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While rooted in traditional marketing principles, successful fashion marketing presents a unique set of opportunities and challenges. Marketing Fashion: A Cross-Cultural Perspective, second edition, presents marketing theories and practices as they specifically relate to apparel, home goods, and other design-driven products. Using a variety of contemporary examples, the text details how fashion marketers develop and apply marketing strategies that meet consumer needs. This includes topics such as: Research, Relationships and Branding, Products; Prices and Distribution; Sales, Promotion, and Communications; and Careers. A brand-new Appendix on Careers helps students better identify potential jobs in the ever-evolving division of marketing. Readers will begin to understand how marketing impacts consumer and organizational buying behavior, research, a diversified consumer base, product planning and positioning, pricing, supply chain management, wholesale, retail, and personal sales. Rooted in historical ideology with examples of classic marketing and fashion theories readers will become well-rounded with practices as they relate to contemporary design. Marketing Fashion, second edition explores in depth contemporary issues such as technology, social media, market diversity, social responsibility and ethics, ecological production, and considers effective strategies for various economic climates. This text explores those who work in this area of fashion and explores opportunities for readers to pursue in the areas of marketing fashion products. New to this Edition - Updated Marketing Industry Spotlight Interviews - All new Case Studies that explore real world examples - Updated materials addressing digital platforms and the role of social media in marketing - New Appendix on careers with sample resumes - New marketing plan in the appendix to allow students to learn key campaign components Marketing Fashion STUDIO - Study smarter with self-quizzes featuring scored results and personalized study tips - Review concepts with flashcards of terms and definitions and image identification - Branch out with links to curated online multi-media resources that bring chapter concepts to life Instructor Resources - PowerPoint presentations include images from the book and provide a framework for lecture and discussion - Instructor''s Guide provides suggestions for using the text in the classroom and planning the course with sample syllabi, a test bank, and supplemental assignments ...
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Joseph H. Hancock II is a professor at Drexel University, USA, in the department of design. He has worked in management, branding, merchandising, and leadership for landmark companies, including The Gap, The Limited Corporation, and Target Corporation. He is the principal editor for the journal Fashion, Style & Popular Culture.Penny Gill is a writer/editor and President of PWG Communications Inc. marketing communications consultants based in White Plains, New York. Her experience in both trade journalism and public relations/marketing communications encompasses the apparel/accessories, home furnishings, and retailing fields, among other industries. She has contributed to publications including Stores, HFN, Apparel Industry Magazine, and Furniture Today, and has provided PR/marketing communications services to clients in the fashion, healthcare, non-profit, and other fields, including Du Pont Textile Fibers division, Fisher-Price, National Retail Federation, and many others. She holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. Gill is co-author of Marketing Fashion: A Global Perspective (Fairchild Books, 2012) and The Why of the Buy: Consumer Behavior and Fashion (Fairchild Books, 2008).Richard Petrizzi, MBA, is an Associate Professor in the Marketing and Management Department at the Illinois Institute of Art - Chicago. He is a member of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), the National Speakers Association (NSA), the International Textile and Apparel Association (ITAA), and Who's Who Among America's Teachers. Petrizzi's experiences as an entrepreneur, contract trainer, and administrator have provided him with a strong foundation for creating a results-driven and learner-centered pedagogical environment. His research interests include topics in communications, negotiations, consumer behavior, professional selling, and emotional intelligence. Petrizzi is co-author of Marketing Fashion: A Global Perspective (Fairchild Books, 2012) and The Why of the Buy: Consumer Behavior and Fashion (Fairchild Books, 2008).Patricia Mink Rath, MS, is a consultant in marketing education in Winnetka, Illinois. Her fashion merchandising experience includes work as a retail executive in the fashion departments of specialty and department stores in the Chicago area, Boston, and San Francisco. She has taught college level courses in fashion marketing and merchandising, consumer behavior, retail buying and management, French culture and language for over three decades. Fluent in French, she has led fashion merchandising classes in Paris and Provence. Mink Rath has traveled in Europe, Central America, and Asia and gives illustrated lectures on fashion in both English and French. She is a lifetime member of the Alliance Francaise du North Shore, Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) and the Marketing Education Association (MEA). She is co-author of a number of texts and other educational materials for students and teachers. Mink Rath is co-author of Marketing Fashion: A Global Perspective (Fairchild Books, 2012), Essentials of Exporting and Importing: U.S.Trade Policies, Procedures and Practices (Fairchild Books, 2010) and The Why of the Buy: Consumer Behavior and Fashion (Fairchild Books, 2008).
