Fashion Marketing & 4 P's
Know your Customer
Build that Brand
Activate It!
Fashion Trends
100

This is the strategic process of managing the flow of merchandise from the selection of designs to the final presentation to retail customers.

What is Fashion Marketing?

100

This is the specific group of potential customers that a business aims to reach.

What is a Target Market?

100

This represents the long-term “soul” or personality of a company.

What is Branding?

100

Unlike traditional advertising, this strategy actively engages consumers and motivates them to act through experiences.

What is a Marketing Activation?

100

A trend starts with elite consumers or high-fashion runways and eventually moves to the masses.

What is Trickle-Down Theory?

200

This “P” includes fabric, fit, quality, and branding.

What is Product?

200

Age, gender, income level, and geographic location fall into this category of customer information.

What are Demographics?

200

Social media ads, email blasts, and fashion shows are short-term tactics that fall under this.

What is Marketing?

200

A brand gives consumers free trials of a product to build trust.

What is Sampling?


200

A trend begins in street culture or a subculture and eventually gets adopted by luxury designers.

What is Bubble-Up or Trickle-Up Theory?

300

Flagship stores, department stores, e-commerce sites, and pop-up shops all fall under this “P.”

What is Place?

300

Personality, values, interests, and lifestyle fall into this category of customer information.

What are Psychographics?

300

In the Brand Identity Prism, logos and colors belong to this facet.

What is Physique?

300

A brand encourages consumers to participate and share online.

What is a Digital & Social Activation?

300

Social media and mass production allow a trend to spread horizontally among similar groups at approximately the same time.

What is Trickle-Across Theory?

400

Influencer marketing, social media, fashion shows, and PR are examples of this “P.”

What is Promotion?


400

This is the process of dividing a broad market into smaller groups.

What is Market Segmentation?

400

In the Brand Identity Prism, this facet represents the brand's tone of voice and character.

What is Personality?

400

A brand creates a time-sensitive discount to encourage consumers to act.

What is a Promotional Activation?


400

A style is at the height of its popularity, widely available at different price points, and worn by the early and late majority. Name the Fashion Life Cycle stage.

What is Peak?

500

A luxury brand like Dior uses a high cost to signal status, while a mass-market brand like Old Navy uses a lower cost to drive higher sales volume. This represents which “P”?

What is Price?

500

A marketer studies whether customers value sustainability or price. Is the marketer looking at demographics or psychographics?

What are Psychographics?

500

This Brand Identity Prism facet describes how customers feel about themselves when wearing the brand.

What is Self-Image?

500

A brand uses storytelling to connect its message with consumer values.

What is a Content-Led Activation?

500

Consumers have tired of a style, it is considered dated, and it is no longer sold in mainstream retail. Name the Fashion Life Cycle stage.

What is Obsolescence?