in contemporary media, especially in the streaming age when more subdued story-driven approaches are replacing more overt traditional advertising.

Beyond just being a hit show, Emily in Paris provides a forum for fashion brands to interact with a worldwide audience in a genuine and inspiring setting. A perfect vehicle for brand integration, the show’s appeal is its ability to combine high fashion with relatable storytelling. Three distinct strategies were used by Ami Paris, Vestiaire Collective, and Baccarat in Season 4 to strengthen their brand identities and increase their visibility. In the current fashion landscape, let us examine how these strategies work and the lessons they can impart to effective marketing.

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Ami Paris scene in Emily in Paris
Ami Paris scene in Emily in Paris

The Soul of Parisian Chic: Ami Paris

A brand that is synonymous with modern Parisian style, Ami Paris used Emily in Paris to highlight its core values of love and friendship in a way that felt natural and authentic to the setting of the show. In the scene where the couple kisses at Roland Garros, a traditional kiss camera is used to highlight the Ami heart logo. 

Educational Perspective: This is an excellent illustration of how product placement can go beyond simple visibility for students studying fashion business. Ami Paris reached a wide audience and matched its brand with the aspirational yet approachable lifestyle that Emily in Paris advocates by integrating its products into the plot of the show. Products seem like a natural part of the narrative, which emphasizes the significance of context in marketing.

Vestiaire Collective: Highlighting the Luxury Resale Boom

The program also makes use of Vestiaire Collective, a French luxury resale platform estimated to be worth $1.77 billion by 2022, to capitalize on the expanding luxury resale market. Vestiaire Collective utilized the program as a forum for pre-owned luxury clothing and to popularize the idea of circular fashion, especially in the US market. The visual code Emily in Paris used to create content was also used by Vestiaire Collective on their Instagram page.

Educational Perspective: The collaboration comes at a perfect moment since consumers all over the world are starting to prioritize sustainability. The show gently informs viewers about the advantages of pre-owned luxury fashion by featuring characters interacting with the Vestiaire Collectives platform presenting the brand as fashionable, environmentally conscious, and profitable.

Baccarat: Fusing Fiction and Reality through Transmedia Marketing

The collaboration between Emily in Paris Season 4 and Baccarat, the producer of fine crystals, is the most fascinating example of brand integration. In the show, a made-up perfume named Heartbreak is introduced. Fans can buy it for $490 on the Baccarat website. When it comes to transmedia marketing strategies, this blurring of fiction and reality opens up new possibilities for products that move smoothly from the screen into the real world.

Educational Perspective: This creative use of product placement demonstrates the possibilities of transmedia storytelling in high-end branding. It functions as a case study for students learning how to develop immersive brand experiences that captivate customers across a variety of platforms and combine entertainment and business.

Boucheron: The Power of Screen-Time in Luxury Branding

The presence of renowned French jeweler Boucheron is among the most notable instances of this season’s marketing mastery. The company’s social media account is featured on screen during a crucial event scene, industry observers predict this could greatly boost the account’s following, which is currently 877,000 on Instagram. By blending the boundaries between the digital and television realms, this integration not only makes Boucheron more visible but also gives viewers an interactive experience that goes beyond the show. 

Educational Perspective: This tactic emphasizes how crucial it is to use screen time for luxury branding in a natural and interesting way. It shows students how to integrate on-screen content with digital platforms seamlessly to maximize brand visibility and ultimately increase consumer engagement. 

Establishing a Fresh Parameter in Luxury Marketing

Season 4 of Emily in Paris provides a guide for luxury brands to overcome the difficulties of contemporary advertising in addition to providing entertainment value. A model for engaging the elusive Gen Z and millennial consumers—who are predicted to make up 70 percent of the luxury market by 2025—is provided by the show by skillfully integrating brand narratives into its plot. The success of Emily in Paris in incorporating these brands into its story may very well establish a new benchmark for the digital era as streaming platforms and luxury brands investigate new approaches to content creation and marketing.

Meeting customers where they are is crucial in marketing and these days that means finding them on Netflix, Instagram, and other digital platforms. To effectively and creatively reach modern consumers, it is essential to comprehend how to leverage these spaces. For aspiring leaders in the fashion industry, the collaborations shown in Emily in Paris Season 4 provide priceless insights. In a world where content-driven marketing is progressively shadowing traditional advertising, knowing how to skillfully weave a brand into a story is essential. The secret is to make sure the brand feels organic and adds to the narrative rather than taking away from it as seen with Ami Paris, Vestiaire Collective, and Baccarat.

In order to prepare our students to think strategically and creatively about how they can use similar tactics in their future careers, we at Istituto Marangoni Miami place a strong emphasis on these strategies within our curriculum. Our students learn about how fashion brands can maneuver through the changing media and consumer engagement landscape by studying these real-world examples.

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