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You've Come a Long Way, Baby: Fashion Portrait
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You've Come a Long Way, Baby: Fashion Portrait

Virginia Slims · 1970

Agency
Leo Burnett
Campaign
You've Come a Long Way, Baby

Analysis

A fashion portrait sits beside the slogan and two cigarette packs. The ad links the brand with women’s changing social position.

“You've come a long way, baby.”
Identity appealFashion imageryProduct placement

Why it worked

The portrait supplies a confident identity that the slogan connects with the product. The ad shows how a brand can borrow the language of social change.

Lesson

Check whether the identity promised by an ad has a sound connection with the product.

Image source

© Virginia Slims. Shown for study and commentary.

Not affiliated with or endorsed by Virginia Slims.