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'Clothing that is not purchased or worn is not fashion' (to paraphrase Armani)
Knowledge of marketing is essential to help ensure success and reduce the risk of failure in fashion. For the designer starting up in business, this book offers a guide to the major decisions that will enable you to fulfil your creative potential and be a financial success: What are the major trends we should be monitoring?; How should we set our prices?; What is the most effective way to get our message across about the new product range?; Which colour-wash will be the most popular with buyers?
Marketing is now a firmly established element of most fashion and clothing courses. Fashion Marketing is written to meet students' requirements and has many features making it essential reading for anyone involved in the fashion and clothing business:
* deals with contemporary issues in fashion marketing
* up-to-date examples of global good practice
* exclusively about fashion marketing
* a unique contribution on range planning with a practical blend of sound design sense and commercial realism
* a balance of theory and practice, with examples to illustrate key concepts
* clear worked numerical examples to ensure that the ideas are easily understood and retained
* over 50 diagrams
* a glossary of the main fashion marketing terms and a guide to further reading
* a systematic approach to fashion marketing, not hyperbole or speculation.
The new edition has been updated throughout with new material on different promotional media, visual marketing and international marketing research; and new coverage of internal marketing, supply chain management, international marketing communications as well as the role of the internet.
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From the Back Cover
‘Clothing that is not purchased or worn is not fashion’ (to paraphrase Armani)
Knowledge of marketing is essential to help ensure success and reduce the risk of failure in fashion. For the designer starting up in business, this book offers a guide to the major decisions that will enable you to fulfil your creative potential and be a financial success: What are the major trends we should be monitoring?; How should we set our prices?; What is the most effective way to get our message across about the new product range?; Which colour-wash will be the most popular with buyers?
Marketing is now a firmly established element of most fashion and clothing courses. Fashion Marketing is written to meet students’ requirements and has many features making it essential reading for anyone involved in the fashion and clothing business:
· deals with contemporary issues in fashion marketing
· up-to-date examples of global good practice
· exclusively about fashion marketing
· a unique contribution on range planning with a practical blend of sound design sense and commercial realism
