bs_bs_banner International Journal of Consumer Studies ISSN 1470-6423 Beyond the fad: a critical review of consumer fashion involvement ijcs_1041 84..104 Iman Naderi Department of Marketing and Logistics‚ College of Business‚ University of North Texas‚ Denton‚ Texas‚ USA Keywords Consumer involvement‚ content analysis‚ fashion‚ literature review. Correspondence Iman Naderi‚ Department of Marketing and Logistics‚ College of Business‚ University of North Texas‚ 1155 Union Circle 311396
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History of Fashion Buyer Fashion buyer existed since 1940s. Thee first time fashion buyer exist was called traveling salesman. Fashion buyer existed because of there’s something different between design and manufacturing. The existed of fashion buyer because of apparel industry. Apparel industry was born because of the development of mass production. Mass Manufactured and Apparel Industry history Before the American Civil War‚ most clothing was made by tailors or by individuals or their
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Fashion plays a very important role in my life. It became apart of my life at a young age and has been apart if it every since then. Fashion to me is like Michael Jackson to pop music it’s the greatest thing ever. Every time I get a chance to read a fashion magazine I get so excited and my eyes light up as if it was christmas eve. Fashion is something that’s international it is all around the world just in different styles. It has in different looks‚ different genres‚ and different ways of representation
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Steve Mergarten Mrs. Malaspino English 12 A November 28‚ 2009 Becoming a Fashion Designer Cynthia Nellis‚ in her column “Day in the Life of a Fashion Couture Designer”‚ says‚ “... nothing is ever typical in the world of fashion...no day is ever ’routine’‚ although we begin and end each day more or less the same: in early‚ out late.” Working as a Fashion Designer is a very busy‚ hard and challenging job. You have to provide a lot of strengths in creativity‚ marketing and determination; to be
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the constant development for new products and the continual demand for innovation in style‚ will certainly remain relevant in 20 years as much as it does today. Fashion will develop quickly in the fields of production development and undoubtedly work forward instead of reliving the passed. However‚ the most intriguing changes in the fashion world within the next 20 years will be noticeable in the domains of manufacturing and sustainable revitalization of products and how they will connect. In application
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costume english 1100–1200 in European fashion (12th century) Costume during the twelfth century in Europe was simple and differed only in details from the clothing of the preceding centuries. Men wore knee-length tunics for most activities‚ and men of the upper classes wore long tunics‚ with hose and mantles or cloaks. Women wore long tunics or gowns. A close fit to the body‚ full skirts‚ and long flaring sleeves were characteristic of upper class fashion for both men and women. Men’s clothing
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Dana Wheeler‚ Senior Vice President of marketing for the Fashion Channel is reviewing a new marketing segmentation and positioning strategy. The Fashion Channel Company needs to strengthen its competitive position and is willing to spend an estimated $60 Million on advertising‚ promotion‚ and public relations in 2007. TFC’s main focus has been solely on fashion which is broadcast all hours of the day 7 days a week. This channel reaches close to 80 million viewers in US households with their main
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referential groups and virtual consumption communities 3 2.1.1 Online referential groups in fashion and fashion bloggers 4 3. Fashion opinion leadership 5 3.1 Fashion opinion seeking 5 3.1.1 The process within referential groups in fashion: coherence of opinion leaders and opinion seekers 6 3.1.2 Victoria Beckham as fashion opinion leader for the Birkin Bag 7 4. Why and how marketers make use fashion opinion leaders 9 5. Conclusion 13 List of references 14 List of illustrations
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The Italian Sub-culture has been around since the 1800s after the Italians started emigrating to the United States of America for a chance to live the American Dream. This sub culture was dominated by the Italian Mafia and gangsters. During the Prohibition era these gangsters became increasingly popular and influenced America as well as the fashion of the 1920s fashion. The most notorious gangster of this time was Al Capone‚ infamously known for his style as well as the Valentines Day massacre.
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Introduction Clothing multiples has the largest market share in women’s wear sector in UK fashion market. Therefore the market competitiveness is extremely fierce in this sector. 2009 was one of the toughest ever years for retailers‚ as trading conditions deteriorated and consumer confidence reached a low. Expenditure on clothing fell by 0.5% to £35.3bn – the fist decline for more than 20 years. (Verdict report) With higher taxes and weak wage growth resulting in consumer reluctance to spend‚
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