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Communicating Seduction: Luxury Fashion Advertisements in Video Campaigns
Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Media Studies, Fashion Studies.
2018 (English)In: Studies in Communication Sciences, ISSN 1424-4896, E-ISSN 2296-4150, Vol. 18, no 2, p. 353-363Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This study examines the different themes of communication that take place in video ad campaigns deriving from the French luxury fashion houses Louis Vuitton, Dior, Chanel, Cartier and Hermès. By using semiology as a method we were able to recognize the themes of adventure, seduction, love and play in the videos. This study explores also how the myth becomes an important meaning-maker of the luxury commodity and fills it with sensations and pleasure. Unlike all other ads, we could see that the meaning of luxury in the Hermès’ ones was not directly connected to the objects per se but to the experience of human senses in contact with nature. We could further conclude that the visual communication of the ads has no need to be logical as long as it can seduce with its positive signs. The object of luxury constitutes a strong communication tool helping the viewer to discover new places, to fall in love, to create magic and to experience the amusement of play. Embedded in recognizable social narratives, the objects in the moving image are provided with a seductive meaning able to support the eternal myth of luxury.

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2018. Vol. 18, no 2, p. 353-363
Keywords [en]
Video advertisement, communication, luxury, myth, seduction
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Cultural Studies Media and Communications
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Fashion Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-157004DOI: 10.24434/j.scoms.2018.02.010OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-157004DiVA, id: diva2:1214115
Available from: 2018-06-05 Created: 2018-06-05 Last updated: 2022-02-26Bibliographically approved

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