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Fashion Marketing: Contemporary Issues, Second edition - Pr School

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192 <strong>Fashion</strong> <strong>Marketing</strong><br />

Table 10.1 Activities guide for apparel product development<br />

Trend analysis<br />

Sources of trend inspiration:<br />

• Shopping domestic markets<br />

• Shopping international markets<br />

• Media (magazines, television, mail order catalogues)<br />

• <strong>Fashion</strong> support services (trade shows, fabric libraries, styles services, runway<br />

shows, colour services)<br />

• Anywhere<br />

• Internal sources (employees, sales tracking information)<br />

• Competition<br />

Employees involved in search for trends:<br />

• Buying area (buyers, general merchandise managers)<br />

• Design team<br />

• <strong>Pr</strong>oduct development manager<br />

• <strong>Fashion</strong> director<br />

• Chief executive officer<br />

• Merchandising manager<br />

• <strong>Pr</strong>oduct manager<br />

Concept evolvement<br />

How decision on concept emerged:<br />

• Perceptions gained from travelling to markets<br />

• Evaluation of overall trend information<br />

• Assessment of past sales trends<br />

• Information gained from fashion services<br />

• Instinct<br />

Palette selection<br />

How seasonal colour decisions are determined:<br />

• Based on information gained during Trend Analysis<br />

Source of colour information:<br />

• Colour services<br />

• Historical colour data<br />

• Colour testing results<br />

• New ‘emerging colour stars’<br />

• Purchased garments<br />

• Trends<br />

• Yarn samples<br />

• Colour swatches<br />

• Colour shows<br />

Fabrication selection<br />

Criteria used in selecting product fabrication:<br />

• Structural fabric characteristics (performance, quality, appearance, draping ability,<br />

weight, hand)<br />

• Seasonal theme or timing of the line<br />

• Aesthetics<br />

• Marketplace trends<br />

• Part sales history<br />

• Fabric price<br />

• Perceived customer benefits<br />

• Textile mill availability<br />

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