Ashley Rudder®
Case 01 · Clé de Peau Beauté × Martha Stewart · HAUS OF SÔS

A luxury house, fluent in the feed.

A heritage house on TikTok, at full price. The $75 hero concealer, ranked #1 in its category.

RoleFounder, HAUS OF SÔS
BrandClé de Peau Beauté
PlatformTikTok · Instagram
RecognitionCannes Lions shortlist
$75 #1 A full-price prestige concealer, top of its category. No discount, no dilution.
01 · The Challenge

Native enough to win. Premium enough to justify $75.

The brief was sales, not awareness. Launch the hero concealer on TikTok and move product, without touching price or diluting the house.

Discount and you cheapen the house. Stay aloof and the platform ignores you. The work had to do both at once.

The tension Full price
Full house
Native feed
All at once
02 · The Strategy

We read the archetype before the language caught up.

By 2021 the feed had fallen for a new icon: older, self-expressive, culturally fluent. When Martha's poolside selfie broke the internet, the audience was already primed for the figure we wanted to put a luxury concealer on.

The repeatable play: name the moment, translate it into native platform language, cast it to the right personality. Martha was not decoration on the idea. She was the idea.

03 · The Sound

We authored the trend. We did not rent it.

Riding the summer's transformation trend meant licensing the song behind it. Instead we commissioned our own: same energy, same cadence, fully owned.

What we built Original "Worth My While" remix
Custom VFX transformation
Placed in TikTok's music library
Registered with ASCAP · owned IP
04 · The Results

One summer. Category dominance.

3B+Impressions generated
78MViews across TikTok and Instagram
222%Above beauty benchmark
43Organic press features
#1Hero concealer, Feb 2022
No.1Top-viewed landing page in brand history
12International awards
Cannes Lions shortlist
We made a heritage house the most native thing on the feed.
The takeaway

Prestige can win the feed. On its own terms.

Cannes Lions shortlist 12 international awards Owned sound IP
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