Consumers' need for uniqueness: evaluation of the ready to wear line of luxury brands

This paper looks at the subject of consumers need for uniqueness and status consumption with specific reference to a luxury apparel brands clothing and accessories in the Australian Generation Y market. Consumers need for uniqueness and status consumption has been explored in depth among adult consu...

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Main Authors: Latter, Chelsey, Marchegiani, Chris
Format: Working Paper
Published: School of Marketing, Curtin Business School 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/34695
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description This paper looks at the subject of consumers need for uniqueness and status consumption with specific reference to a luxury apparel brands clothing and accessories in the Australian Generation Y market. Consumers need for uniqueness and status consumption has been explored in depth among adult consumers, but there has been less attention given to the symbolic consumption of Generation Y consumers especially in the field of luxury apparel. This allows the study to extend from areas regarding branded fashion apparel that are conceptually the same as other brands in the same category to branded fashion apparel that utilises a one off customisation approach.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-346952017-01-30T13:45:05Z Consumers' need for uniqueness: evaluation of the ready to wear line of luxury brands Latter, Chelsey Marchegiani, Chris luxury apparel generation Y need for uniqueness Luxury brands This paper looks at the subject of consumers need for uniqueness and status consumption with specific reference to a luxury apparel brands clothing and accessories in the Australian Generation Y market. Consumers need for uniqueness and status consumption has been explored in depth among adult consumers, but there has been less attention given to the symbolic consumption of Generation Y consumers especially in the field of luxury apparel. This allows the study to extend from areas regarding branded fashion apparel that are conceptually the same as other brands in the same category to branded fashion apparel that utilises a one off customisation approach. 2010 Working Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/34695 School of Marketing, Curtin Business School fulltext
spellingShingle luxury apparel
generation Y
need for uniqueness
Luxury brands
Latter, Chelsey
Marchegiani, Chris
Consumers' need for uniqueness: evaluation of the ready to wear line of luxury brands
title Consumers' need for uniqueness: evaluation of the ready to wear line of luxury brands
title_full Consumers' need for uniqueness: evaluation of the ready to wear line of luxury brands
title_fullStr Consumers' need for uniqueness: evaluation of the ready to wear line of luxury brands
title_full_unstemmed Consumers' need for uniqueness: evaluation of the ready to wear line of luxury brands
title_short Consumers' need for uniqueness: evaluation of the ready to wear line of luxury brands
title_sort consumers' need for uniqueness: evaluation of the ready to wear line of luxury brands
topic luxury apparel
generation Y
need for uniqueness
Luxury brands
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/34695