Olga Mitterfellner - Böcker

This textbook examines fashion luxury brand management, providing students with a comprehensive understanding of its origins, unique components, current practices, global trade and, most importantly, the application of sustainable models to the industry. It also highlights what makes brands fail and how they can become more resilient. The key content covers the heritage of luxury brands, the importance of craftsmanship and creative direction, the role of luxury conglomerates, cultural awareness and internationalisation, risks of failure and opportunities for revitalisation as well as the application of sustainable measures for a resilient and ethical brand future. Each chapter includes a combination of industry insights, case studies or expert interviews. Coupled with theoretical frameworks and business models, these examples and case studies show how sustainable models can be applied to existing luxury brands and how practices can be embedded into the brand concept. Students are encouraged to think about opportunities and solutions, unique to luxury brand management, and will gain knowledge and skills for a successful future career. A truly global and holistic textbook, Luxury Fashion Brand Management and Sustainability should be core and recommended reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students studying luxury fashion management, luxury brand management, sustainable fashion and responsible business and fashion marketing and communications. Supplementary online resources include chapter-by-chapter PowerPoint slides and a test bank.

This textbook examines fashion luxury brand management, providing students with a comprehensive understanding of its origins, unique components, current practices, global trade and, most importantly, the application of sustainable models to the industry. It also highlights what makes brands fail and how they can become more resilient. The key content covers the heritage of luxury brands, the importance of craftsmanship and creative direction, the role of luxury conglomerates, cultural awareness and internationalisation, risks of failure and opportunities for revitalisation as well as the application of sustainable measures for a resilient and ethical brand future. Each chapter includes a combination of industry insights, case studies or expert interviews. Coupled with theoretical frameworks and business models, these examples and case studies show how sustainable models can be applied to existing luxury brands and how practices can be embedded into the brand concept. Students are encouraged to think about opportunities and solutions, unique to luxury brand management, and will gain knowledge and skills for a successful future career. A truly global and holistic textbook, Luxury Fashion Brand Management and Sustainability should be core and recommended reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students studying luxury fashion management, luxury brand management, sustainable fashion and responsible business and fashion marketing and communications. Supplementary online resources include chapter-by-chapter PowerPoint slides and a test bank.

Fashion Marketing and Communications draws together interdisciplinary approaches from marketing, branding, promotion and critical media studies to provide a comprehensive and honest understanding of the commercial and ethical functions marketing plays in the fashion industry.Offering a combination of theory and practice, the book covers subjects including historical advertising and public relations, modern consumerism, contemporary marketing techniques, international markets, and sustainable and inclusive marketing, outlining the opportunities and challenges facing the future of fashion marketers. This second edition has been fully revised to incorporate new chapters on sustainability marketing, digital marketing and future-facing trends. Interviews with practitioners have been refreshed and broadened to include a diverse range of perspectives from around the world. New case studies showcase real-life examples from Abercrombie & Fitch, Freitag, LOEWE and SOLIT Japan. This book champions new actionable theory frameworks with embedded activity sheets that invite the reader to apply the frameworks in an educational or professional context.Examining the last 100 years of fashion marketing and communications and current theory and practice, this broad-ranging text is perfect for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of fashion marketing, brand management and communications as well as practitioners. PowerPoint slides and exercise questions are available to support the book.

Fashion Marketing and Communications draws together interdisciplinary approaches from marketing, branding, promotion and critical media studies to provide a comprehensive and honest understanding of the commercial and ethical functions marketing plays in the fashion industry.Offering a combination of theory and practice, the book covers subjects including historical advertising and public relations, modern consumerism, contemporary marketing techniques, international markets, and sustainable and inclusive marketing, outlining the opportunities and challenges facing the future of fashion marketers. This second edition has been fully revised to incorporate new chapters on sustainability marketing, digital marketing and future-facing trends. Interviews with practitioners have been refreshed and broadened to include a diverse range of perspectives from around the world. New case studies showcase real-life examples from Abercrombie & Fitch, Freitag, LOEWE and SOLIT Japan. This book champions new actionable theory frameworks with embedded activity sheets that invite the reader to apply the frameworks in an educational or professional context.Examining the last 100 years of fashion marketing and communications and current theory and practice, this broad-ranging text is perfect for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of fashion marketing, brand management and communications as well as practitioners. PowerPoint slides and exercise questions are available to support the book.

Some of the usual obstacles to modern teachings of marketing are ethnocentricity, the limitation of creative thought by conformity to existing theories, lack of questioning of ethics, and a disconnection from historic events or sociological discourse. This book, in contrast, draws together interdisciplinary approaches from marketing, branding, promotion and critical media studies as tools for understanding the way in which fashion works today, and re-evaluates what makes certain fashion marketing tactics fashionable.Offering a combination of theory and practice, Fashion Marketing and Communication is full of international case studies, practice-based examples and interviews with scholars and practitioners in the fashion and communications industry. Covering subjects including the history of consumerism, fashion marketing, the creative direction of the fashion brand and the use of bloggers and celebrities as marketing tools, this book delineates the opportunities and challenges facing the future of fashion media in the twenty-first century.Examining the last 100 years of marketing and communications, current theory and practice, as well as questions on the ethics of the fashion industry, this broad-ranging and critical text is perfect for undergraduate and postgraduate students of fashion marketing, branding and communication.

Some of the usual obstacles to modern teachings of marketing are ethnocentricity, the limitation of creative thought by conformity to existing theories, lack of questioning of ethics, and a disconnection from historic events or sociological discourse. This book, in contrast, draws together interdisciplinary approaches from marketing, branding, promotion and critical media studies as tools for understanding the way in which fashion works today, and re-evaluates what makes certain fashion marketing tactics fashionable.Offering a combination of theory and practice, Fashion Marketing and Communication is full of international case studies, practice-based examples and interviews with scholars and practitioners in the fashion and communications industry. Covering subjects including the history of consumerism, fashion marketing, the creative direction of the fashion brand and the use of bloggers and celebrities as marketing tools, this book delineates the opportunities and challenges facing the future of fashion media in the twenty-first century.Examining the last 100 years of marketing and communications, current theory and practice, as well as questions on the ethics of the fashion industry, this broad-ranging and critical text is perfect for undergraduate and postgraduate students of fashion marketing, branding and communication.