In response to growing instability and a perceived over-commercialization also of luxury brands, there is a trend among consumers to search for meaning and for experiences that feel genuine. The “humanization” of brands may feed the consumers growing desire for authenticity. This paper combines the brand personality concept and brand anthropomorphization and introduces the notion of personality-driven brand management especially for luxury brands and high-end cultural and creative businesses. After an introduction into the concept of brand personality, and with reference to identitydriven brand management, we explain what personality-driven brand management actually means. When the focal point of brand management shifts to the enlivened brand, the brand personality becomes the main source of inspiration for brand-building and influences all branding decisions. With personality-driven branding, managers may leverage the full potential of brand anthropomorphization. For instance, it can help to turn the brand into a strong character, which can spark the employee’s enthusiasm and thus also the customer’s passion for the brand. As a prerequisite of (internal) brand anthropomorphization, managers need to decide what kind of person they would like their brand to represent. For this purpose, they can consult a framework of brand personality dimensions for some guidance. A central part of this paper is a study about the major dimensions of luxury brand personality. Results suggest that there exist five distinct luxury personality dimensions including tradition, modesty, elitism, eccentricity, and sensuality. They help brand managers to develop distinct brand personalities by encouraging them to decide between contrasting traits. After presenting the major strategies to bring a luxury brand personality alive, the paper discusses the benefits of personality-based brand management and concludes with some major lessons learned.

Given the recent modest growth of the personal luxury good market and the urge to face difficulties through innovative brands’ marketing communication strategies, this paper examines the potentialities of tactical associations between luxury fashion brands and furniture design. Results indicate that there can be positive repercussions deriving from luxury fashion brands and furniture design interconnections. In particular, associations with collectable furniture design may help to define and enhance brands’ luxury values whilst providing consumers with innovative and creative luxury brand experiences. Future expectations in this market show a compound annual rate (CAGR) of 3% to 4% through 2020, to just about €280 billion. This is dramatically slower than the past fast growth experienced from the mid-1990s to the late 2000s. In this scenario, luxury fashion managers and marketers must envision new strategies to succeed and surpass competition. In order to be competitive and successful, luxury brand managers must take into account current market dynamics and find pertinent and substantial solutions. This paper shifts its attention to the identification of how in such a difficult scenario different cultural industries can meet in order to mutually enhance their circuits of value. Some studies have demonstrated that in order to meet such new global challenges, luxury fashion firms may discover strategic opportunities in art (Codignola, 2016). Given their symbolic connotation and aesthetic value, high-end furniture design items are more and more perceived as art works exchanged in art auctions or fairs, collected and purchased by collectors, exhibited in galleries or museums. At the same time, furniture design goods show some divergences from conventional art works (i.e. functionality, reproducibility, etc.) and some correspondences with fashion goods. By observing the luxury fashion sector, one may then find--for different sets of reasons--more than one interesting intersection with the furniture design sector. By taking into account the furniture design sector within its specific market features and goods, this paper argues that through furniture design LFBs can develop engaging creative and innovative brands’ marketing communication strategies. Compared to art, such strategies would be able to add value and strengthen LFBs’ luxury features even in a more effective way.

창조경제는 새정부 출범과 함께 제시된 새로운 경제발전의 패러다임이다. 정 부가 창조경제 정책을 추진한지 3년째를 맞이하고 있으나 창조경제의 규모와 추진 성과에 대한 실감형 분석체계는 부족한 편이다. 이에 본 연구에서는 창조경제 정책 추진의 경제적 파급효과를 정량적으로 추정하기 위한 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 먼저 국내외 창조경제 문헌 검토를 통해 문화⋅콘텐츠, SW 산업 등 외국에서 정의되었던 창조경제의 범위를 협의의 창 조산업군으로 정의하고, 우리 정부에서 제시한 고기술⋅첨단제조업, 과학기술서비스업 등을 추가적으로 포괄하여 광의의 창조산업군을 정의하였다. 다음으로 각 산업군 별로 창조경제 의 핵심 동인 중 하나인 ICT기반 혁신에 따른 투입-산출의 연도별 증감액을 추정하고 산업 연관분석을 통해 창조산업 내 ICT 기반 혁신이 전체 산업에 미치는 경제적 파급효과를 추 정하였다. 분석 결과 2013년 이후 전반적인 경기 하락세에서도 광의의 창조산업에서의 ICT기반 혁 신이 전 산업의 생산, 부가가치 및 고용유발효과의 상승세를 견인하고 있음을 확인할 수 있 었다. 그러나 협의의 창조산업군에서는 ICT기반 혁신의 경제적 파급효과의 증가가 미미한 것을 확인하였다. 본 연구는 크게 두 가지 관점에서 이론적, 정책적 의의가 있다. 첫째로 기 존의 창조경제 성과지표가 투입 역량 중심으로 되어 있어 가시적 효과를 산정하기 어려운 상 황에서 산업연관분석을 통한 산출 중심의 성과를 추정하는 새로운 방법론적 토대를 제공하 였다. 두 번째로 기존의 창조산업 파급효과가 단순히 해당 산업군의 규모 추정에 그쳐 추상 적이고 모호하였다면, 본 분석에서는 창조산업의 전체 규모 중에서 ICT기반 혁신활동이 설 명하는 파급효과를 구체적으로 산출하여 효과 산정의 타당성과 신뢰성을 높였다는 점이다.