Ashley Rudder®
Case 02 · M·A·C Cosmetics · Fashion Week

$20K backstage. $200M launch.

Global Director of Digital Content and Artistry. Four fashion capitals, six seasons of M·A·C TV.

RoleGlobal Director, Digital Content & Artistry
BrandM·A·C Cosmetics
CitiesNew York · London · Milan · Paris
CadenceBi-annual · 6 seasons
$20K $200M A backstage content program seeded Powder Kiss, which booked $200M in revenue inside two months.
M·A·C backstage at Fashion Week Backstage · Fashion Week
01 · The Challenge

Own the backstage. Own the category.

Fashion Week is the most photographed moment in beauty, and the most contested. The brief: make M·A·C the definitive backstage voice across four capitals.

Bi-annual, fast, and native to a platform that did not wait for a press release.

The mandate Four fashion capitals
Bi-annual cadence
Backstage as the story
Best-in-class for beauty
02 · The Work

M·A·C TV, and a 250-page trend book.

I directed digital content and artistry across New York, London, Milan, and Paris. M·A·C TV became the best-in-class IGTV channel for the beauty category.

Each season produced a 250-page trend book that turned the runway into a product and content roadmap for the year.

What we built M·A·C TV · IGTV best-in-class
250-page bi-annual trend book
Four-capital production engine
Backstage-to-launch pipeline
M·A·C TV backstage content M·A·C TV backstage content M·A·C TV backstage content
03 · The Payoff

Backstage seeded Times Square.

The backstage program seeded Powder Kiss. The launch booked $200M in revenue inside two months and ran in Times Square.

A $20K content investment that paid for the category.

04 · The Results

One program. Category scale.

$200MPowder Kiss launch revenue, two months
4Fashion capitals directed
250ppBi-annual trend book
6Seasons of M·A·C TV
A $20K backstage program became a $200M launch.
The takeaway

Content as the category engine.

$200M launch IGTV best-in-class Four fashion capitals
Video · Char Alfonzo & Pellicule Films  ·  Photo · GoRunway
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