Sod this awards stuff, what we want are eco-friendly ads. Well Paris agency Fred & Farid does anyway, for organic food producer Biocoop. So it shot an integrated campaign using, among other things, wooden cameras and paint made from vegetables. ...
Read More »Fred & Farid gets close and personal for Red Kiss
You expect fireworks from Fred & Farid and the Paris agency has injected some into the pretty samey category of france advertising with this new effort for Loverdose Red Kiss from Diesel. And it does just what ti says on ...
Read More »Fred & Farid own up to scuppering ‘Omnipub’ merger
If you wondered why the Omnicom/Publicis merger, so confidently trumpeted by respective bosses John Wren and Maurice Levy last summer, foundered – it wasn’t tax problems or rows over who would be CFO. The whole thing was a prank by ...
Read More »Fred & Farid takes Diesel Erotica to China – all dressed down as an Italian porn channel
The ever-inventive Fred & Farid agency (Shanghai branch) is up to some more tricks, this time promoting clothes line Diesel Erotica in China by dressing it up as an Italian porn video. Such entertainments are frowned upon in China (officially ...
Read More »Fred & Farid redefines ‘selfies’ for Avene in China
French cosmetics firm Avene sells a lot of stuff in China (and, you may have noticed, as you try to wend your way along the plusher streets in Western Europe, the Chinese are into ‘selfies’ in a big way). So ...
Read More »Fred & Farid gets the best out of La Cruz for Schweppes
What better to liven up a Friday morning than an appearance by the fragrant Penelope Cruz? Penny hasn’t always been deployed to best effect in ads, as in an outing for Nespresso a couple of years ago. But French agency ...
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