Aje CMO project brief · Response by Deena Colman
Aje Paris Fashion Week reference

Origin as story, not aesthetic.

Australia is where Aje's optimism, ease and confidence come from, told through the founders' story and the brand's spirit, not through landscape. The visual world moves from Australian nature to the places she actually gathers: city courtyards, terraces, dining rooms and the coast anywhere in the world. Drop "Australian brand" from international copy, and leave behind outback and bush imagery, boho-resort shorthand and the always-on discounting that make Aje read as regional. Where Australian locations are used, treat them as settings for people and occasions, not as the subject, and shoot respectfully with permission on Country. Adrian and Edwina appear where authorship matters (show bows, long-form editorial, the studio, the "why" behind a collection), while the codes do the daily work, so the brand is recognisable with no founder in the frame.

Explore the thinking

The thinking behind it.

What someone should feel in Paris, New York, Dubai or Seoul: warmth, confidence and the sense of a table they'd love to be invited to, without needing to know where Aje comes from.