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Fashion Brands: Branding Style from Armani to Zara

Fashion Brands: Branding Style from Armani to Zara
By Mark Tungate

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Once a luxury that only the elite could afford, fashion is now widely accessible.  While brands such as Zara and H&M have made fashion an affordable choice for the mass market, sports brands such as Nike and Adidas have transformed the image of their products from merely practical to fashionable.  How has this transformation occurred?  Fashion Brands explores the popularization of fashion and explains how marketers and branding experts have turned clothes and accessories into objects of desire.  Full of first-hand interviews with key players, the book analyzes every aspect of fashion from a marketing perspective.  It examines how advertising, store design and the media have altered our fashion sense.  The new edition includes chapters on fashion bloggers and the rise of celebrity-endorsed products.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #87906 in Books
  • Published on: 2008-09-28
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 272 pages

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"Journalist Mark Tungate presents a terrific overview of many key aspects of this gritty yet ephemeral business. This is a serious book... Tungate goes inside fashion firms that know how to sell dreams and illusions made of Italian fabrics and fine leather. We recommend this book to marketers - even those who are not fashion minded - who want to rejuvenate their creativity and pick up some new sources of inspiration and style." -- getAbstract.com

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"Journalist Mark Tungate presents a terrific overview of many key aspects of this gritty yet ephemeral business. This is a serious book... Tungate goes inside fashion firms that know how to sell dreams and illusions made of Italian fabrics and fine leather. We recommend this book to marketers - even those who are not fashion minded - who want to rejuvenate their creativity and pick up some new sources of inspiration and style." -- getAbstract.com

About the Author

Mark Tungate is a journalist specializing in media, marketing, and communication.  Based in Paris, he is the author of Adland, Branded Male, and Media Monoliths (Kogan Page), and co-author of The Epica Book, an annual review of the best European advertising.

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popular account of branding in the fashion field4
Most of the content has come up in the leading fashion and culture magazines and business media. And the topic of how marketers create consumer demand and the story of individual brands such as Nike and Gucci have been covered in other books. But Tungate brings all of these subjects, all of these themes, and all of these prominent fashion brands together for a picture of the system of which they are all a part. With his broader perspective, he also gives a global perspective not limited to the vibrant, shop-til-you-drop, U.S. market and its advanced ideology of consumerism where many of the "branding" ideas and techniques originated, but including also European and Asian markets. A media, marketing, and communication journalist, Tungate writes in a popular style with many references from popular culture and the well-known fashion marketplace.

Highly Recommended!5
If you want to understand the true meaning of style, the fashion world can explain it. No other industry is as adept at transforming a commodity into an art form, and doing so repeatedly on a seasonal basis. Journalist Mark Tungate presents a terrific overview of many key aspects of this gritty yet ephemeral business. His wide-ranging book covers everything from fashion photography to haute couture, modeling agencies, accessories, second hand clothes and even the history of department stores. He goes into journalistic detail about established and avant-garde designers, photographers, ad agencies and trend consultants who work side by side to sell image to the public. This is a serious book, complete with the URL's of key Web sites, and profiles of the top designers who create brands. Tungate goes inside fashion firms that know how to sell dreams and illusions made of Italian fabrics and fine leather. We recommend this book to marketers - even those who are not fashion minded - who want to rejuvenate their creativity and pick up some new sources of inspiration and style.

Foundations for the biz4
Tungate writes in a style that's easy to follow, articulate, and knowledgeable. The book is broken down into 21 chapters that cover everything from street style to haute couture to counterfeits. It's a must read for anyone who is in the fashion business and wants to know just what it takes to make a brand. The branding style that Tungate covers are the biggest designers to date as well as those up an coming. It reads very smoothly and you walk away with an immense knowledge of all these different brands. Did you know that the first Nike shoe was created by pouring rubber into a waffle maker? Exactly. Neither did I.