Our advertising has a broad impact
on many people in all 55 sales
countries. Our advertising policy
commits us to featuring models with
different looks, styles and cultural
backgrounds. Of course, we want
our advertising to inspire as many
people as possible and we target a
wide and diverse target group. The
challenge we face is to balance individual
and cultural perceptions, customer
demands, diversity of models,
looks and attitudes and at the same
time produce high-fashion images
and messages that support current
trends and our customer offering in
an inspiring way – without conveying
any specific ideal or encouraging a
choice of lifestyle. We try to take all
of these aspects into consideration
right from the start when planning
our campaigns and constantly
improve
our internal routines and
systems to ensure this. For example,
we follow multi-tier check systems for each image and produce an even
larger variety of images at each shoot.
Accordingly, during 2014, we received
a lot of positive feedback on our
campaigns. However, there may
always be perspectives and global
developments that we can’t foresee.
During 2014, we also received comments
from some of our customers
that one look featured in an H&M
campaign during the summer
reminded them of the look of female
Peshmerga fighters. While the design
for this product was developed long
before the developments that led to
broad media attention on the Pesh-
merga, it has naturally never been our
intention to make such a connection.