In 1845, as Charles Lewis Tiffany releases a book in order to present the brand’s latest collection, he decides to make it a marketing strategy and give the color of this book a “turquoise blue” color. The myth says that this color wasn’t chosen randomly; in fact, turquoise gems were extremely popular during the 19th Century and Tiffany wanted to promote this idea of class, refinement, and distinction. Initially the color of a collection booklet, the turquoise has become an icon of what the founder of Tiffany & Co wanted to represent by presenting his collection in “The Blue Book”.
The New York Sun said in 1906, “Tiffany has one thing in stock that you cannot buy of him for as much money as you may offer, he will only give it to you. And that
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is one of his boxes”. The boxes we are talking about, indeed, have become a luxury symbol and a cultural sign over the centuries. As mentioned above, Tiffany has created a reputation over the centuries and is undeniably one of the most prestigious jewelry brands in the world, alongside houses like Cartier, Hermès, and Van Cleef and Arpels, to only mention a few. With so many remarkable competitors fighting over the same market, how did Tiffany & Co. manage to take over the market? How is Tiffany a sign of life, and how was that image maintained for so long? The Jewelry market has been going through an ongoing development in the 20th and 21st centuries, with many different brands arising and competing with the most traditional, iconic, and famous jewelry brands. Most of these brands had the particularity to be extremely pricey and make only diamond and rubies items in order to target a specific social class, making these brands inaccessible to other lower social classes. While these brands try to stay in these high standards and stick to very high prices, Tiffany was and remains the only brand of this market to innovate in cheaper and more accessible products, such as their line “Bring back to Tiffany NY”, which is composed of bracelets and necklaces made of silver and that don’t generally cost more than two hundred dollars. This is the beginning of Tiffany’s popularization, which will know another decisive turn in 1961, when Audrey Hepburn stars in Blake Edward’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s. With this movie and more accessible prices, Tiffany & Co. definitely took over the jewelry market and seduced millions of customers around the planet. Tiffany came up with another marketing strategy that they were the first ones to ever think about: their packaging. Indeed, they were the first brand ever to be as famous for their goods than for the packaging, a blue box accompanied by a white silk ribbon. Later on, other brands like Hermès Paris, with their orange iconic boxes, took the same marketing strategy to help them get known by the grand public. Indeed, according to MarketLine’s Tiffany SWOT Analysis, “The company was ranked among top 100 global brands and top 50 US retail brands in 2013 by an industry source specializing in brand services and activities.”, which shows that Tiffany is one of the most popular brands of the popular culture we live in. The Tiffany Blue Box, which is itself trademarked along with the color, according to Klara Robert for Adweek, has become an undeniable sign of popular culture in the past decades.
Owning one of these boxes is considered a privilege, a luxury, that is sometimes accessible for a couple hundred dollars, or on the contrary for millions of dollars if we take a look at the brand’s finest jewelry lines. When someone mentions this blue color, they will usually say “Tiffany Blue”, given that everyone knows what this blue looks like. According to the same article written by Robert, the color is “the most protected color in branding”, which means that a federal government law gives the privilege to Tiffany & Co. to use this color and no one else, no matter what the purpose is. No one is allowed under any circumstance to reproduce and sell this color to a third …show more content…
party. Known as a popular graduation, birthday, wedding, or even baptism gift, Tiffany can make anyone happy with their wide range of objects, prices, and styles. The image that Tiffany has maintained for so long is the image of one of the most luxurious, classy, refined, and sophisticated among the biggest fashion and jewelry houses around the globe.
How was this image kept for so long?
The prestige of Tiffany and Co. is so important that their stores are soundly located in the world famous Avenues and streets of metropolises known for their prestigious stores. The mother house is located on New York’s Fith avenue, where everything started, but we can also find stores in Paris, London, Los Angeles, and many more. In fact, a new flagship store will soon be opening in Paris, on the famous Champs-Elysées. This store location strategy is a key point of their popularity around the world.
