Fashion: The rise of sports brands
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Twenty-five years ago Puma became the first big sports brand to collaborate with a fashion house.
Since then all of the big players have been collaborating with celebrities, sports stars and high fashion brands.
Hannah Mullane speaks to Heiko Desens, the creative director at Puma about how these big collaborations work behind the scenes and what they mean for business, and fashion designer Alejandro Gómez Palomo explains how collaborating with a sports brand has elevated his business.
Presenter/Producer: Hannah Mullane
(Picture: Rihanna at the Puma fashion show. Credit: Getty Images)
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| 0:27.2 | This week, we're taking a look at the global fashion industry. |
| 0:30.7 | And today, we're talking trainers and track suits. |
| 0:34.3 | Once items exclusively reserved for the sports field, |
| 0:39.9 | now they're everywhere, from the office to the catwalk. |
| 0:43.4 | So how did the fashion and sports world collide? |
| 0:47.6 | It all started 25 years ago when German sports brand Puma became the first in the market |
| 0:52.9 | to collaborate with a high fashion brand. |
| 0:55.3 | They chose fashion house, Jill Sander. |
| 0:57.9 | I think when they started, they didn't really put a lot of expectations towards it, |
| 1:01.9 | but it became obvious very soon that there is, first of all, a commercial potential |
| 1:07.4 | because of the fashion market from a bigger narrative. |
| 1:10.7 | I think the importance |
| 1:11.7 | only stepped up after talking about the marriage between sports and fashion. |
| 1:20.0 | Since then, the brand has continued to collaborate with fashion designers and celebrities |
| 1:24.2 | all around the world, and so have their competitors, |
| 1:30.8 | forging partnerships worth billions of dollars to the industry. |
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