Glover, Catherine (2020) Rapha: weaving story strands of luxury. In: Understanding Luxury Fashion: From Emotions to Brand Building. Palgrave Advances in Luxury . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 243-273. ISBN 9783030256531, 9783030256548
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Abstract
British cycling company Rapha presents itself as a premium brand offering high quality apparel, concierge travel services, boutique 'clubhouses' and beautiful publications. Since 2004, it has enjoyed year-on-year growth and in 2016 sales increased almost 30% to £63 million (Wood 2017). This chapter critiques how we can know that and know how (Roberts and Armitage 2016) Rapha is a luxury brand – contrary to its labelling as 'premium' – and how this can be established through socio-cultural sense-making of the brand offerings, through critical textual analysis. This chapter interrogates how Rapha has developed a luxurious 'storyworld' (Abbott 2008) and charts how story strands of luxury are woven through its material artefacts, texts and environments, acting as a symbolic 'red thread' that cohesively binds the brand together.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Subjects: | N500 Marketing W200 Design studies |
| Department: | Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Design |
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| Depositing User: | Paul Burns |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Jun 2019 10:03 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Mar 2022 16:30 |
| URI: | http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/39524 |
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