JUST HOW PROVOCATIVE, IS PROVOCATIVE?
FINE-TUNING A BRAND FOR GLOBAL EXPANSION
THE CHALLENGE:
To exploit the opportunity for this iconic brand across the EU, US, Russia and Asia, our client needed to understand how effectively Agent Provocateur could take its brand globally based on its ethos of ‘provocation’.
OUR APPROACH:
To examine such emotive issues deeper qualitative approaches were required. With significant cultural, as well as personal, associations to consider we invited women to curate their own personal experiences by taking part in retail lingerie safari’s, co-creative workshops and focus group discussions. This enabled us to develop a series of brand hypotheses and buyer behaviours as to how ‘provocation’ could be addressed
differently.
GETTING CLOSER TO THE CONSUMER THROUGH RETAIL SAFARIS:
Such immersive approaches enabled us to create a long-form dialogue with women so that they could be more expansive and explicit with us
about exotic lingerie and the Agent Provocateur brand. In taking consumers on retail safaris we were able to use real-life settings to stimulate
consumers’ thoughts on the role that lingerie plays in their lives and that of their partners’
POSITIVE OUTCOMES:
By recognising the specific role that lingerie plays across cultures and relationships we were able to guide our client on the repositioning of its product portfolio and brand communication. This, in turn, allowed the brand to ‘dial-up or dial-down’ tone on sexuality and ‘provocation’ according to changing cultural mores.
