INDEX: Designer and Luxury Goods Displays

INDEX:
Designer and Luxury Goods
Retail Merchandising

Designer and Luxury Goods Retail Merchandising

# # #

Table of Contents

# # #

SCROLL DOWN FOR PHOTOS AND LINKS…
to Designer and Luxury Goods Retail Merchandising

# # #

This Designer and Luxury Goods Retail Merchandising index page
aggregates links to all posts and photos of retail merchandising,
display, and outfitting as well as deep Background courtesy of Wikipedia.

BACKSTORY: Fashion design is the art of applying design, aesthetics, clothing construction, and natural beauty to clothing and its accessories. It is influenced by diverse cultures and different trends and has varied over time and place. “A fashion designer creates clothing, including dresses, suits, pants, and skirts, and accessories like shoes and handbags, for consumers. They can specialize in clothing, accessory, or jewelry design, or may work in more than one of these areas.”^[1]

Fashion designers work in a variety of ways when designing their pieces and accessories such as rings, bracelets, necklaces, earrings and clothes. Due to the time required to put a garment out on the market, designers must anticipate changes to consumer desires. Fashion designers are responsible for creating looks for individual garments, involving shape, color, fabric, trimming, and more.^[2]

Fashion designers attempt to design clothes that are functional as well as aesthetically pleasing. They consider who is likely to wear a garment and the situations in which it will be worn, and they work with a wide range of materials, colors, patterns, and styles. Though most clothing worn for everyday wear falls within a narrow range of conventional styles, unusual garments are usually sought for special occasions such as evening wear or party dresses.

Some clothes are made specifically for an individual, as in the case of haute couture or bespoke tailoring. Today, most clothing is designed for the mass market, especially casual and everyday wear, which are commonly known as ready to wear or fast fashion. (SOURCE: Wikipedia)

BACKSTORY: Designer clothing refers to apparel created by a specific fashion designer or licensed by a person or brand. It is often considered luxury clothing, known for its high quality and haute couture appeal, made for the general public and bearing the label of a renowned designer. Licensing designer names has been a common practice within the fashion industry since the 1970s. Designer clothing includes a wide range of apparel, such as designer jeans, which can often cost several hundred dollars.

Designer clothing originally referred to apparel created by a specific designer. The definition has since expanded to include designs licensed by a designer or company. Licensing designer names was pioneered by designers like Pierre Cardin in the 1960s and has been a common practice within the fashion industry since the 1970s.^[1] Designer clothing is often expensive, luxury apparel known for its high quality and haute couture appeal, made for the general public and bearing the label of a well-known fashion designer. (SOURCE: Wikipedia)

BACKSTORY: In economics, a luxury good (or upmarket good) is a good for which demand increases more than what is proportional as income rises, so that expenditures on the good become a more significant proportion of overall spending. Luxury goods are in contrast to necessity goods, where demand increases proportionally less than income.^[1] Luxury goods is often used synonymously with superior goods.

The word “luxury” has an etymological cognate in the Latin verb luctormeaning “to overextend” or “to strain”.^[2] From this, the noun luxuria and the verb luxurio developed, “indicating immoderate growth, swelling, … in persons and animals, willful or unruly behavior, disregard for moral restraints, and licentiousness”, and the term has had negative connotations for most of its long history.^[3] One definition in the OED is a “thing desirable but not indispensible”.^[4]

Economists can identify a luxury good by comparing the demand for the good at one point in time against the demand for the good at a different time, at a different income level. When personal income increases, demand for luxury goods increases even more than income does. Conversely, when personal income decreases, demand for luxury goods drops even more than income does.^[5] For example, if income rises 1%, and the demand for a product rises 2%, then the product is a luxury good. This contrasts with necessity goods, or basic goods, for which demand stays the same or decreases only slightly as income decreases.^[5] (SOURCE: Wikipedia)

# # #