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Guest post: Met Gala on Black Style: Superfine or Superflop?

How to move from creating brand affinity to managing the brand context

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Claire Gallon
Oct 17, 2024
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In this week’s guest post, Claire Gallon, Partner at the Salmon Consulting, Board Member at 17H10, and Professor at the Paris School of Luxury unpacks the implications of the latest Met Gala theme through the lens of two analytical concepts - affinity (which creates positive brand associations) and positionality (which considers a brand in context) - to…

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Partner at The Salmon Consulting. Professor at Paris School of Luxury. Author in "GenZ and luxury" available on October 24th
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