Prada is introducing an interactive component for its fall 2024 campaign.
The design house is unveiling its Miranda July Hotline as part of the fall campaign, titled “Now That We’re Here.” July, the American filmmaker, artist and writer, was enlisted last month to help create the campaign.
Images featuring stars like Hunter Scafer, Letitia Wright, Damson Idris, Harris Dickinson and Yili Ma include the number for the hotline. The images will be seen via billboards in various cities globally starting Monday.
The images encourage people to call into the hotline where they can interact with pre-recorded scripts recorded by July herself. The responses are generated in response to the conversation with the caller and are randomly selected.
An image from Prada’s fall 2024 campaign.
Courtesy of Prada
“Spanning from ironic advice to seemingly friendly conversation to surreal and unexpected scenarios, each interaction tells an individual story determined by interaction — another form of dialogue,” a statement from Prada said. “In July’s own words and her own voice, this Prada hotline combines technology with gestures to the analogue. It also seems to lift the lid on the campaign itself — allowing an audience to ‘listen in’ to the fragmented conversations hinted at.”
The campaign was photographed by Willy Vanderperre and creative directed by Fernando Verderi.
“The images of their interchanges nod simultaneously to the fiction of different eras, of narrative cinema and the verity of documentary,” Prada said in a statement when the campaign debuted. “Every Prada collection is a conversation, an interplay of contrasting opinions and viewpoints, both within the designs themselves, and in their rapport with their audience. Fashion is an exchange.”
