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"I AM THE LUXURY COLLECTION" GLOBAL BRAND CAMPAIGN

Entered in Brand Awareness Campaign, Brand Identity, Branded Content, CTV/OTT, Hospitality, Medium-Length Video, Paid & Amplification

Objective

For decades, The Luxury Collection was beloved for its 130+ extraordinary, one-of-a-kind hotels and resorts across 40 countries—each impeccably curated and deeply rooted in culture, heritage, and place. Iconic properties like The Gritti Palace or Hotel Imperial were admired individually, yet the global brand behind them remained largely invisible.

The challenge was not just awareness, but also identity.

In a world where modern luxury travelers seek meaning, immersion, and cultural connection—not sameness—The Luxury Collection faced a pivotal question:

How do you unify a portfolio built on individuality without diluting what makes each place singular?

“I Am The Luxury Collection” answers that question by doing something the brand had never done before: giving the Collection a confident, human voice while highlighting and protecting each property's soul.

The campaign was designed to:

At its core, the campaign reframes the brand not just as a portfolio of hotels, but as a living expression of global culture—told through human stories, places, and contradictions.

Strategy

To address these objectives, we built

A Global Creative Platform with a Human POV:  "I Am The Luxury Collection”

Hero Film: A Beautiful Contradiction

The emotional centerpiece of the campaign is a 60-second cinematic anthem filmed across continents. Rather than forcing uniformity, we embraced a unifying truth - At the heart of The Luxury Collection is a paradox: no two properties are alike, but they all belong

The film celebrates the beauty found in contrast, 

This concept—Beautiful Contradiction—captures the essence of The Luxury Collection: a brand defined not by sameness, but by the harmony of difference.

Justin Theroux as The Curator

In the brand’s first-ever celebrity-led campaign, award-winning actor and filmmaker Justin Theroux serves not as a spokesperson, but as a curator.

Worldly, witty, and warmly self-aware, Theroux embodies the brand’s spirit—bringing approachability and personality to luxury storytelling. His suite of short films (“Bathtub,” “Bell,” “Breakfast,”) injects humor, humanity, and charm into a category often dominated by distance and formality.

Distinctive Social Assets with a unified design system and iconic visual frame architecture

This became the largest campaign in the brand’s history, a 360° ecosystem:

Every execution reinforced one idea:
One brand. Many stories. Hundreds of ways to be one-of-a-kind.

Results

The Campaign Launch on 11/24/2025, and with three months in the market

Qualitative Breakthrough

Guests, associates, and partners responded with a shared sentiment:
The Luxury Collection finally sounds like itself.

Warm, intelligent, and human, the creative broke through the sameness of traditional luxury hospitality marketing

“I Am The Luxury Collection” redefines global luxury marketing by solving a challenge most heritage portfolios never do: unifying scale without sacrificing soul. Instead of imposing sameness, the campaign turns individuality into the strategy—elevating 130+ distinct hotels into a coherent, human, and culturally resonant brand voice. Through cinematic storytelling, a warm and unexpected celebrity curator, and a fully integrated global ecosystem, the work breaks category conventions of distant, transactional luxury marketing. More than a campaign, it is a brand transformation—one that delivers measurable gains in brand comprehension while creating emotional connection across continents. In a moment when luxury is being rewritten around meaning, culture, and authenticity, this work sets a new benchmark for how modern brands speak, connect, and endure.

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Entrant Company / Organization Name

THE LUXURY COLLECTION

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