Due to the economic growth and information revolution triggered by digitization in the 21st century, the power of economy was shifted from seller to consumer. In this economy, new consumers have emerged to initiate rational and value-oriented consumpt...
Due to the economic growth and information revolution triggered by digitization in the 21st century, the power of economy was shifted from seller to consumer. In this economy, new consumers have emerged to initiate rational and value-oriented consumption based on information and to enjoy lifestyle which is different from that of the past consumer. Their lefestyle on evolution considerably changed market economy and affected fashion industry. Especially, it made the appearance of new distribution, namely, fashion multi shop. Thus, the objective of this research is to analyze effects of new consumer lifestyle on evolution of fashion multi-shop has on this fashion multi shop so as to present basic materials that guides the direction of domestic fashion multi shop in the future. As literature research, this research analyzes the lefestyle of new consumer and fashion multi shop that emerged after the 21st century for each type and analyzes effects of new consumer lifestyle on evolution of fashion multi-shop on the basis of such analysis. The conclusion drawn in this research is as follows.
First, new consumer lefestyle shows the phenomenon of diversification of occupation consciousness and the bipolarity of consumption under high economic growth and pursues personality and prefers well-being with the features of amusing contents, digital convergence, etc thanks to digitization. Further, it wants to experience brand and service instead of merely purchasing commodities.
Second, as fashion multi shop emerged in 1990s’, fashion multi shop market has increased with the popularization of deluxe goods and it is further diversified and expanded in individual form as differentiation strategy by the desire of new consumer in 2005. Such diversified fashion multi shops were classified into department store multi shop, fashion company multi shop, lefestyle shop, maker total shop, SOHOmulti shop, etc, each of which had its own feature. Further, analyzing the trend of increment for each item handled by fashion multi shop, while multi shop that handled women’s clothes and casual was prevalent in the growing age of fashion multi shop before 2004, fashion multi shop was expanded and increased in the area of women’s clothes, casual, men’s clothes, children’s clothes, total, sundry goods, golf wear, outwear, etc after 2005. As culture based on street is expanded, the type of fashion multi shop was appearing for each street.
Third, effects of new consumer lifestyle on evolution of fashion multi-shop resulted in the high grade consumption and diversification of occupation consciousness caused fashion multi shop to appear and expand. Due to the phenomenon of bipolarity of consumption, multi shop market was created in diverse price levels. Then, digital convergence and entertainment produced the concept of business type destruction in large quantity, thereby activating lefestyle shop that includes culture and commodities. Further, the phenomenon of pursuing personality of new consumer expanded the fashion of male multi shop and fashion multi shop to all ages and the tendency of pursuing well-being propagated multi shop mainly based on concept and highlighted the importance of health and exercise, thereby creating fashion multi shop of diverse items such as outwear, sports wear, golf wear, etc. Finally, the tendency of new consumer’s experiencing consumption moved on-line multi shop consumer to off-line. Generalizing above analysis, fashion multi shop is in the process of segmentation, individualization and diversification with new consumer lifestyle on evolution, getting out of the initial simple form. Then, it is expected that market will grow in the future as multi shop market is divided into totality such as lefestyle shop and unification mainly composed of single item. In spite of the concerns of experts, fashion multi shop is becoming new alternative for the saturated domestic fashion market. However, the brand strategy that can satisfy consumer’s desire as per indiscreet quantitative increment is still deficient. Thus, more emotional fashion multi shop strategy that reflects new consumer’s lefestyle must be developed urgently. Centering on the above contents, the present situation of domestic fashion multi shop was investigated for new consumer lefestyle. Thus, it is to be utilized as basic materials helpful to establish brand strategy of fashion multi shop.