Collaboration strategy, which has been actively applied since the year 2000, began to be used in many areas. In general, collaboration means the relationship of joint performance, cooperation, and cooperative works between two or more people or entiti...
Collaboration strategy, which has been actively applied since the year 2000, began to be used in many areas. In general, collaboration means the relationship of joint performance, cooperation, and cooperative works between two or more people or entities. From marketing perspectives, collaboration implies a cooperative relationship in which more than two companies or individuals mutually share their own strengths in terms of the market and the available technology by combining mutually beneficial capacities based on their own core capacities during a certain period. These marketing cases form various types between companies, company and brand, brand and brand, company and designer, and brand and designer. Also, marketing is created either within the same industry or within totally different industries. Among others, this study conducted research into the joint performance between a fashion designer and a different industry.
First, the study conducted research into cases of joint performance between a fashion designer and a company or brand, by collecting information about clothes, small fashion items, electronic appliances, mobile phones, automobiles, kitchenware, small goods, and other items, in order. Second, the study conducted a comparative analysis of joint performance in the case of fashion designers with their works. After conducting research into the designer’'s fashion philosophy, style, color, and pattern, the study analyzed the case using the research results by investigating joint performance cases participated in by designers. Third, the study withdrew the effect of joint performance by classifying the above cases using a methodology. For the standard of classification, the study analyzed methods related to style, color, pattern, and function, and conducted research into the scope of influence.
The results include the following. Fashion designers not only applied their fashion sense or color to joint performance works, but also introduced their ideas even into the functional aspect. The joint performance case with fashion designers differentiated collaboration with other fields in terms of existing products, and showed successful results by selling joint performance products only in a day or completely selling those products. In addition, their products are highly qualified to enhance their consumer reputation and satisfaction. Plus, not only the fashion industry but also many other industries desire the ability to read the consumers’' minds regarding trends, along with those fashion designers. Accordingly, companies or other subjects that develop joint performance cases, required fashion designers to largely join them from the planning stage, and currently various fashion designers are participating in a variety of joint performance cases such as design, technology, and promotion.
Amid the advance of business strategies and sharply competitive relationships, the appearance of joint performance was the most effective marketing case, and is supposed to be proactively pursued even more. Joint performances with different industries, where fashion designers most quickly respond to the trends and visually demonstrate world trends, result in fashions that will provoke consumers into buying products and stimulating their emotions with design. Also, as fusion was in fashion in food culture, there will be active fusion between different industries in the fashion world or other fields. Therefore, this study will set a good example for designers who will participate in this strategy, and this will be undoubtedly a good reference also for subjects who are going to enter into joint performance with fashion designers. On top of that, hopefully, there will be a broad spectrum of research into joint performance cases between the fashion industry and different industries, and into performance in the fashion industry by designers in other fields.