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Fashion as diversity and care 时尚是多样性和关怀
Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-06-15 DOI: 10.1080/15487733.2022.2083793
E. Manzini
Abstract This short contribution offers a perspective on the general topic of the Special Issue reflecting on the evolution of fashion and its contemporary meaning. Starting from a discussion of how the nature of fashion was shaped and contributed in turn to shape several founding ideas of modern civilization, it introduces some possible directions for re-signifying fashion, transforming its social and cultural function toward more sustainable paradigms.
摘要:这篇简短的文章提供了对本期特刊的总体主题的看法,反映了时尚的演变及其当代意义。本文首先讨论了时尚的本质是如何形成的,并进而影响了现代文明的几个基本理念,然后介绍了重新定义时尚的一些可能的方向,将其社会和文化功能转变为更可持续的范式。
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引用次数: 4
A framework of circular business models for fashion and textiles: the role of business-model, technical, and social innovation 时尚和纺织品的循环商业模式框架:商业模式、技术和社会创新的作用
Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-06-15 DOI: 10.1080/15487733.2022.2083792
L. Coscieme, S. Manshoven, J. Gillabel, F. Grossi, L. Mortensen
Abstract The textiles production and consumption system is a priority product-value chain for the European Commission in its 2020 Circular Economy Action Plan. The Action Plan foresees a European Union strategy for sustainable textiles in a circular economy with the aim of creating markets for sustainable and circular textile products, services, and business models. The European Environment Agency (EEA) and its Topic Center on Waste and Materials in a Green Economy (ETC/WMGE) have shown that consumption of clothing, footwear, and household textiles in Europe is on average the fourth highest category of environmental and climate impacts from a consumption perspective and from a vantage point that considers the entire life cycle. The fashion industry is responsible for more than 60% of total textiles used and clothing is expected to remain the largest application of textiles in the future. To enable a sustainable and circular textiles system, a transformation of fashion production and consumption is needed. This transformation requires innovation in business-model design, technology, and social practices through the adoption of specific policy making, education, and behavioral change enablers. In this Brief Report, we present a framework to map and advance the implementation and scaling of circular business models. This is illustrated by exploring four different circular business-model approaches for fashion and textiles, including models based on product durability; access models based on renting, leasing, and sharing; garment collection and resale; and recycling and reuse of materials. For each business-model type, we discuss enablers based on technical and social innovations and policy, behavioral change, and education.
纺织品生产和消费系统是欧盟委员会2020年循环经济行动计划中优先考虑的产品价值链。该行动计划预测了欧盟在循环经济中可持续纺织品的战略,旨在为可持续和循环纺织品、服务和商业模式创造市场。欧洲环境署(EEA)及其绿色经济中的废物和材料主题中心(ETC/WMGE)表明,从消费的角度和从考虑整个生命周期的有利角度来看,欧洲的服装、鞋类和家用纺织品的消费平均是对环境和气候影响的第四大类别。时尚行业占总纺织品使用量的60%以上,预计服装仍将是未来纺织品的最大应用领域。为了实现可持续和循环的纺织品系统,需要转变时装生产和消费方式。这种转变需要通过采用具体的政策制定、教育和行为改变推动者,在商业模式设计、技术和社会实践方面进行创新。在这份简要报告中,我们提出了一个框架来规划和推进循环商业模式的实施和扩展。通过探索时尚和纺织品的四种不同的循环商业模式方法来说明这一点,包括基于产品耐用性的模型;基于租赁、租赁、共享的接入模式;服装收集及转售;以及材料的回收和再利用。对于每种业务模型类型,我们将讨论基于技术和社会创新以及政策、行为变化和教育的促成因素。
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引用次数: 15
Comment on Ulrich Brand et al., “From planetary to societal boundaries” 评Ulrich Brand等人的《从地球到社会边界》
Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-06-15 DOI: 10.1080/15487733.2022.2082124
B. Alcott
Abstract While agreeing with the science of the “planetary boundaries” work of Johan Rockström and colleagues, as well as their normative support for political measures to restrict the human economy to the realm inside those boundaries, a recent article by Brand et al. in this journal criticizes the former mainly on the grounds that they pay too little attention to capitalism’s alleged growth imperative and to certain technocratic and/or global-only interpretations to which the planetary boundaries framework is dangerously open. I argue that Brand et al. do not refute or disagree with Rockström et al., as they claim, but rather point out what the latter omit. Rockström et al. consciously limited the scope of their work, and therefore a polemical criticism of their omissions is not justified. I also argue against the centrality of the concept “capitalism” in Brand et al.’s critique, claiming that growth/degrowth analyses and strategies for degrowth do not need to go into the issues of capitalism vs. alternatives to it because drivers of growth are deeper than such systems concepts allow us to investigate. Capitalism and socialism do explain some things, but mainly, they themselves have to be explained in a full analysis of both over-growth and what to do about it politically in democracies. Shifts toward acceptance of material-energy limitations must be psychological and social, whatever the economic system’s rules on such things as ownership of the means of production, economic-power equality, the money system, or macro-economic incentives to growth.
