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The Artification of Luxury Fashion Brands

Synergies, Contaminations, and Hybridizations

  • Offers theoretical foundations to explain and justify the collaboration between art and fashion, presenting concrete examples of firms that employ the arts strategically to strengthen their reputation and image
  • Offers a new perspective on the hybridization and synergies between fashion and art from a business point of view, overcoming the sociological perspective from which these phenomena are usually looked at
  • Brings together fashion and arts scholars to provide insights into pros and cons of the collaborations between art and fashion

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. Trussardi Art and Fashion: A Long-Distance Relationship?

    • Andrea Rurale, Stefano Prestini
    Pages 63-87
  3. Christian Dior: The Art of Haute Couture

    • Federica Antonaglia, Juliette Passebois Ducros
    Pages 113-139
  4. Balenciaga: The Master of Haute Couture

    • Chiara Piancatelli, Piergiacomo Mion Dalle Carbonare, Manuel Cuadrado-GarcĂ­a
    Pages 141-162
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 163-166

About this book

Despite being vastly different both socially and economically, art and fashion are increasingly converging to collaborate in mutually advantageous ways. This book discusses the mutual benefits of collaboration through analysis of successful case studies, including corporate art collections and museums, patronage and sponsorship initiatives, and art-based brand management in the fashion sector. It provides a categorization of the strategies that fashion firms employ when they join the art world and illustrates how art and fashion brands can interact strategically at different levels. This book will be a valuable resource to researchers, providing an enhanced understanding of the potential of artification for managing brands and products.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, MontrĂ©al, Canada

    Marta Massi

  • Bocconi University, Milan, Italy

    Alex Turrini

About the editors

Marta Massi is Lecturer of Marketing at McGill University, Canada. She has previously served as Assistant Professor of Marketing at UniversitĂ  Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy and a visiting scholar at Deakin University, Australia. Her research interests include branding and arts and culture marketing. Her work has been published in national and international journals, including Journal of Global Marketing, Journal of Consumer Affairs and International Journal of Technology Management.

Alex Turrini is Associate Professor of Arts Management and Cultural Policy at Bocconi University, Italy. He has been Director of the SMU Meadows Division of Arts Management and Arts Entrepreneurship as well as visiting professor of Arts Management and Cultural Policy at SMU Meadows and Cox School of Business, USA. He carried forward several research, training and consulting projects with different national and international public sector organizations involved in the arts. His research activities center on public policies and management in the arts and cultural sector, arts collecting behavior and inter-organizational networks in the arts.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Artification of Luxury Fashion Brands

  • Book Subtitle: Synergies, Contaminations, and Hybridizations

  • Editors: Marta Massi, Alex Turrini

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Practice: Global Fashion Brand Management

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26121-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26120-7Published: 19 June 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26123-8Published: 26 August 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-26121-4Published: 18 June 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2523-3505

  • Series E-ISSN: 2523-3513

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 166

  • Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Marketing, Industries, Fine Arts

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Softcover Book USD 69.99
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