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A thorough, comprehensive guide to the luxury goods industry for executives, entrepreneurs, and students interested to know about the luxury business As key new luxury markets like Asia, Latin America and Africa continue to expand, The Road to Luxury: The Evolution, Markets and Strategies of Luxury Brand Management gives professionals interested in the industry a holistic understanding of luxury market dynamics around the world using stories, experiences, relevant data and statistics on current market trends. For investors, the book offers valuable insight on where the industry is headed. For industry insiders and executives, it presents valuable data with which to craft successful business ...
Presenting a vision of the luxury sector and its management, this edited book describes “the new luxury” through a comprehensive view of the value chain, from concept to market. The authors argue that the main characteristics of “luxury” are linked to specific resources and competencies found throughout the value chain and that value is a result of the interaction between the brand and stakeholders, and more precisely with their clients. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, New Luxury Management encompasses both strategic and functional aspects of luxury management, providing innovative solutions to the successful creation and management of value across the organization, from leadership, human resources, financial management, marketing and economic perspectives.
We are facing ecological disasters that will affect our ability to survive and the crisis is forcing us to reexamine the entire value system that has governed our lives for the past two thousand years.
This work lays the foundation for an empirical understanding of the WTO constitution as a response to the logic of intellectual property law. It concludes that the WTO and its institutions must find ways of conforming to the democratic principles of accountability, transparency and representation.
“I bestow on you a special award - that of High Priestess of the Fragrance World with power of divination.” Jean Pierre Lippman President, Christian Dior, On the occasion of the June l985 Fragrance Foundation Awards Ceremony “In ‘Spritzing to Success’ Annette reveals how she deliberately and successfully transcended the fickle limitations of fashion and fragrance trends. She took a tiny industry under her wing and before she could count to ten (years) the fragrance world was spritzing to success with her.” Carmen Dell’Orefice Legendary model “Annette Green was ‘the Mother of Invention’ creating the legacy of the Fragrance Foundation and the Wardrobe of Fragrance concept. ...
Ramp Up is a comprehensive study of the business of Indian fashion. With well-researched details on volume, revenues, growth, and manufacturing strength, this book takes a close look at one of India’s fastest growing and most glamorous industries—fashion. As Indian fashion faces the challenge of building brands and creating a range of products that reflect our heritage in textile, tradition, and history in the present age of rapid change and development, Ramp Up provides invaluable insights into the business models of the biggest business labels in the country. It charts out the investment opportunities in each business and also deals with back-end processes that support the main body of fashion. In addition, the book also talks about how word of mouth can be used as a powerful marketing tool in countries like India and Pakistan, which have a strong oral tradition .
This book is focused on the increasing diversity of flagships and the ways in which they can create showcases in people’s lives. This unique volume will be of interest across many disciplines including marketing, visual culture, design and urban studies.
This contributed volume captures some of the most current topics and trends in the fashion industry. It provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of the behaviour of firms in this fast-moving industry with a focus on their resources, capabilities and routines around communication and sustainability strategies in an international context. It covers hot topics such as the role of social media, sustainability, and luxury as well as brief mention on how the Covid-19 pandemic will impact fashion brands. With contributions from practitioners and academics, this book provides an overview of the debates, analysis and best practices, making it an invaluable resource for anyone studying or researching the fashion industry, branding, or luxury.
This innovative volume brings together contributions from leading experts in the study of luxury to present the full range of perspectives on luxury business, from a variety of social science approaches. Topics include conceptual foundations and the evolution of the luxury industry; the production of luxury goods; luxury branding and marketing; distributing luxury; globalization and markets; and issues of morality, inequality, and environmental sustainability. The Oxford Handbook of Luxury Business is a necessary resource for all students and researchers of the field as well as for forward-thinking industry professionals.
The importance of fashion and design in an events context remains under-researched, despite their ubiquity and significance from a societal and economic perspective. Fashion-themed events, for example, appeal to broad audiences and may tour the globe. Staging these events might help to brand destinations, boost visitor numbers and trigger popular debates about the contributions that fashion and design can make to identity. They may also tell us something about our culture and wider society. This edited volume for the first time examines fashion and design events from a social perspective, including the meanings they bestow and their potential economic, cultural and personal impacts. It explo...