Global Fashion Brands

Style, Luxury and History

Edited by Joseph H. Hancock II, Doctor Gjoko Muratovski, Veronica Manlow, Anne Peirson-Smith

Publication date:

15 August 2014

Publisher

Intellect Books

Dimensions:

229x178mm
7x9"

ISBN-13: 9781783203574

BOOK DESCRIPTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Fashion branding is more than just advertising. It helps to encourage the purchase and repurchase of consumer goods from the same company. While historically fashion branding has primarily focused on consumption and purchasing decisions, recent scholarship suggests that branding is a process that needs to be analysed from a style, luxury and historical pop cultural view using critical, ethnographic, individualistic or interpretive methods.

In this collection, the contributors explore the meaning behind fashion branding in the context of the contested power relations underpinning the production, marketing and consumption of style and fashion as part of our global culture.

Introduction

Part I
From the Editors

Rebranding American men’s heritage fashions through the use of visual merchandising, symbolic props and masculine iconic memes historically found in popular culture – Kevin Matthews, Joseph H. Hancock, II and Zhaohui Gu

Producing and consuming American mythologies: Branding in mass market fashion firms – D. J. Huppatz and Veronica Manlow

Co-branding strategies for luxury fashion brands: Missoni for Target – Edwina Luck, Gjoko Muratovski and Lauren Hedley

Comme on down and Choos your shoes: A study of consumer responses to the use of guest fashion designers by H&M as a co-branded fashion marketing strategy – Anne Peirson-Smith

Part II
Brands, Style and Mass Market

ModCloth: A case study in co-creative branding strategies – Kendra Lapolla

Juicy (contradiction) couture: The Starburst Prom Gown and female teens’ appropriation and emotional branding of a candy label – Tara Chittenden

It’s all inside: J.C. Penney and ‘cut ‘n’ paste’ as branding practice – Myles Ethan Lascity

Effortless consumption: The ‘Anthropologie’ of a brand-focused online shopping community – Lauren Downing Peters and Anya Kurennaya

Visible status: Couture and designer abayas – Christina Lindholm

Part III
Brands in the Luxury Market

Managing an iconic old luxury brand in a new luxury economy: Hermès handbags in the US market – Tasha L. Lewis and Brittany Haas

Communicating brand image through fashion designers’ homes, flagship stores and ready-to-wear collections – Osmud Rahman and Lauren Petroff

Leveraging designer creativity for impact in luxury brand management: An in-depth case study of designers in the Louis Vuitton Möet Hennessy (LVMH) brand portfolio – RayeCarol Cavender and Doris H. Kincade

Narratives of Italian craftsmanship and the luxury fashion industry: Representations of Italianicity in discourses of production – Alice Dallabona

Part IV
Brands in Historical Context

Do contemporary luxury brands adhere to historical paradigms of luxury? –Shaun Borstrock

The ‘age of enchantment’, the ‘age of anxiety’: Fashion symbols and brand persona – Linda Matheson

Louis XIV, ‘Le marketing, c’est moi’ – Ellen Anders