虽然同意Johan Rockström及其同事关于“行星边界”的科学研究,以及他们对将人类经济限制在这些边界内的政治措施的规范性支持,布兰德等人最近在本刊上发表的一篇文章批评了前者,主要理由是他们对资本主义所谓的增长必要性和某些技术官僚和/或全球唯一的解释关注太少,而地球边界框架是危险的开放。我认为布兰德等人并没有反驳或不同意Rockström等人的观点,而是指出了后者所忽略的东西。Rockström等人有意识地限制了他们的工作范围,因此对他们的遗漏的争论性批评是不合理的。我也反对布兰德等人的批判中“资本主义”概念的中心地位,声称增长/去增长分析和去增长战略不需要进入资本主义与替代资本主义的问题,因为增长的驱动因素比这些系统概念允许我们调查的更深。资本主义和社会主义确实解释了一些事情,但最主要的是,它们本身必须在对过度增长的全面分析中加以解释,以及在民主国家如何从政治上解决这一问题。接受物质能源限制的转变必须是心理上的和社会上的,无论经济体系的规则是什么,比如生产资料的所有权、经济权力的平等、货币体系或宏观经济增长的激励。
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引用次数: 1
Building back normal? An investigation of practice changes in the charitable and on-the-go food provision sectors through COVID-19 恢复正常?对2019冠状病毒病期间慈善和流动食品供应行业实践变化的调查
Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1080/15487733.2022.2076352
Steffen Hirth, Filippo Oncini, F. Boons, Bob Doherty
Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about debates on rethinking food and other socio-technical systems. While swiftly re-establishing normality has understandable appeal in a crisis, the landscape-level changes during the pandemic also hold windows of opportunity to “build back better” and to achieve sustainability transitions. In this article, we ask whether a cycle of disruption and adaptation results either in the rise of more sustainable niche practices or the consolidation of the socio-technical regimes in place. To approach this question, we consider the specific cases of charitable and on-the-go food provision and examine the extent to which COVID-induced adaptations have resulted in debates about, and implementations of, more just and sustainable practices. We draw on systems transitions and practice theoretical approaches to elucidate dynamics and elasticity and thus the effect of socio-technical practice changes. After describing the pre-COVID food regimes, we evaluate organizational practice adaptations during the lockdowns with regard to (1) changing cultural images of food security and provision, (2) socio-technical innovations, and (3) new forms of governance. We find that rather than justifying the public and policy frame of “building back better,” the effect of recovery measures reinforces the socio-technical regimes and omits wider sectoral and societal sustainability challenges such as the systemic reduction of poverty and waste.
