Christopher Arce
H&M — Los Angeles Brand Campaign

H&M — Los Angeles / 2025

Los Angeles Brand Campaign

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A custom localized brand campaign created for H&M's Los Angeles market, spanning talent, creative, media, retail, PR, partnerships, and experiential activation.

01 — The Brief

H&M needed to feel native to Los Angeles — not a global campaign dropped into a new market. The opportunity was to build a city-specific brand platform that earned cultural credibility while driving measurable traffic and sales across the market's store fleet.

02 — The Idea

Build the campaign from the city outward. Local talent, local photography, local venues and local media, held together by a single creative idea that let every touchpoint — OOH, retail, social, press, experiential — read as one story told in an LA accent.

03 — The Experience

  • A locally shot campaign shoot with LA-based talent, stylists and crew, supplying imagery for OOH, digital, retail windows and social.
  • High-impact outdoor across key corridors, sequenced with retail moments so the city read as one continuous campaign.
  • Talent and creator partnerships activated around launch week, with content captured live rather than produced in isolation.
  • In-store programming that converted awareness into footfall, tied to market-level traffic and sales reporting.
CAMPAIGN PHOTOGRAPHY — TUE NGUYEN — CHEF & AUTHOR

04 — My Role

  • Campaign strategy and creative development
  • Experiential concepting and production
  • Agency and vendor management
  • Talent and partnership strategy
  • Cross-functional leadership across media, PR and retail
  • Budget management and measurement

05 — The Impact

The campaign lifted brand metrics across the market while delivering the retail results the business was briefed on.

+14%

Ad recall

+9%

Purchase intent

581M+

MEDIA IMPRESSIONS

1.9B

PRESS REACH

1.1M

Social engagements

474K

Social Media Value

06 — Gallery

CAMPAIGN PHOTOGRAPHY — AMELIA GRAY, JULEZ SMITH, DELILAH BELLE — CELEBRITY TALENT
CAMPAIGN PHOTOGRAPHY — AMELIA GRAY, JULEZ SMITH, DELILAH BELLE — CELEBRITY TALENT
CAMPAIGN PHOTOGRAPHY — TUE NGUYEN — CHEF & AUTHOR
CAMPAIGN PHOTOGRAPHY — TUE NGUYEN — CHEF & AUTHOR
CAMPAIGN PHOTOGRAPHY — BRANDON & SAVANNAH HUDSON — MUSICAL DUO
CAMPAIGN PHOTOGRAPHY — BRANDON & SAVANNAH HUDSON — MUSICAL DUO

Credits

  • Brand & Experiential LeadChristopher Arce
  • Creative ProductionGoldbox Creative
  • Media & PRChristopher Arce & Cross-functional teams
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