Drayton Maclean Mayers
Memphis, TN
DRAYTON MAYERS lives between hospitality, culture, media, and creative production. His work exists at the intersection of luxury dining, experiential storytelling, digital strategy, and contemporary culture. He moves fluidly between the worlds of culinary operations, fashion, entertainment, editorial, and brand marketing, translating ideas into experiences that feel both immediate and enduring.
He understands how people gather.
How brands communicate.
How culture moves.
DRAYTON has built a career creating environments, campaigns, and experiences that connect audiences to brands in ways that feel personal, elevated, and culturally aware. From large-scale hospitality activations and luxury events to digital campaigns, editorial storytelling, and creative consulting, his work bridges operational precision with creative instinct.
He began in editorial and media, writing across fashion and culture before expanding into brand strategy, experiential production, and hospitality operations. That foundation in storytelling continues to shape everything he creates today, whether producing a dinner, building a campaign, consulting on brand positioning, or developing guest experiences for globally recognized companies.
His perspective is informed by years working across creative industries: fashion, hospitality, luxury lifestyle, emerging technology, and media. The result is an approach that feels both strategic and deeply human, balancing aesthetics, narrative, logistics, and audience psychology.
DRAYTON helps brands understand not just where culture is, but where it’s moving next.
Because today, experience is everything.
And the brands people remember are the ones that make them feel something.
Clients
Adidas, Diageo, Dior, Google, ME+EM, SUSHISAMBA, Sweetgreen, Tropa, Vanity Fair, Very Thai.