2019冠状病毒病大流行引发了关于重新思考粮食和其他社会技术系统的辩论。虽然在危机中迅速恢复正常具有可以理解的吸引力,但大流行期间的景观级变化也为“更好地重建”和实现可持续性过渡提供了机会。在这篇文章中,我们提出了这样一个问题:破坏和适应的循环是否会导致更可持续的生态位实践的兴起,或者巩固现有的社会技术制度。为了解决这个问题,我们考虑了慈善和流动食品供应的具体案例,并研究了covid - 19引发的适应在多大程度上导致了关于更公正和可持续做法的辩论和实施。我们利用系统过渡和实践理论方法来阐明动态和弹性,从而影响社会技术实践的变化。在描述了疫情前的粮食制度之后,我们从以下方面评估了封锁期间的组织实践适应情况:(1)粮食安全和供应文化形象的变化,(2)社会技术创新,以及(3)新的治理形式。我们发现,恢复措施的效果并没有证明“重建得更好”的公共和政策框架是合理的,而是强化了社会技术制度,并忽略了更广泛的部门和社会可持续性挑战,如系统性地减少贫困和浪费。
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引用次数: 3
Humanizing sustainability in organizations: a place for workers’ perceptions and behaviors in sustainability indexes? 将组织的可持续性人性化:员工的感知和行为在可持续性指数中的地位?
Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-05-28 DOI: 10.1080/15487733.2022.2068751
S. Luís, I. Silva
Abstract The triple bottom line is at risk of being reduced to an accounting tool rather than serving as a paradigm for organizational sustainability. To be successful, approaches promoting organizational sustainability should be humanized, that is, to further incorporate measures of perceptions and behaviors toward the environment, the economy, and the society in their frameworks and/or indexes of sustainability. The first goal of this work is to illustrate the importance of adopting this approach by assessing employees’ perceptions and behaviors of a banking institution highly committed to sustainability, focusing on the environmental bottom line. The second goal is to contribute to understanding of the antecedents of decisive perceptions (perceived organizational support toward the environment) and behaviors (organizational citizenship behavior toward the environment) by exploring if and/or how the relation between them is moderated by organizational policies, middle-management support, and employees’ social norms. Data analyses of an online questionnaire (N = 145) showed that employees’ perceptions and behaviors were above average and allowed tailoring intervention strategies to further promote environmental sustainability. The results further evinced that middle-management support strengthened the relation between perceived organizational support and organizational citizenship behaviors toward the environment. Organizational policies had a small moderating effect that became non-significant when management support was taken into account, and employees’ social norms toward the environment had no effect. This work describes a humanized and successful way of promoting sustainability in organizations through the dynamization of sustainable policies, processes, and practices by middle managers.
三重底线有被简化为会计工具的风险,而不是作为组织可持续性的范例。为了取得成功,促进组织可持续性的方法应该人性化,即进一步将对环境、经济和社会的看法和行为的措施纳入其框架和/或可持续性指数。这项工作的第一个目标是通过评估高度致力于可持续发展的银行机构的员工的看法和行为来说明采用这种方法的重要性,重点关注环境底线。第二个目标是通过探索它们之间的关系是否和/或如何被组织政策、中层管理支持和员工的社会规范所调节,从而有助于理解决定性感知(感知到的组织对环境的支持)和行为(组织对环境的公民行为)的前因。对在线问卷(N = 145)的数据分析表明,员工的认知和行为高于平均水平,并允许定制干预策略,以进一步促进环境可持续性。研究结果进一步证明,中层管理人员的支持强化了组织支持感知与组织环境公民行为之间的关系。当考虑到管理层的支持时,组织政策有一个小的调节作用,而员工对环境的社会规范没有影响。这项工作描述了一种人性化和成功的方式,通过中层管理人员的可持续政策、流程和实践的动态化来促进组织的可持续性。
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引用次数: 0
From carbon democracy to post-fossil capitalism? The German coal phase-out as a crossroads of sustainability politics 从碳民主到后化石资本主义?德国逐步淘汰煤炭是可持续性政治的十字路口
Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-05-17 DOI: 10.1080/15487733.2022.2069542
Tobias Haas, Jeremias Herberg, David Löw-Beer
Abstract For a long time, Germany was regarded as a pioneer in climate policy. Recently, conflicts have intensified over the phase-out of coal from the energy sector. In 2020, the German Bundestag created the legal basis for a coal phase-out by 2038, subsequently revised to 2030 by the new coalition government of September 2021. This article analyzes the recent controversies from a political-economy perspective and shows the interrelationships and tensions between capitalism, democracy, and sustainability within Germany. In particular, the rise of right-wing populist attitudes opposing a coal phase-out, highlights the conflictual character and the social embeddedness of sustainability politics. The analysis of the conflicts surrounding the coal phase-out makes it possible to situate the future of energy supply in the overall societal context.