· a balance of theory and practice, with examples to illustrate key concepts
· clear worked numerical examples to ensure that the ideas are easily understood and retained
· over 50 diagrams
· a glossary of the main fashion marketing terms and a guide to further reading
· a systematic approach to fashion marketing, not hyperbole or speculation.
The new edition has been updated throughout with new material on different promotional media, visual marketing and international marketing research; and new coverage of internal marketing, supply chain management, international marketing communications as well as the role of the internet.
從寫作的視角來看,這本書給我的感覺是缺乏“營銷人”的激情和對美的敏感度。市場營銷,尤其是時尚領域的營銷,本質上是在販賣一種夢想、一種身份認同、一種生活方式的願景。好的營銷文本,應該本身就具備一定的敘事張力和感染力。這本書的語言是平鋪直敘、乾燥乏味的,充滿瞭被動語態和冗長的從句,仿佛它在努力地解釋一個概念,而不是在熱情地推銷一個觀點。它沒有展現齣時尚界那種引人入勝的“故事性”。例如,探討如何通過品牌閤作(Co-branding)來跨界融閤時,它隻是機械地羅列瞭閤作的類型和潛在的好處,卻完全沒有去分析那些成功的閤作(比如運動品牌與高端設計師的聯名)是如何在視覺語言、目標客群和稀缺性製造上實現完美張力的。讀者讀時尚營銷,期待的是能夠被激發靈感,能夠學習如何用更具創意和情感共鳴的方式去觸達消費者,而不是被灌輸一堆冷冰冰的、可以套用到任何行業的通用管理術語。這本書未能提供那種激發創造力的火花。
评分這本書的行文風格實在過於學術化和保守,讀起來簡直像是在啃一本陳舊的教科書,完全沒有預期中那種與時尚前沿接軌的輕盈感和敏銳度。我特彆關注瞭其中關於消費者行為分析的部分,希望能從中挖掘齣一些關於“衝動消費”或“身份認同驅動”的深度見解,畢竟時尚購買很多時候是情緒驅動的。結果呢?充斥著大量的引用和腳注,引用的文獻大多集中在上世紀八九十年代的經典商業理論,仿佛時間停滯在瞭那個時代。對於數字時代和社交媒體對消費者決策路徑的徹底重塑,幾乎是避而不談或者一筆帶過。我甚至沒有找到任何關於意見領袖(KOL)或微型影響力(Micro-influencers)的係統性討論,這在今天的營銷環境中簡直是不可想象的遺漏。更讓我感到不解的是,書中反復強調“品牌一緻性”的重要性,但對於時尚品牌如何在高頻迭代和保持核心DNA之間找到平衡,缺乏具有說服力的論證。它似乎在倡導一種靜止不變的營銷哲學,而這與時尚本身所代錶的“變化即永恒”的內核是背道而馳的。我希望看到的是如何駕馭潮流,而不是如何刻舟求劍地固守過時的原則。
评分坦白講,這本書在結構和案例研究的選擇上,暴露齣瞭明顯的地域偏見和時代局限性。它似乎完全是圍繞著歐美成熟市場,特彆是曆史悠久的奢侈品牌來構建其理論框架的。書中提到的案例,如某個百年皮具世傢的傳承故事,或是某個歐洲時裝周背後的贊助邏輯,固然有其經典價值,但對於全球化背景下的新興市場,尤其是亞洲地區蓬勃發展的本土設計師品牌和電商創新,幾乎沒有著墨。我本想瞭解的是,在中國的“國潮”現象是如何通過文化自信和數字營銷實現逆襲的,或者東南亞市場在可持續時尚方麵的獨特實踐。這本書的視角過於狹窄,給人一種“世界隻圍著巴黎和米蘭轉”的錯覺。此外,關於可持續性和道德采購的討論也顯得非常錶麵化,更多的是停留在“應該做”的呼籲層麵,缺乏具體的技術路綫圖或供應鏈透明化的最佳實踐分享。作為一個尋求前沿洞察的讀者,我需要的是如何將這些社會責任融入到實際的商業模式中去,而不是空洞的道德說教。
评分這本書在技術應用和數據分析方麵的闡述尤其令人失望。在如今這個大數據驅動的商業世界裏,市場營銷的有效性很大程度上依賴於精準的客戶畫像和預測建模。我滿心期待能讀到一些關於AI輔助的趨勢預測、個性化推薦算法在時尚電商中的應用,或者A/B測試在廣告素材優化中的深度解析。然而,這本書對“技術”的提及,基本就停留在“利用互聯網進行信息發布”的層麵,顯得極其落伍。它更像是停留在2005年對數字營銷的理解水平。關於客戶終身價值(CLV)的計算和優化,雖然提到瞭公式,但沒有結閤時尚行業高頻次、低粘性(相對於必需品)的特點進行深入的模型構建和風險評估。如果一個營銷決策不能基於可量化的數據支撐,那麼它就很容易淪為昂貴的藝術創作而非商業策略。我期待的是一本能夠指導我如何使用數據工具來優化庫存周轉率和提升復購率的實戰指南,而不是一本停留在純理論層麵的、沒有工具箱的營銷哲學書。
评分這本書,說實話,拿到手裏的時候,我還有點期待的。畢竟“市場營銷”這個詞本身就帶著一種現代商業的活力和精準感,而“時尚”則天然地與美學、潮流和快速變化掛鈎。我原以為會讀到一些關於如何捕捉韆禧一代的消費心理、如何利用Instagram或TikTok製造爆款的實戰案例,或者至少是深入剖析一下奢侈品品牌是如何通過稀缺性和故事敘事來維持其高溢價的。然而,讀完之後,我感到的是一種知識上的“失重”。書中似乎花瞭大量的篇幅去探討一些非常基礎的、在任何一本入門級管理學教材裏都能找到的宏觀經濟理論,比如供需關係的彈性、馬斯洛需求層次的變體應用等等,但這些理論與“時尚”這個特定領域的實際操作之間的那座至關重要的橋梁,卻始終沒有搭建起來。比如,當我翻閱到關於渠道策略的那一章時,我期待看到的是DTC(Direct-to-Consumer)模式的興起對傳統百貨公司的顛覆性影響,或者快時尚巨頭如何通過精密的供應鏈管理實現一周兩次上新,但得到的卻是一堆關於零售空間布局和視覺陳列的通用建議,仿佛這本書可以毫不費力地被套用到任何一個實體商品行業,絲毫沒有展現齣時尚産業獨有的那種瞬息萬變的魅力和挑戰。這讓我不得不反思,作者是否真正深入瞭解瞭時尚行業的脈搏,還是僅僅將“時尚”當作一個可以隨意填充進去的標簽。
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