UNIT 2 Fashion Cycle The rise widespread popularity and then decline in acceptance of a style Fashion cycles are like waves Some are short some are long Success is being able to recognize and predict the different ID: 279774
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THE MOVEMENT OF FASHION
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2Slide2Fashion Cycle: The rise, widespread popularity and then decline in acceptance of a style
Fashion cycles are like waves: Some are short; some are long.
Success is being able to recognize and predict the different stagesSlide3INTRODUCTION STAGE: New styles must be priced high enough so that those that succeed can cover the losses on those that don’t succeed.
Buyers purchase a limited amount.Slide4RISE STAGE: The design is accepted by an increasing number of customers. Fashion buyers reorder in quantity for maximum store coverage.Slide5During rise stage, retailers will offer line for line copies or knockoffs.
Line for line copies or knockoffs – copying of an item at a lower price.Slide6Adaptations – designs that have all the dominant features of the style that inspired them, but do not claim to be exact copies.Faux – Fake
Faux pearls, faux furSlide7CULMINATION STAGE – Plateau stage – A fashion is at the height of its popularity. At this stage the fashion can be mass-produced, mass-distributed and sold at reasonable prices.Slide8The culmination stage can be extended if fashion becomes accepted as a classic or if new details of design, color or texture are continually introduced.Ex: Running ShoesSlide9DECLINE STAGE – The decrease in consumer demand because of boredom resulting from widespread use of a fashion.Production slows; markdowns
LENGTHS OF FASHION CYCLES
Declines are fast, and a drop to obsolescence is almost always steeper than a rise to culmination.Slide10OBSOLESCENCE STAGE – When strong distaste for a style has set in and it can no longer be sold at any price.“YOU CAN’T GIVE IT AWAY”
More new fashions are always ready to push existing ones out of the way. Fashion cycles are becoming shorter and shorter.Slide11
In Trendy World Of Fast Fashion, Styles Aren't Made To LastSlide12The normal flow of a fashion cycle can be broken or interrupted by outside influences. Ex. Unpredictable weather, war, Depression.
The cycle can resume when outside influences disappear.
Ex. Availability of man-made fibers was interrupted by petroleum shortages in 1973.Slide13Slide14WHEN FASHION IS IN A CYCLE BREAK, INTEREST IN COSMETICS USUALLY PICKS UP.Slide15Long-run fashions: a fashion that takes more seasons to complete its cycle than what might be considered its average life expectancy.
Short- run fashions: a fashion that takes fewer seasons to complete its cycle than what might be considered its average life expectancy.Slide16
Fashion Trends of 2009
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www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704869304574596251783557242Slide17CONSUMER BUYING CYCLE AND CONSUMER USE CYCLE
Both the consumer buying and consumer use cycles tend to rise at an equal rate, but once a fashion has reached its peak, the consumer buying cycle declines much faster than does the consumer use cycle.
Business
Is Denim On The Decline? Jean Makers See Sharp Drop In Sales
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/08/12/is-denim-on-the-decline-jean-makers-see-sharp-drop-in-sales-pantsSlide18Consumers are still wearing fashions even though stores are not longer stocking themEx. Swimwear is no longer in stores in August, however, consumers are still using them.Slide19If managers see the buying cycle begin to drop, they must take immediate steps to reduce stock with early and deep markdowns.Slide20ACCELERATING FACTORS THAT SPEED UP A FASHION CYCLE:Increased buying power
Increase leisure
More education
Improved status of womenTechnological advancesSales Promotion
The changes of seasonsSlide21Increased buying power – There are more people with money to flock to a new fashion reaching culmination stage quicker.
Increased Leisure – more time to buy and enjoy fashions such as casual clothes, sports apparel, travel clothes.Slide22More Education – more educated people are earning more money to buy more fashions
Improved status of women – more women in the workplace earning income to buy more fashions.Slide23Technological Advances – New fibers and materials are improving qualities. Computer technology has improved production keeping prices down, therefore, more people can buy.Slide24Sales Promotion – sales promotion can help speed up acceptance by telling and showing people that fashion exists.
Seasonal Change – as the seasons change, so does consumer demandSlide25RETARDING FACTORS THAT SLOW DOWN FASHION CYCLES:
Habit and Custom
Sumptuary Laws
Nature of the MerchandiseReductions in Buying PowerSlide26Habit and Custom
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abit is a loyalty to an established style slowing fashion cycle.
Customs continue keeping past fashions in modern dress.Slide27They are on the left side for women who tend to hold babies on their left side and can conveniently use the right hand for buttons.Slide28Slide29Sumptuary laws
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aws that regulate what we can and cannot purchase.
Ex. Children’s sleepwear must be flame-retardant.Slide30Nature of the Merchandise M
en’s fashion cycles move more slowly than women’s
Reductions in Consumer’s Buying
Power People make do with clothing they have, buying only necessities.Slide31Men’s fashions have been designed to emphasize such attributes as strength, power, bravery, and high social rank.
Women’s fashions have tended to concentrate mainly on different ways to convey sexual appeal
Erogenous
– portions of the body that are newly exposed. Ex. legsSlide32Slide33Predicting the movement of fashion trends1.Distinguish what the current fashion trends are. Fashion trend – a direction in which fashion is moving
2.Estimate how widespread they are.Slide34Slide353.Determine when these fashions will appeal to the firm’s target customer groups.Fashion forecasters keep a sharp watch for prophetic styles.
Prophetic styles – new styles that are still in the interesting introductory phase of the fashion cycle.Slide36The 7 biggest trends from New York Fashion Week fall 2015
http://www.aol.com/article/2015/02/19/the-7-biggest-trends-from-new-york-fashion-week-fall-2015/21144690/Slide374.Collect data: sales by price, style and color
5.Observe what people are wearing