长期以来,德国被视为气候政策的先驱。最近,在能源部门逐步淘汰煤炭的问题上,冲突加剧。2020年,德国联邦议院制定了到2038年逐步淘汰煤炭的法律基础,随后由2021年9月的新联合政府修订为2030年。本文从政治经济的角度分析了最近的争议,并展示了德国资本主义、民主和可持续性之间的相互关系和紧张关系。特别是,反对逐步淘汰煤炭的右翼民粹主义态度的兴起,突显了可持续性政治的冲突特征和社会嵌入性。对逐步淘汰煤炭的冲突进行分析,可以把能源供应的未来置于整个社会背景中考虑。
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引用次数: 4
Reworking boundaries in the home-as-office: boundary traffic during COVID-19 lockdown and the future of working from home 在家办公的边界重塑:COVID-19封锁期间的边界交通和在家工作的未来
Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-05-17 DOI: 10.1080/15487733.2022.2063097
U. Wethal, Katherine Ellsworth-Krebs, A. Hansen, Sejal Changede, G. Spaargaren
Abstract The COVID-19 crisis has led to an unprecedented acceleration in the number of people working from home (WFH). This article applies a practice theoretical lens to expand the pre-pandemic telework literature which often overlooks how WFH is part of complex socio-material arrangements. Based on 56 household interviews in the UK, the United States, and Norway during lockdown in Spring 2020, we reveal the everyday realities of WFH, exploring their implications for the future of work. Developing the concept of boundary traffic, which refers to the additional interaction and collision of a range of everyday practices normally separated in time and space when working outside the home, we provide some insights into how disruption and de- and re-routinization vary by household type, space, and employer’s actions. Much teleworking scholarship highlights technological and spatial flexibility of work, without recognizing the mundane realities of WFH when there is no space for a large computer monitor, preferences to be with children even when a secluded home office is available, or a feeling that important social connections diminish when working on a virtual basis. We discuss the future of work in relation to digitalization, social inequality, and environmental sustainability and conclude by stressing how WFH cannot be understood as merely a technical solution to work-life flexibility. Rather, lockdown-induced WFH has deeply changed the meaning and content of homes as households have resolved the spatial, material, social, and temporal aspects of boundary traffic when embedding work into the domestic practice-bundle.
2019冠状病毒病危机导致在家工作的人数空前增加。本文运用实践理论视角来扩展流行病前远程工作文献,这些文献往往忽略了远程工作如何成为复杂的社会物质安排的一部分。根据2020年春季封锁期间在英国、美国和挪威进行的56个家庭访谈,我们揭示了WFH的日常现实,探讨了它们对未来工作的影响。发展边界交通的概念,它指的是在家庭之外工作时,在时间和空间上通常分离的一系列日常实践的额外互动和碰撞,我们提供了一些关于破坏、去常规化和重新常规化如何因家庭类型、空间和雇主的行为而变化的见解。许多远程办公学术强调了工作的技术和空间灵活性,而没有认识到WFH的世俗现实,当没有空间放置大型电脑显示器时,即使有隐蔽的家庭办公室也喜欢和孩子在一起,或者在虚拟基础上工作时重要的社会联系减少的感觉。我们讨论了与数字化、社会不平等和环境可持续性相关的未来工作,并强调WFH不能仅仅被理解为工作与生活灵活性的技术解决方案。相反,由于家庭将工作嵌入到家庭实践中,解决了边界交通的空间、物质、社会和时间方面的问题,封锁导致的WFH深刻地改变了家庭的意义和内容。
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引用次数: 16
“What is to be sustained?”: Perpetuating systemic injustices through sustainable fashion “什么是可持续的?”:通过可持续的时尚使系统性的不公正永久化
Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-05-16 DOI: 10.1080/15487733.2022.2069996
Otto von Busch
Abstract There seems to be a consensus across both the fashion system and academia that “fast fashion” has a problem with sustainability. An increase in consumption of cheap and accessible clothing is behind the rise in extraction and pollution across the world seems obvious, and often the solutions offered span from material and technical solutions to awareness-raising and ethical education of consumers. But most of these interventions either implicitly or explicitly push blame on the consumers of cheap goods. It is “they” who consume too much, the consumers of cheap garments. While goods and behaviors readily available to the upper strata of society are deemed sustainable, it is the