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  • Faust
    kitsch killer
    • Sep 2006
    • 37852

    Will Covid 19 Change The Way We Shop?

    Just wanted to post this here. Discuss.

    NEW YORK, United States — Recently a lot has been said by various prognosticators about how the fashion industry will change in the post-Covid-19 world. Prognosis is good business in the times of upheavals because a lot of panic-stricken people are glued to screens searching for answers. However, research shows that most of prognosticators get it wrong. Why do they persist? Because if they are right, one theory says, they get to beat their chest about it, and if they are wrong, well, people simply won't remember.
    Plenty of recent prognoses have been predicting that the coronavirus crisis will prompt fashion consumers to reassess their values and shift their spending away from fast fashion and flashy, marketing-driven luxury megabrands towards quality, sustainability and general sobriety. We will consume less and consume more mindfully and responsibly, so they say. I am here to tell you that, unfortunately, they are wrong.


    Some believe coronavirus will prompt fashion consumers to reassess their values and shift spending away from fast fashion and luxury megabrands. They are wrong, argues Eugene Rabkin.
    Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

    StyleZeitgeist Magazine
  • shropshire
    Junior Member
    • Mar 2020
    • 11

    #2
    I'm sure that if there will be changes, our fashion designers will find a way to make both ends meet.

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    • supercilious
      Member
      • Apr 2014
      • 67

      #3
      Haha I read it the other day from their site and recognized your writing halfway through--

      My hopes aren't in consumers here-- but I hope covid will catalyze designer's desires to update themselves. It's a shock to me that no one is taking digital fashion seriously, or (other than abasi rosborough and a few others) exploring modern business models like dtc

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      • mindreader
        Junior Member
        • Nov 2017
        • 7

        #4
        The link says "page not found"

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        • Anton
          Senior Member
          • Oct 2014
          • 261

          #5
          I think it's more of a positive outlook rather than a realistic one, with the business sentiment of limitless growth the sustainable ethical model is simply not possible. Why would LVMH or Kering lose profits? Unless they do a complete shift in the way they do business and think about growth this scenario is unlikely to happen and we will fairly quickly get back to the exact situation that was here before Covid19. Furthermore, these companies and similar ones have investors, investments, business plans and much more that they need to think about and answer to. Contradictory to what may be perceived by a lot people, it's not a single persons decision to make the change, this requires a massive structural and even societal change to shift consumption habits (fashion is just one industry).
          Last edited by Anton; 04-20-2020, 03:22 PM.
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          • nobodycansaveus
            Junior Member
            • Apr 2018
            • 3

            #6
            Another great article Mr. Faust, although it is very discouraging the state of consumerism in which we are enthralled in. Never before have we had so much power as consumers (whole) yet we find ourselves (masses) still driven under the guises of the major luxury brands. What a world we live in.

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            • darkpyramid
              Member
              • Dec 2019
              • 52

              #7
              Fast fashion suffer unexpected thing and sure they have to rearrange all their papers again, zara scored 0 sales in many countries for days and in middle east countries for weeks, even that is not the end of nightmare it's just the beginning

              Always consider shopping is not human behavior it's culture!
              For those who throw tons of garments in FFF retails then throw again by consumers in trash after just one use of them, they get hurt during covid 19, and they have to pay for that simply because they give a shit about professional fashion industry rules
              Just i compared between Geoffrey B. Small fans when they asked Geoffrey about his health even asked about his team during covid 19 days and the consumers of zara, H&M...... etc which stop their purchases with don't giving a shit to FFF stores and sales men, staff... etc who loses their jobs by covid 19, exactly the same situation to the fast fashion kings who don't give a shit to their consumers and only thinking how to reduce their cost by releasing their employees and shut their stores till the covid 19 end

              A deep look to Geoffrey B. Small, why his sales didn't hurt by covid 19,and why he didn't release some of his team to reduce the cost even his funding power by all logic methods is weaker than zara, H&M. as compared
              The reason why Geoffrey B. Small survive from covid 19 sales down is the culture, the culture which he teaches it to his fans and the respect of his fans to him by the same thing (the culture)

