Fast Fashion Mode "Three Magic Weapons" Help Luggage Industry Pformation

You can't see that ZARA, H&M, UNIQLO, GAP and other international fast fashion brands are laying the 123 line cities in a thunderbolt, while the rising speed of local fast fashion brands such as VANCL and Me&City is also amazing.

H&M set a record of 2 million single store daily sales in Shanghai.

Look directly at the changes in the consumer market and grasp the essence of fashion.

In the shops of ZARA and H&M, you will see that fashion people are eager to pick out their favorite styles in the heap of clothes stacked randomly, and can't wait to bring them home.

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"The rate of change in fashion consumption among Chinese urban residents is the fastest in the world."

Yuan Yue, chairman of the zero research consulting group, thinks so.

Two years ago, the fashion media group and the zero point research and consulting group jointly launched a report on the study of China's urban residents' fashion index.

The report points out that fast fashion has become the most prominent feature of current Chinese fashion.

A major change in the consumer market in recent years is the "aesthetic fatigue" of consumers in the era of information explosion, and the fast pace of life and work that drives them to pursue the latest fashions and trends forever.

Facing up to this reality and capturing consumers' needs sensitively is one of the secrets of the rise of fast fashion brands.

Tracing the logic behind the fast fashion, we can see the impact of the "fast elimination" of clothing on consumption.

Through rapid elimination, more frequency replacement, more frequency contacts, more frequency consumption and more dependence will be generated, and eventually enterprises will gain continuous profits.

Not for sale.

How to create impulse buying for consumers? How to create an irreplaceable fashion experience? Fast fashion brands give a vivid lesson to China's shoe brand.

Thinking about these two topics, let us get rid of the shackles of brand operation and become closer to the core proposition of consumption.

The magic weapon of "quick and accurate" charm

"Quick and accurate" - if we can use three words to describe fast fashion brand, there is no doubt that this is its charm.

"Quick"

Fast design and product update speed will push the pursuit of "fast fashion" to the top.

It is said that H&M and Mango will launch 2000~4000 single products each year, and ZARA will speed up the introduction of new products to an incredible level. About 11000 designs can be launched annually.

From a fashion show's clothing photos to the final clothing products appearing in the ZARA store, it only takes four or five weeks, and the designers are ready to modify their design according to the market reaction. A design modification time is strictly controlled within two weeks.

The influence of "fast fashion" has begun to penetrate into high-end clothing and footwear brand, and brands have made bold reforms.

Over the past spring, summer, autumn and winter, the tradition of introducing new products has been subverted. In recent years, luxury brand Coach, which has been sought after by young consumers, has compressed its launch cycle to one month and updated its shop window image every month.

It is the inspiration of Coach from fast fashion brand to break the seasonal tradition, to have many styles, to update quickly, and to please customers like chameleons.

This change made Coach stand out from traditional luxury brands and maintained growth.

Ruthless

Low price is the sign of fast fashion brand.

Another key to fast fashion brands to occupy the market is low price.

Unlike traditional high-end fashion brands, thousands of yuan, or even tens of thousands of dollars, are usually priced at hundreds of dollars.

That is to say, similar clothing, fast fashion prices are only a small part of traditional fashion brands.

Cost reduction is a magic weapon for its survival. Fast fashion brands almost invariably choose production networks based on developing countries.

Keeping balance between cost reduction and quality assurance is absolutely a very difficult art.

Because of this, the big bowl like ZARA will lose hands occasionally.

However, what needs to be treated objectively is that the sacrifice of quality is by no means the choice of ZARA, and its unique supply chain system is the magic weapon in terms of cost reduction.

ZARA firmly grasped the entire supply chain system including design, warehousing, distribution and logistics, and strictly controlled the cost of each supply chain.

A strong network of 22 self owned factories, more than 260 raw material suppliers, more than 400 small collaborative processing plants, logistics distribution centers and more than 500 franchised stores has been supporting the ZARA's products to flow around the world at the fastest and lowest cost.

"Quasi"

Accurate grasp of fashion is the essence of fast fashion brand design.

Fast fashion brands are excellent designers all over the world. They are always rushing around the world fashion shows, connecting fashion with popular consumption with amazing smell.

They are not plagiarism, but follow up deduction after fast absorption. This kind of interpretation has a kind of rebirth character, which gives consumers a fresh feeling without losing the original flavor of fashion.

Precise brand positioning and clear brand image

Whether it is ZARA, H&M, Mango, or the new Internet VANCL, which is rising in China, fast fashion brands never lose their original brand in brand building. They have a very clear definition of brand positioning, trying to make consumers enjoy not only products but also a very personalized brand experience through brand spokesperson, shop image or shopping process, which is a very personalized brand experience, which keeps consumers' loyalty to the brand.

The precise grasp of brand positioning and the spirit of implementing it are what our shoe industry lacks.

For example, we also invite celebrities to be the endorsements. Fast fashion brands accurately grasp their audiences, and match stars with the spirit of their temperament to match their hearts.

VANCL invited Han Han to be the endorsement and swept the young audience with the slogan "I am not Han Han, I am fan".

The responsible person of VANCL has described the two characteristics of his advertisement at such precise level: first, the content design and style design of advertising must conform to the aesthetic, value and consumer psychology of the group at the age of 25~35.

Secondly, we should show the characteristics and advantages of the products to users and provide convenient channels for direct access.

Looking at the shoe market in China, many brands themselves are not clear at the moment. Moreover, celebrity endorsement is regarded as a tool to attract gold. Such a "similarity and separation" often leads to the ineffectiveness of advertising investment.

The key to standardized operation and scale expansion

The ultimate goal of apparel chain operation is to solve the biggest standardization operation under the regional market differentiation.

Dai Chunhua, chief consultant of Guangzhou's Sichuan Road consultancy, has cited an example of "standard soybeans" to illustrate the irreplaceable nature of standardization in the current retail system.

Soybean origin has 40 million soybean farmers in China, three northeastern provinces and Inner Mongolia. In 2006, nearly 40% to 50% of soybean cultivation land was barren.

The reason is that almost 100% of the oil companies in China do not buy soybeans from their own countries, but import foreign soybeans through international trade. In addition to price reasons, one of the important points is that the quality of soybeans produced in foreign modern farms is stable, and the oil yield of the whole batch of soybeans can be guaranteed at 22%.

Because of the fragmented individual agricultural mode of China's soybeans, the production and purchase links can not guarantee the quality of soybeans mixed with one, 23% and 21% oil extraction rates, and can not guarantee that the whole batch of soybeans is maintained at a very stable oil extraction rate, which has great impact on the low profit food squeezing industry.

Foreign soybean is not first to win the price, but to win in a large number of quality, such as one, win in the standardized farm planting mode! {page_break}

Fast fashion brands have deeply grasped the essence of standardization, and entered the shops of ZARA, H&M and UNIQLO. Regardless of whether their shops are in Beijing or Chengdu, their terminal shops are similar in design, shelf, appearance, goods configuration, display mode and even operation mode.

When customers enter shops, they can almost experience a set of streamlined standardized services.

As the leaders of these brands point out, thorough standardization brings high efficiency and lowest operating cost.

Zhang Ji, a senior expert on the promotion of shoe and clothing sales performance, suggests that footwear companies should learn from the experience of fast fashion brands and combine the operation of local shoe companies to start with several key points, rather than designing all the details of store operation.

For example, by showing the standardization of attracting customers into stores, the standardization of experiential matching sales, or the standardization of cross selling for loyal customers, etc.

Grasp these key points, do not disperse energy, and the actual operation is easier to get started.