A comprehensive postgraduate textbook for understanding and marketing luxury brands in a global context.Luxury Marketing gives postgraduate students in marketing, business, and fashion management practical insight into how luxury brands create value, connect with culture, and stay relevant within a fast-changing market. Written by Kent Le, it bridges theory and practice to show how digital innovation, sustainability and gl...

Discover the secrets to successful luxury brand management with this bestselling guide written by two of the world's leading experts on luxury branding, Jean-Noël Kapferer and Vincent Bastien, providing a unique blueprint for luxury brands and companies.Having established itself as the definitive work on the essence of a luxury brand strategy, this book defines the differences between premium and luxury brands and products, analyzing the nature of true luxury brand...

Marketing and branding inform many of the strategic and creative decisions involved in fashion design and product development. Marketing is a vital component of the industry and an understanding of its importance and role is essential for those planning a career in fashion.Marketing Fashion, Second Edition is a practical guide to the fundamental principles of marketing and branding, from creating a customer profile to developing a brand identity. The book explains key theoretical c...

A collection of international contributions from renowned academics and practitioners from the US, UK, China, the second edition of Fashion Marketing has been completely updated, revised and expanded to reflect the major changes in the fashion industry since 2001 and covers all of the key themes and issues of the area. Key themes and areas covered include globalization, fast fashion, luxury fashion, offshoring, business-to-business, forecasting, sourcing, supply chain management, new produ...

Marketing Fashion is a practical guide to the fundamental principles of marketing, branding and promotion, from creating a customer profile to developing a brand identity. The book explains key concepts and illustrates how they are applied within the global fashion and retail industry, from haute couture to the mass market.For this third edition, examples drawn from a broad range of fashion, textile and retail have been updated to include more on social media and digital a...

The luxury market has long been the exception. Protected for decades - and even centuries - from swings in economic fate and taste by consumers with money and demands for something extraordinary. But the world is changing, and those changes have already initiated some of the first-ever structural changes to the once-untouchable luxury market.This essential book paints a roadmap for the future of marketing to the rich and super-wealthy. Written by experts in the sector, the book combines br...

Do you know how to think like an architect? Do you know why you should? How do you make sure that you have the critical thinking tools necessary to prosper in your academic and professional career? This book gives you the answers.Architects have a valuable and critical set of multiple thinking types that they develop throughout the design process. In this book, Randy Deutsch shows readers how to access those thinking types and use them outside pure design thinking – showing how the...

Elevate your brand. Master the art of luxury. Become an icon.Picturing your luxury brand as a global icon*, revered for its heritage and celebrated for its innovation?*Desire a brand strategy that combines timeless elegance with modern practices to future-proof your brand?In search of a deep-dive manual...

How Can i Serve? Navigating Leadership and Building CommunitiesIn a world craving authentic connection and impactful direction, "How Can i Serve?" redefines leadership for a new era. Drawing directly from Wadia Ait Hamza's unparalleled experience as Head of the Global Shapers Community and Head of the Forum of Young Global Leaders (YGLs), this book introduces The Constellation Effect, a groundbreaking vision that transcends traditional hierarchies to foster vibrant...

Traditional shops are facing challenging and unprecedented times. Future-Ready Retail explains how changing consumer needs, the impact of digital and the issues around health, wellness and distancing have transformed retail and provides compelling solutions to help reimagine the high street and out-of-town malls.Conventional high streets, shopping arcades and retail malls throughout the world no longer attract the crowds needed to sustain them as successfu...

Every business knows that the best customer is a happy customer. They return again and again, bring their friends and family, and deliver tons of free advertising via word of mouth and social media. But in order to grow that loyal base, you must be keenly aware of your customers' needs and preferences. Drawing on the latest research in the exploding field of positive psychology, Columbia Business School professor Bernd Schmitt offers three unique approaches any business can use to turning ...

Strategic Fashion Management: Concepts, Models and Strategies for Competitive Advantage is a highly accessible book providing a unique look into the strategic drivers of the dynamic and ever-growing fashion industry. Derived from the knowledge gap in quality strategic fashion management literature, this book blends theory with a variety of examples and uses 18 case studies to help bring to life contemporary topics faced by senior executives.The analysis is highly ...