The Role of Fashion Promotion Within the Fashion Industry
I am going to write about what the role of fashion promotion is within the fashion industry and discuss how it might develop in the next five years. To do this I shall review what fashion promotion is by defining it and finding out how, when and where it started. To understand what fashion promotion really is in a contemporary context I shall broadly look at how it is used and what many forms it has taken since the beginning up until the present day.
To look at how fashion promotion may develop in the next five years I shall analyse and critique specific examples in more detail, such as finding out how these specific types of fashion promotions are used, by whom and for what
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Before this, soirees took place in stores; chairs would be put out & people would come and watch the shows inside the shop; this still happens today for instance Topshop will put on a catwalk of their latest collection inside their flagship store on Oxford Street.
However contemporary fashion shows are as much about being seen at the event as they are about what is being shown on the catwalk. The audience wants to feel important and exclusive and the front row seats show status. There is also more press coverage now about the clothes themselves, which is the reason why designers make extreme and un-wearable clothes. "Current fashion participates in an economic system that is developing very differently from its nineteenth-century origins, which pioneered the techniques of retail and advertising to promote the garment. Now the fashioned garment circulates in a contemporary economy as part of a network of signs, of which the actual garment is but one." (Bruzzi S. & Church Gibson P. (eds). 2000. P.96)
We need to understand the fashion industry's cyclical nature in each historical period and its technical development to see how fashion promotion has developed into the forms existing today. Changes in women's influence and power, money supply, changing tastes and interests in sports, shapes, and ongoing cultural issues and events such as terrorism and
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The trendy apparel that stores offer to the public makes a person have the ability to be fashionable since it can be adapted to our own preferences, and it also shows how companies influence people through the way they dress. Clothing companies among others create and implant images into people’s minds that insinuate that consumers should follow in order to be able to fit in the society that is shaped by the beliefs of corporations and industries. While it should be okay for fashion to be promoted since it is a way to express oneself, it is important to note the ways how companies advertise clothing and current fashions, since it reflects how our products are carefully designed to control our
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What is the role of fashion promotion within the fashion industry, and how will it develop over the next 5 years?
So…our conclusion is that fashion bloggers have the power (in some case more, in others less) for influencing the fashion environment. As we have said, a blog is a kind of social media, so there are lots of messages going around the blogs and on consequence around the world. The main activity of bloggers is to tell the readers what they like, what their opinion about a product is, why they like it, or why they don’t like it. This is the influence. They add “personal and human style” to the brands and products they are posting about. This “personal and human style” cannot be reached by