Once upon a time, Decoded co-founder Steve Henry tried to overtake the power of American denim advertising with a few joints in a south London park.
To stray from the benchmark of jeans advertising at the time, Henry decided the campaign for Pepe Jeans should break from the typical conventions of the genre that existed thanks to Bargle Bogle Hegarty’s creative forays for Levi Strauss.
The team swapped Americana and boy meets girl for a group of average-looking English people on Tooting Common, and got them stoned to get them laughing.
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Source: The Drum
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