55DSL x Coca-Cola marketing collaboration

Diesel’s streetwear sub-brand 55DSL’s Japanese side has done an interesting collaboration with Coca-Cola that evolved from a simple bottle design contest. We first found these a couple of months ago while scouring Harajuku with a client (conveniently an FMCG client), and the bottles immediately grabbed our attention as we walked by.

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The design contest started with a call out for designers to make their own contour bottle for Coca-Cola, and the finalists were boiled down to fifteen choices. From there, a winning design was chosen and made into t-shirts and skate decks for sale.

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We actually thought that the bottles were cool enough on their own, but, alas, they weren’t for sale.

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Not sure if the display is still up, but the bottles were all on display for a while, as well as the winning design’s goods.

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Michael is the Editor of JapanTrends.com and Director of the CScout Japan trend consultancy.