{"id":2305,"date":"2019-11-06T08:59:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T08:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lambert.associates\/blog\/?p=2305"},"modified":"2019-11-07T14:48:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T14:48:19","slug":"retailers-love-designer-home-brands-but-do-they-resonate-with-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lambert.associates\/blog\/on-our-radar\/retailers-love-designer-home-brands-but-do-they-resonate-with-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"Retailers Love Designer Home Brands, But Do They Resonate With Consumers?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3><em>As fashion designers and brands like Off-White embrace the hospitality industry &#8211; creating furniture, wallpaper, and decorative pieces &#8211; consumers experience the lifestyle, but do they want to bring it into their homes? <\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>PARIS, France &#8211; Developing homeware at an accessible price point and scale without diluting brand equity may be challenging, but with the home furnishings industry poised to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"exceed 1&nbsp;trillion dollars by 2025 (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.architecturaldigest.com\/story\/fashion-brands-cash-in-home-furnishings-market\" target=\"_blank\">exceed 1&nbsp;trillion dollars by 2025<\/a>, many fashion brands are vying for market share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Virgil Abloh launches Off-White home goods for Millennials<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Though brands have been known to branch out into new sectors \u2013 Giorgio Armani launched Armani Casa home furnishings in 2000 and opened its first hotel in Dubai in 2010 \u2013 the trend has been accelerating. Just in the last few years, we have seen luxury brands Louis Vuitton, Loewe, and Gucci launch home decor collections, designing products either in-house or in collaboration with artists. Virgil Abloh recently launched a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"home goods collection with Off-White (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.off---white.com\/en\/IT\/home\" target=\"_blank\">home goods collection with Off-White<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Virgil Abloh recently launched a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.off---white.com\/en\/IT\/home\">home goods collection with Off-White<\/a>. The cult brand is offering its followers an opportunity to buy into the brand at an accessible price point. Of course, the entire collection is now sold-out, a testament to the Off-White effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Whether it is a designer creating a special product in collaboration with a brand, like <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Draper James (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/draperjames.com\/collections\/crate-and-barrel-x-draper-james\" target=\"_blank\">Draper James<\/a> is doing with its textile line at Crate &amp; Barrel, and Mercedes Salazar creating a raffia home line for Moda Operandi, or the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Peter Pilotto (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.peterpilotto.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Pilotto<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ladoublej.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"LaDoubleJ (opens in a new tab)\">LaDoubleJ<\/a> homeware collections, the product is there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>This business model is trickling down to niche brands<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Some markets are particularly susceptible to luxury branding: Chinese consumers, for example, now account for 33% of global luxury spending, according to consulting group Bain &amp; Company. This is one of the reasons why Versace and Armani, partnering with Mind Group, chose to expand into residencies in China, with luxury home elements combining with traditional regional cultures. This business model is trickling down to niche brands such as Maison Kitsun\u00e9, which is tapping into its customer base by launching a hotel in Bali in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\u201cBeing able to offer their clients a way to expand that lifestyle concept beyond clothes makes perfect sense.\u201d<\/p><cite>Raffaella Vignatelli, CEO of Luxury Living Group<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p> \u201cFashion has done such a good job of creating identities and moods through their ad campaigns and social media\u201d, says Raffaella Vignatelli, CEO of Luxury Living Group. \u201cBeing able to offer their clients a way to expand that lifestyle concept beyond clothes makes perfect sense.\u201d The fashion lifestyle is interesting for retailers with a designer fashion perspective. The strong brand awareness makes for easier conversion, so complementing their homewares department with fashion brands that resonate with their clients is understandable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGenerational change and digital media may be shifting the cultural emphasis from \u2018standing out\u2019 (individuality) to \u2018belonging\u2019 (community). But in the minds of luxury consumers, belonging is really about standing out through belonging to the right group,\u201d says Luca Solca, head of luxury goods research at Bernstein Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As people cultivate their social media personas, they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lambert.associates\/blog\/reinvention\/designer-homeware-the-next-big-vertical\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">view their environment as an extension of themselves and a reflection of their personality<\/a>. Everything from one\u2019s wardrobe, home, and pastimes becomes part of the lifestyle. Even though we witness a shift in consumerism, with less interest in acquiring things and more into living experiences, products that serve a clear purpose are part of daily experiences. Consumers yearn to belong to a community and all that is associated with it. So much the better for retailers if that community is associated with one\u2019s favourite brand or designer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>At Lambert + Associates, our homeware experts attend the major international trade fairs and salons to keep abreast of the up and coming interior brands, trends and products. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lambert.associates\/for-retailers\/#sourcing\">Find out more about our sourcing services for homeware&nbsp;here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-excerpt\">As fashion designers and brands like Off-White embrace the hospitality industry &#8211; creating furniture, wallpaper, and decorative pieces &#8211; consumers experience the lifestyle, but do they want to bring it into their homes? <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[131,112,132,130,135,134,137,133,120,136],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Retailers Love Designer Home Brands, But Do They Resonate With Consumers? 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