A spring campaign shot in February — without waiting for spring, and without anyone leaving the city.
Client
Marmalato
Role
Concept · AI production · Direction
Year
2025
Output
Stills + motion, full campaign set
The problem (a season out of sync)
What the calendar wanted
Early spring, on shelf in February
The new accessories collection had to be live before the season it belonged to. Retail moves ahead of the weather: the campaign needed light coats, bare arms, warm pavement — the whole feeling of a spring that hadn't arrived yet.
What was outside
Siberia, still deep winter
In February there is no early spring to photograph here. Getting the frames on location meant flying a crew, models and product to Europe — a budget and a schedule the launch didn't have.
So the shoot didn't happen. Every frame in this campaign is generated — and it was built in the same order a real production would have been.
Campaign · hero
Step 01
Casting, before anything else
Two faces were generated, reviewed and locked the way an agency board gets approved — front, profile, three-quarter — so the same cast could carry every frame of the campaign.
Casting · model 01Casting · model 02Approved · model 01Approved · model 02
Step 02
Then the looks
Wardrobe and the new accessories assembled onto the approved cast — a warm brown and terracotta palette, boards signed off as styling before a single campaign frame existed.
Look board · brown
Look board · beige
Step 03
Only then the location
A European street and the light of an afternoon two months ahead of the calendar. The same approved looks, moved out of the studio and into the world.