1st Edition
Communicating Fashion Brands Theoretical and Practical Perspectives
1. An introduction to fashion brand communication. 2. The fashion industry context. 3. The role of the fashion communicator as a cultural intermediary. 4. Motivation and the fashion consumer. 5. Creating fashionable identities. 6. Co-creating fashion spaces. 7. Co-creative storytelling. 8. Building a brand community. 9. The symbolic value of fashion brand collaboration. Conclusion and future directions: How fashion brand communication shapes culture.
Biography
Emily Huggard is Assistant Professor of Fashion Communication at Parsons School of Design in New York. Her research explores how brands create a space of proximity for the consumer using physical, digital and social realms, and the use of installation art as a brand experience tool in the epoch of post-consumerism and post-digital.
Jon Cope leads the MA in Public Relations at Westminster University, London. His current research focuses on the use of visual materials in promotional communication. Jon co-authored and photographed the book Fashion Promotion in Practice, published in 2016. He holds an MA in Critical Global Politics from Exeter University.
