PARIS — Evian’s new vogue collaboration is prepared for its closeup.
The French mineral water model has partnered with Paris-based label Coperni on a limited-edition glass bottle that includes a constellation design that may solely be considered by glimpsing by a peephole. It marks the primary time that Evian is launching a bottle that obscures its hero product: the water.
Coperni founders Sébastien Meyer and Arnaud Vaillant stated they had been aiming for an revolutionary expertise, consistent with the model’s positioning on the intersection of vogue and expertise.
“I assumed it will be fascinating to do one thing that was not ornamental however extra interactive,” Meyer stated of the bottle, which launched on Monday on Evian’s web site and at upscale grocery retailer La Grande Epicerie in Paris.
Coperni’s limited-edition water bottle for Evian.
With viral runway reveals that featured Bella Hadid in a spray-on costume and Boston Dynamics’ robotic canine, Coperni is frequently approached for collaborations, he stated.
“I liked the concept of pushing the model into new territory and doing one thing completely different than garments. Tech innovation is a part of Coperni’s DNA, so I feel we’ve got the legitimacy to discover different fields,” Meyer added.
Evian started collaborating with vogue designers and luxurious manufacturers 16 years in the past, creating collectible bottle designs by the likes of Christian Lacroix, Jean Paul Gaultier, Virgil Abloh, Paul Smith, Diane von Furstenberg, Issey Miyake, Courrèges, Kenzo and Balmain.
For Vaillant, becoming a member of that pantheon was “a childhood dream” and permits the model to talk to a bigger viewers, at a time when it’s broadening its attain with a collection of pop-up shops in areas together with New York Metropolis, Seoul and Shanghai.
“By way of positioning, for us, it’s a unprecedented alternative as a result of we’ll contact many individuals in eating places and at dwelling, and it’s additionally probably the most reasonably priced product we’ve ever executed,” he remarked.
Dawid Borowiec, world director at Evian, stated the model tries to interact customers by the cultural moments they take pleasure in, with a particular concentrate on sports activities, specifically tennis, and vogue. Whereas Coperni is smaller than a few of the different manufacturers it has labored with, its progressive strategy appealed to the water model owned by French multinational Danone.
“We imagine it’s a tremendous home which has a brilliant future forward,” he stated. “After working restricted editions with vogue manufacturers for 15 years, we believed we’d like one thing new and I feel it labored, as a result of the version we’re working this 12 months carries much more than simply the design, there’s a deeper thought in it.”
Often, the motif is printed on the glass, however this time, the bottle was wrapped in foil dotted with small stars that sparkle when it’s lit from the underside. “We’ve additionally chosen that as a result of we’ll be selling lots a particular show of these bottles inside nice eating eating places the place we’re current,” Borowiec stated.
The bottle will likely be accessible in U.S. hospitality areas together with Tao, Soho Home and Groot Hospitality venues.
A glimpse by a small round opening, which Vaillant in comparison with the porthole of a spaceship, reveals an astronomy-inspired design incorporating key codes of each manufacturers.
Behind the scenes in the course of the shoot of the Coperni marketing campaign for Evian.
The pioneering astronomer Copernicus is proven snapping a smartphone picture of the Marquis de Lessert, the French nobleman who found the Evian water supply in 1789. A child, sporting Coperni’s signature horn hoodie, alludes to Evian’s iconic “Dwell Younger” marketing campaign. Additional pictures might be found by scanning a QR code.
The launch will likely be supported on-line by two quick movies, directed by Camille Summers-Valli, celebrating human connection. They had been shot on the Georges restaurant on the Pompidou Heart in Paris, whose future is up within the air because the museum prepares to shut in 2025 for a five-year renovation.
“It was good to immortalize the house,” stated Meyer. The duo will have fun the venture with a non-public dinner at their studio in Paris curated by French meals collective We Are Ona.
Vaillant stated he was “very proud” of Coperni’s means to steadiness stable vogue credentials with reveals which have caught the general public creativeness.
“I’m very grateful to Evian for having chosen a model like Coperni,” Vaillant stated. “It’s cool that they went for a younger model and that they gave us a lot leeway.”
