Pharrell, Beckham and Rita Ora Question Idea of 'Superstar' in Global Adidas Campaign
Stylish Black and White Film and Print Ads Promote Relaunch of Superstar Shoe
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What better way for Adidas to promote its Originals Superstar shoe than getting superstars to talk about superstardom? The brand rounded up David Beckham, Pharrell Williams, Rita Ora and basketball player Damian Lillard to share their thoughts on what being a superstar means in this stylish 90-second black and white film, from Johannes Leonardo and Swiss director Karim Huu Do of Caviar. In the film, the stars question what superstardom is -- is it having a stylist, having everyone know you by your first name, people reading about what you had for breakfast? As you've probably guessed, the answer's no. The campaign also features print ads of the celebrities redefining the idea of "superstar."
"We wanted to be authentic to the notion of superstar and to do that we had to subvert the perception of it," with the idea being that real stars work for an audience of one -- themselves, Johannes Leonardo co-founder Leo Premutico told AdAge. "It's easy these days to equate superstardom with fame and the amount of view counts, but the most important creative quality is courage."
Read more about the campaign over at AdAge.com.
Credits
- Date
- Jan 09, 2015
- Brand :
- Adidas
- Client :
- Adidas
- Agency :
- Johannes Leonardo
- Chief Creative Officer :
- Jan Jacobs
- Chief Creative Officer :
- Leo Premutico
- Executive Creative Director :
- Tom Martin
- Executive Creative Director :
- Julian Schreiber
- Creative Director :
- Ferdinando Verderi
- Creative :
- Matt Edwards
- Creative :
- Wes Phelan
- Business Director :
- Carter Collins
- Broadcast Executive Producer :
- Cedric Gairard
- Print Executive Producer :
- Maria Perez
- Integrated Producer :
- Peisin Yang Lazo
- Strategist :
- Jennifer Colman
- Designer :
- Andrea Gustafson
- Designer :
- David Kerr
- Designer :
- Annette Lay
- Production Company :
- Caviar
- Director :
- Karim Huu Do
- Executive Producer :
- Jasper Thomlinson
- Executive Producer :
- Michael Sagol
- Executive Producer :
- Kim Dellara
- Head of Production :
- Kelly Bowen
- Producer :
- Richard Weager
- Director, Photography :
- Matthias Montero
- U.S. Production Designer :
- Mark Snelgrove
- U.K. Production Designer :
- Mikey Hollywood
- Editing :
- Rock Paper Scissors
- Editor :
- Biff Butler
- Assistant Editor :
- Parker Whipple
- Producer :
- Meredith Nazzaro
- Executive Producer :
- Eve Kornblum
- Visual Effects :
- A52
- Visual Effects Supervisor :
- Patrick Murphy
- CG Supervisor :
- Andrew Romatz
- Executive Producer :
- Jennifer Sofio Hall
- Executive Producer :
- Patrick Nugent
- Producer :
- Scott Boyajan
- Flame Artist :
- Patrick Murphy
- Flame Artist :
- Stefan Gaillot
- Flame Artist :
- Steve Wolff
- CG Artist :
- Andy Wilcoff
- CG Artist :
- Vivian Su
- CG Artist :
- Joao Rosa
- CG Artist :
- Miguel Salek
- CG Artist :
- Christian Sanchez
- CG Artist :
- Cody Woodward
- Rotoscope :
- Tiffany Germann
- Rotoscope :
- Cathy Shaw
- Rotoscope :
- Robert Shaw
- Tracking :
- Joe Chiechi
- Motion Graphics :
- Elastic
- Director :
- Patrick Clair
- Color :
- Company 3
- Colorist :
- Tom Poole
- Music :
- Soundtrk
- Composer :
- Cliff Martinez
- Sound Design :
- Q Department
- Composer :
- Drazen Bosnjak
- Producer :
- Zack Rice
- Producer :
- Guin Frehling
- Sound Mix :
- Sonic Union
- Audio Post Mixer :
- Steve Rosen
- U.S. Stylist :
- Heidi Bivens
- U.S. Stylist Assistant :
- Angela Varela
- U.S. Stylist Assistant :
- Amanda Merten
- U.S. Makeup :
- Samelia Miller
- U.K. Costume Designer :
- Hannah Edwards
- Costume Assistant :
- Verity Lane
- UK Makeup and Hair Stylist :
- Lu Hinton
- U.K. Makeup Assistant :
- Eve Coles
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