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De Nene · Portugal · DTC label

De Nene · Portugal · DTC label


An editorial campaign, without a shoot.

A full drop campaign for a small Portuguese label — concept, art direction, copy and every asset it needed to launch, produced from one specification.

4.96×

ROAS on the campaign creative

€15.52

Per purchase, vs €24.54 for a product shot

31

Frames across four channels

What's left is you

The idea

Editorial imagery requires a shoot.

Match the wall to the garment until only the person is left.

Insight

A small label’s problem is rarely the idea. It’s the cost of turning it into polished imagery.

Device

Paint the wall the exact shade of the garment, so skin and the logo are the only things that survive.

Line

“What’s left is you.” Quiet-luxury neutrals, art-directed to disappear.

Remove every contrast and the clothing becomes the person.

The hero

Remove every contrast and the clothing becomes the person.

The garment, the wall and the light are the same value, so the eye has nothing to hold onto except skin, posture and the mark.


Tonal match, not tonal range

One soft source, no shadow edge

The pair

The device has to survive a second body in frame.

An idea that only works on one model isn’t a campaign system. Two people, same tonal rule, and the frame still holds.


Casting held across the set

Same grade, same wall, same lens

The device has to survive a second body in frame.
Change the colour, keep the rule.

The second colourway

Change the colour, keep the rule.

Grey marl or sand, wall or studio — the system is the tonal match, not the shade. Which means the label can extend it to any future drop.


A repeatable rule

Not one lucky frame they can’t reproduce

The range

Every piece in the drop shot to the same standard.

Small labels usually have one good hero image and a pile of inconsistent product shots. Here the whole range sits at the same level.


31 frames across the full drop

One specification behind all of them

Every piece in the drop shot to the same standard.

One campaign · four channels

Everything a label needs to launch a drop.

Studio, street, e-commerce and paid — produced together from one specification, so the campaign doesn’t fall apart the moment it leaves Instagram.

Studio

The tonal rule, controlled


Street

The same world, out of the studio


E-commerce

Packshots that match the campaign


Paid

Built to carry type and a price


A/B test · Meta · 1–15 May 2026

We tested the idea against a plain product shot. The idea won.

Two weeks, €645 split almost evenly, optimised for website purchases. Same budget, same audience.


4.96×

ROAS · the campaign creative

3.10×

ROAS · plain studio shot

37%

Cheaper per purchase

€2,605

Total purchase value on €645

VersionROASPer purchasePurchasesValueCTR
Version A · The Vanish Winner4.96×€15.5221€1,6172.84%
Version B · Plain product3.10×€24.5413€9881.91%

E-commerce — the part nobody puts in a portfolio

Product-page assets, rebuilt from the real garments.

The campaign gets attention; the packshots take the money. Both were made from the same specification, so the product page looks like the ad that sent them there.

On-model packshot, pure white
Ghost mannequin packshot

The workflow — Figma Weave

This is the actual production line.

Not a prompt in a box. Every garment runs the same graph — the label’s own photograph in, the mark and the weave held as fixed references, then crop, upscale and grade as separate signed-off steps. That is why 31 frames match instead of 31 frames nearly matching.

The Figma Weave graph behind the De Nene packshots

One graph, re-run per garment — which is what makes it a system rather than a lucky prompt

The specification

Four rules that make it usable.

A pretty image a label can’t put on a product page is worthless. These are the constraints that made the set commercial.

The result

A campaign a small label could not have shot.

31 finished frames across studio, street, e-commerce and paid, from one specification and the label’s own garment photographs. Tested head to head against a plain product shot, the campaign creative returned 4.96× ROAS at €15.52 per purchase — 37% cheaper than the product shot.

What I did

Campaign concept · Art direction · Copywriting · AI production · E-commerce imagery · Paid assets · Creative testing

Role

Concept, art direction, copy & AI production

Scope

Full drop launch · Portugal