In fact, according to Jenny Chan for Campaign Asia Pacific, Erika Kerner, who is the vice president of marketing and communications for Asia-Pacific regions at Tiffany & Co, said: “New York does give a more modern ring to the brand, and the magic of the distinctive Tiffany Blue colour is so strong around the world that I think we've definitely helped in popularising the trend of the engagement culture. No matter what's inside the blue box, you're going to like
it!” Over the past decades, Tiffany & Co has known how to impose themselves as a leading brand of the market, thanks “their strong local presence”, their “positive brand image”, and their “reputation for its’ sterling silver jewelry”, according to Business Source Complete’s SWOT Analysis. Tiffany’s popularity also and above all revolves around engagement rings, which are, according to the brand’s 2015 business report, the most looked for and purchased item in all the stores worldwide. Getting or giving The Blue Box for a special occasion has become a fantasy that many tend to aim for. In addition, brands like Van Cleef and Arpels or Cartier are afraid that their number one competitor will completely take over the market because of their plurality and their capacity to target all generations, all budgets, and all tastes, when these two in particular can only target people from a higher social class, given that the cheapest ring from Cartier approaches a thousand dollars. For the record, “Company executives attributed the growth to a strong product mix as well as a higher gross margin.”, according to Maggie McGrath for Forbes’ website. Unquestionably one of the leading brands in jewelry worldwide, Tiffany established its popularity thanks to a good marketing strategy, which has lead to the entire population to know about what Tiffany & Co. does. Getting or giving a Tiffany engagement ring from or to the person you love is a dream and a sort of achievement for all, and getting the famous blue box that goes along with it is almost as important in most of the cases. When a brand is so popular for its collections and its packaging, we can call it a sign of popular culture to own a Tiffany Blue Box.
These two colors together are a smart idea for any company due to the emotional and psychological value behind them. Pink makes the consumer feel warm and safe while orange at the same time prompts a rush in sale and the urge to buy particularly beverages. As said before when pink is merged with a darker color such as orange it can give off the sense of sophistication, making the company seem more intelligent and upper class. (Russo, "Front End of Innovation Blog: Color Me Creative: A Visual Trip through Color Psychology") This could be argued to be logos, by making a perception of something. These colors are clearly pathos due to the emotional ties they have on a consumer the company hopes to sway in to their restaurant.
“Tiffany’s wearing a black evening dress, heels, and a diamond necklace, and her makeup and hair look perfect to me—as if she is trying too hard to look attractive, like old ladies sometimes do (Quick 47)”.
The fact that they’re 24 carrot gold indicates that she wants the best for herself and her new life. It also symbolizes her purity and strength as a person.
Ron Johnson spent a great deal of time and money to promote his ideas of “stores-within-stores” by turning floor space into an area to house several branded boutiques. He did this in order to attract a target market of a wider demographic which includes age, gender, and generation. One of the m...
Koller, V., (2008), ‘Not just a colour’: pink as a gender and sexuality marker in visual communication, Visual Communication, I (4) November p.401.
The business of today is ever growing every time and new and different things are embraced wholeheartedly. Packaging with simple pillow boxes and the print pillow boxes industry recognizes this actuality very well and attempts to come up with new designs all the time. The packaging and print company known how to make charming Custom Pillow Boxes, it very well.
and the color of the box and dot are no exception to this rule. One of
Louis Comfort Tiffany is one of America’s most acclaimed artists that began his career as a painter working under the influence of George Inness and Samuel Colman. Although he did not completely give up painting beginning in the late 1870s he did set his attention towards decorative arts and interiors.
Blue Nile is one of the largest jewelry companies that sell jewelry products online. Blue Nile was formed in the year 1999 (Arthur, 2007). It is recognized as the company with the largest volume of sales in the world. It was recognized by internet retailer, a US magazine, as established in terms of size more than three largest jewelry retailers that conduct their businesses online. It has won several business awards in its historical times. It has also been ranked as the leading company in internet based customer service by consumers in 2002. It is the only jewelry company known to have received this award. Blue Nile has been selling wedding and engagement rings to more than 80,000 partners between the year 2000 and in the mid 2006. Internet retailer also recognized Blue Nile as the leading with the best web in 2007. In 2006 it also received an award from Kiplinger’s as leading best online jewelry retailer.
Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” is a controversial play focusing on the marriage of Nora and Torvald Helmer. The play is filled with symbols that represent abstract ideas and concepts. These symbols effectively illustrate the inner conflicts that are going on between the characters. Henrik Ibsen’s use of symbolism such as the Christmas tree, the locked mailbox, the Tarantella, Dr. Rank’s calling cards, and the letters allows him to give a powerful portrayal to symbolize aspects of characters and their relationship to each other.
“A locket?” She picked up a gold, star-shaped locket on a silver chain. Looking up for a clue to the appearance of the locket, her eyes were drawn to the window where she saw a glimmer of blue.
Boxes are a common theme throughout the ad and there is a large contrast in the way Larabar is conveyed versus the competing brands. Larabar uses the phrase “little boxes” a multitude of times in the ad to show the contrast in their products. Their boxes are smaller and with that, Larabar customers are able to fit more boxes in their grocery bags (Larabar). The more the merrier. On the contrary, their competing brands, sell cardboard boxes which are larger and tend to take up more space within the bags. These cardboard boxes also have a bland, dreary look to them compared to the bright, vibrant colors of the Larabar boxes. The contrast in color supports the claim that Larabar has a sense of joy from their products compared to the dull feeling that comes across in the competing brands. Larabar declares to be different than others with their little boxes. This is continuously supported by the lyrics, “little boxes all the same” and is portrayed in the ad by aligning all the dull, cardboard boxes in perfect rows and columns, indeed, illustrating that they are all the same (Larabar). Larabar’s little boxes continue to be different from the rest, not only in ingredients, but with color and care as well. There is a sense of carelessness from their competitors with the depiction of certain boxes possessing dents or sitting in storage
Symbolism is an integral part of every play. The author uses symbolism in order to add more depth to the play. In Tennessee Williams’ play, The Glass Menagerie, he describes three separate characters, their dreams, and the harsh realities they face in a modern world. The Glass Menagerie exposes the lost dreams of a southern family and their desperate struggle to escape reality. Everyone in the play seeks refuge from their lives, attempting to escape into an imaginary world. Williams uses the fire escape as a way for the Wingfields, the protagonists of the play, to escape their real life and live an illusionary life. The fire escape portrays each of the character's need to use the fire escape as a literal exit from their own reality.
With the national economy stronger than it has been in decades, 1999 was a peak year for good old American consumerism. Timely for a generation of consumers. Nordstrom Inc., one of the nation’s oldest retail legends, approaches its 100th anniversary with over one hundred department stores across the country. Nordstrom profits by targeting untapped consumer resources in cities such as Providence whose shoppers previously crossed state lines to fill their closets and empty their bank accounts. The opening of one of their shiniest new branches, the first in Rhode Island, boasts milky marble floors, the latest in escalator design and Providence’s highest class of designer clad shoppers. Whether you are in Nashville or Anchorage, the quality of merchandise, service, and shopping environment at Nordstrom is set at a high standard. The air is thick with expensive perfume, sales clerks are smartly dressed and excitable, pink cashmere hangs delicately from the racks. Nordstrom Inc, which has done well in the stock exchange and on the internet, attempts to provide a pleasant shopping experience for customers. After a white chocolate mocha at the Nordstrom Café and three expansive floors of warm overhead lighting, most agree. People come for the atmosphere, the fashion, and if they happen to know about Leroy, they come for the music. Sometime in November, a young man from East Providence wandered into Nordstrom with a group of friends, noticed that the black Steinway on the first floor was silent, sat down, and began to play. As his fingers rolled an eclectic mix of gospel, jazz, and blues across the ivory keys, a crowd of shoppers abandoned their purchases, literally dropped their bags, to surround the piano, drawn by the music to this magnetic musician. No one had heard anything like it, especially in a department store. Stephanie in jewelry dialed Merideth on the third floor. Nineteen year old Leroy Robinson landed himself a job.