What happens when demographic fronteers are not enough to classify consumer profiles anymore? How to predict the behaviour of a generation increasingly fluid? For a research method to be efficient, it needs see beyond the hierarchy of “normal”. The norm is dead, and with that, it does not make sense anymore to classify consumers by gender, age or social class.
How do we brake consumerism in a society ruled by brands and companies? Microtrends are showing our entire zeitgeist is turning to “less is more”. Consumers are getting more and more conscious. They are embracing new marketing models, capable to attend their needs and cravings with less harming impacts.
The quickness of changes in human behavior blurs the concept of generation. Youth no longer bares the title of unquestionable inspiration, excluding age as a matter of the contemporary. More than inclusion, there is also a market interest in this subject: the acknowledgment of a new class of consumers.
For some time now, an inversion of the masculine and feminine codes is happening in fashion, breaking predefined norms and dated notions of genre. It is a freedom from stereotypes, some kind of illusory game some interpret as unissex. New shapes of business start to pop up everywhere in the world, providing options for the share of customers in lack of brands that follow their ideas about gender.
Fashion consumption has been reviewed. Ethical issues are on the table and start being accounted for in buying decisions. When the wrongdoings of the industry come to surface, consumption becomes a conscious political act. Today brands are listening to the rejection by consumers of scandals that degrade human life. The awakening to a more evolved habit of consumption might reach even higher levels in the next few years.
