NIVEA creates fabric to make Vietnamese traditions winterproof in campaign via Happiness Saigon

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NIVEA creates fabric to make Vietnamese traditions winterproof in campaign via Happiness Saigon

To help the local people keep their traditions alive while still being sustainable, NIVEA Vietnam and Happiness Saigon launched NIVEA Tailored Care. An ongoing project where local tailors of Ha Giang are provided with a newly designed fabric to make the traditional clothes of the tribes winter proof.

 

The Hmong tribes living in the northern Vietnamese mountains all have their own traditional clothing. The unique clothes are a part of their identity, children wear them proudly when walking to school and playing outside.

But staying warm can be very challenging when the temperatures drop during winter. And the high humidity makes it even harder to preserve the body heat. This results in many Hmong people leaving their traditional jackets behind and switching to more modern clothes for winter.

The Tailored Care fabric is created by recycling aluminium packaging, such as the iconic blue NIVEA Creme tins, and turning them into a highly insulating aluminium fabric. A blue cotton layer connects the two fabrics and makes the Tailored Care fabric soft on the skin.

Alan Cerutti, Happiness Saigon CEO quotes: “After going north with NIVEA for the CSR project of last winter we saw how the local people never wore their traditional clothing when it’s cold. We’re very happy to have designed and developed a tailored solution for the children in the north of Vietnam. Tailored Care is a perfect example of how brand purpose and creativity generate value. In this case for the Hmong people as well as the NIVEA brand.”

The fabric is light, helps to keep 95% of the body warmth, is durable, breathable… and on top of continuing to keep people warm, it’s also taking care of something very precious. Their traditions.

This winter, 1,500 traditional children’s jackets have been upcycled. The project is on the path of success and plans for an extension are in the works.

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Credits:
Client: NIVEA, Beiersdorf Vietnam
Agency: Happiness Saigon
Creative Management: Alan Cerutti
Executive Creative Director: Gregory Titeca
Creative Director: Marc Richard Vander Heyden / Philip Vandenberghe
Concept Provider: Simon Pyson
Concept Provider: Iris Nuyts
Strategic Brand Planner: Viet Le
Strategic Planner: Linh To
Account Director: Khanh Pham
Account Manager: Ngoc Le
Account Executive: Tham Nguyen
Copywriter VN: Chanh Nguyen
Copywriter VN: Nhi Nguyen
Planning Manager: Yen Vu Head of Design: Caroline Ray
Design: Hung Kieu
Design: Trinh Mai
Director, D.O.P. and Editor: Simon Schuurman
Co-Director and Photographer: Thomas

NIVEA creates fabric to make Vietnamese traditions winterproof in campaign via Happiness Saigon NIVEA creates fabric to make Vietnamese traditions winterproof in campaign via Happiness Saigon