aspirational consumption of less affluent consumers that needs to be rectified. This article examines how the general discourse on sustainable fashion strikes unevenly at the lower rungs of social hierarchies, amplifying differences in privilege and wealth while also moralizing, preaching down to, and denigrating the desires of the poor. Using Felix Guattari’s framework of the three ecologies, the discussion examines some familiar tropes in sustainability discourse, focusing on three lines: the emphasis on industrial and technological solutionism, the undermining of democratic principles, and the emotional besmirching of aspirations. These three tendencies add up to a contemporary equivalent of sumptuary laws aiming to hold back the social mobility and lowly desires of the masses. While this may not be the intent of the promoters of sustainable fashion, a thoughtless and single-minded critique of fast fashion impacts the dissemination of agency and blame across the definitions of sustainability. The article calls for practitioners to examine the premises of sustainable fashion more closely. Any serious discussion around fashion must start with the question: What is to be sustained?
时尚界和学术界似乎都一致认为,“快时尚”存在可持续性问题。世界各地开采和污染的增加背后是对廉价和方便服装消费的增加,这似乎是显而易见的,而提供的解决方案往往涵盖从材料和技术解决方案到提高消费者意识和道德教育。但这些干预措施大多或明或暗地将责任推给了廉价商品的消费者。消费太多的是“他们”,廉价服装的消费者。虽然社会上层容易获得的商品和行为被认为是可持续的,但需要纠正的是不那么富裕的消费者的渴望消费。本文探讨了关于可持续时尚的一般论述如何在社会等级较低的阶层中不均匀地罢工,放大特权和财富的差异,同时也道德化,说教,贬低穷人的欲望。利用Felix Guattari的三种生态框架,讨论探讨了可持续发展话语中一些熟悉的比喻,重点关注三条线:强调工业和技术解决方案主义,破坏民主原则,以及对愿望的情感玷污。这三种倾向加起来就相当于当代的奢侈品法,旨在抑制社会流动性和大众的低级欲望。虽然这可能不是可持续时尚的推动者的意图,但对快时尚的轻率和一门心思的批评影响了可持续性定义的代理和指责的传播。文章呼吁从业者更密切地审视可持续时尚的前提。任何关于时尚的严肃讨论都必须从这个问题开始:什么是可持续的?
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引用次数: 0
Selling sustainability: investigating how Swedish fashion brands communicate sustainability to consumers 销售可持续发展:调查瑞典时尚品牌如何向消费者传达可持续发展
Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-05-16 DOI: 10.1080/15487733.2022.2068225
T. Brydges, C. Henninger, M. Hanlon
Abstract Over the last thirty years, sustainability has become a growing concern in the fashion industry. While there is agreement among a growing range of actors regarding the need to engage with the social and environmental challenges created by the fashion industry, there is less consent regarding what sustainability entails. Although “sustainability” may be intuitively understood, it has different meanings, depending on how it is applied, and who it is applied by. Without a clear-cut definition, sustainability becomes subjective. In this context, there is a need for research at the intersection of brand-sustainability initiatives and their communication to consumers, who play a vital role in this transition. Drawing on a case study of the Swedish fashion industry, we explore how evolving industrial business models and emerging best practices are informed by a robust understanding of sustainability. We evaluate how brands communicate sustainability to consumers across three key sites: brand websites (including corporate social responsibility reports), social media platforms, and in-store campaigns. We found that not only do brands use a range of practices to define sustainability differently, but furthermore, these definitions vary depending on the context. Considering the industry’s ongoing history with greenwashing, it is vital to address and confront this issue head on. We argue that there is a need to determine what constitutes sustainability in the fashion industry and, in turn, hold businesses to that standard. As COVID-19 has only magnified and intensified these challenges, the article explores the implications of a more robust approach for both theory and practice.
