Understanding the social consumer fashion brand engagement journey: insights about reputed fashion brands

The Bedrock of Internet Fashion Brands

Fashioning Data - A Social Media Perspective on Fast Fashion Brands

In this paper, we study the performance of N-gram language models on classification tasks such as sentiment analysis and spam detection and evaluate the effect of prior probability estimates on the results. Our data is in the form of public online posts pertaining to fast fashion brands, from different social media channels (Twitter and Facebook). We propose a novel ensemble model based on the ...

Understanding Fashion Cycles as a Social Choice

We present a formal model for studying fashion trends, in terms of three parameters of fashionable items: (1) their innate utility; (2) individual boredom associated with repeated usage of an item; and (3) social influences associated with the preferences from other people. While there are several works that emphasize the effect of social influence in understanding fashion trends, in this paper...

Effects of brand trust, perceived fit and consumer innovativeness on fashion brand extension evaluation

This study explored the effects of brand trust, perceived fit, and consumer innovativeness on the overall evaluation of vertical and horizontal extensions for fashion brands. Data were collected from 187 female consumers aged 18 or older who were familiar with Giorgio Armani, the parent brand chosen for this study. Regression results showed that brand trust was a positive predictor of the overa...

Brand image and brand dilution in the fashion industry

We develop a dynamic optimal control model of a fashion designer’s challenge of maintaining brand image in the face of short-term pro…t opportunities through expanded sales that risk brand dilution in the longer-run. The key state variable is the brand’s reputation, and the key decision is sales volume. Depending on the brand’s capacity to command higher prices, one of two regimes is observed. ...