              Shopping in fashion is not mass stupid things throw to consumers for stupid cheap prices
              Fast fashion lords thought that, and they sure of they vision by growing sales and profitability statistics till covid 19 come and destroy the false vision

              Now they have again to turn their sights to Geoffrey B. Small fans and how by god they asked Geoffrey and his team to stay safe!
              They now have to analyze the reason of this strong deep relation between Geoffrey as designer and his fans

              Sure thing covid 19 will change the shopping methods, but it doesn't matter to continue in brick and mortar or converted to digital fashion era

              Covid19 teaches them hard lesson, to survive with your business, you have to build your business by culture

              One day this culture will protect your business exactly as Geoffrey B. Small approved that to the fast fashion lords

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              • noStyleKyle
                Junior Member
                • May 2020
                • 2

                #8
                I largely agree with your post. The problem with an abstract ideal like sustainable fashion is that it can take quiet a bit of detective effort to find out if what you are buying really matches the abstraction in your head. Most people (myself often included) have zero desire to do this detective digging EVERY time we purchase something, so we end up talking a good game at lunch with our friends but our purchasing patterns do not match the talk.

                Also your first paragraph reminds me of Nassim Taleb, he has been railing against professional "predictors" for well over a decade now.

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                • Faust
                  kitsch killer
                  • Sep 2006
                  • 37852

                  #9
                  Originally posted by Anton View Post
                  I think it's more of a positive outlook rather than a realistic one, with the business sentiment of limitless growth the sustainable ethical model is simply not possible. Why would LVMH or Kering lose profits? Unless they do a complete shift in the way they do business and think about growth this scenario is unlikely to happen and we will fairly quickly get back to the exact situation that was here before Covid19. Furthermore, these companies and similar ones have investors, investments, business plans and much more that they need to think about and answer to. Contradictory to what may be perceived by a lot people, it's not a single persons decision to make the change, this requires a massive structural and even societal change to shift consumption habits (fashion is just one industry).
                  Bingo
                  Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

                  StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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                  • Faust
                    kitsch killer
                    • Sep 2006
                    • 37852

                    #10
                    Originally posted by noStyleKyle View Post
                    I largely agree with your post. The problem with an abstract ideal like sustainable fashion is that it can take quiet a bit of detective effort to find out if what you are buying really matches the abstraction in your head. Most people (myself often included) have zero desire to do this detective digging EVERY time we purchase something, so we end up talking a good game at lunch with our friends but our purchasing patterns do not match the talk.

                    Also your first paragraph reminds me of Nassim Taleb, he has been railing against professional "predictors" for well over a decade now.
                    That's exactly it. For a while thought that if we wage a successful campaign like that against smoking, we will succeed. But then I realized that campaign against smoking stressed people's immediate self-interest. How do you do that with climate change or ethical production? We don't realize how enlightened we are here. The masses simply are not aware or don't give a shit. Not when it's happening in a far away country with brown children making their clothes. If it was THEIR children making it, that would be another story.
                    Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

                    StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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                    • shropshire
                      Junior Member
                      • Mar 2020
                      • 11

                      #11
                      Yes, definitely it will

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                      • Faust
                        kitsch killer
                        • Sep 2006
                        • 37852

                        #12
                        Two weekends ago in SoHo, first day of fall weather, it was like nothing happened. Streets full of people, lines for every store.
                        Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

                        StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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                        • printerhpsupport
                          Junior Member
                          • Oct 2020
                          • 1

                          #13
                          of-course, Covid-19 is going to change the way of shopping.

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                          • Elika
                            Junior Member
                            • Aug 2019
                            • 1

                            #14
                            The collective will of the masses is still for everything to go back to "business as usual" because social and cultural mores have not changed. People still want to believe they can become filthy rich, eat fast food, wear fast fashion, and do their best to not think about consequences or reality.

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