在过去的三十年里,可持续性已经成为时尚界越来越关注的问题。尽管越来越多的参与者都认为有必要应对时尚业带来的社会和环境挑战,但对于可持续发展的内涵,人们的共识却越来越少。虽然“可持续性”可以直观地理解,但它有不同的含义,这取决于它如何应用,以及由谁应用。如果没有明确的定义,可持续性就会变得主观。在这种背景下,有必要研究品牌可持续发展倡议与消费者沟通的交集,消费者在这一转变中起着至关重要的作用。通过对瑞典时尚行业的案例研究,我们探讨了如何通过对可持续性的深刻理解来了解不断发展的工业商业模式和新兴的最佳实践。我们评估了品牌如何通过三个关键网站向消费者传达可持续发展:品牌网站(包括企业社会责任报告)、社交媒体平台和店内活动。我们发现,品牌不仅使用一系列不同的实践来定义可持续性,而且这些定义因环境而异。考虑到该行业正在进行的“绿色清洗”历史,解决和直面这个问题至关重要。我们认为,有必要确定什么构成了时尚行业的可持续性,进而使企业遵守这一标准。由于COVID-19只是放大和加剧了这些挑战,本文探讨了在理论和实践方面采取更强有力的方法的意义。
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引用次数: 11
Drivers and barriers to fashion rental for everyday garments: an empirical analysis of a former fashion-rental company 日常服装时装租赁的驱动因素与障碍:对一家前时装租赁公司的实证分析
Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-05-11 DOI: 10.1080/15487733.2022.2065774
M. Bodenheimer, J. Schuler, Thekla Wilkening
Abstract We analyze the business models of online business-to-consumer (B2C) fashion rental and share challenges and lessons learned from an in-depth case study of a former German fashion-rental company. The firm focused on renting everyday, rather than special occasion, clothing, thus increasing the potential sustainability impact of its offer significantly. We also examine drivers and barriers of both an everyday children’s wear and a women’s wear rental model by incorporating both retailer and consumer perspectives through business data, manager interviews, and consumer surveys with customer and target groups. All data were merged into a single, in-depth analysis of the business models. By combining the complementary viewpoints of retailer and consumers, we were able to more precisely pinpoint the locations of the difficulties in the business models. The main barriers to success were the worsening quality of the company’s inventory and its difficulty acquiring and retaining customers, due both to a lack of familiarity with the concept of fashion rental and the poorly perceived price-performance ratio of fashion rental. These issues suggest that online-fashion rental should begin by focusing on special occasion rentals with more high-end fashion options and should plan a sizeable budget for marketing to raise consumer awareness of alternatives to traditional retail models and alleviate customer concerns. If such a rental model is successful and establishes a stable customer base, everyday fashion-rental options could be explored as a supplement. The article demonstrates the importance of integrating different data sources to obtain a comprehensive understanding of why online-rental models fail or succeed.
摘要本文分析了在线B2C (business-to-consumer)时装租赁的商业模式,并通过对德国一家前时装租赁公司的深入案例分析,分享了其面临的挑战和经验教训。该公司专注于租用日常服装,而不是特殊场合的服装,从而大大增加了其提供的潜在可持续性影响。我们还结合零售商和消费者的视角,通过商业数据、经理访谈和消费者对客户和目标群体的调查,研究了日常童装和女装租赁模式的驱动因素和障碍。所有的数据被合并成一个单一的、深入的商业模型分析。通过结合零售商和消费者的互补观点,我们能够更精确地指出商业模式中的困难所在。成功的主要障碍是公司库存质量的恶化,以及难以获得和留住客户,这都是由于对时装租赁概念的不熟悉,以及时装租赁的性价比不佳。这些问题表明,在线时装租赁应该从提供更多高端时装选择的特殊场合租赁开始,并应该计划一笔可观的营销预算,以提高消费者对传统零售模式替代品的认识,并减轻消费者的担忧。如果这种租赁模式成功,并建立了稳定的客户群,可以探索日常时尚租赁选择作为补充。本文展示了整合不同数据源的重要性,以便全面了解在线租赁模式失败或成功的原因。
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