Abstract:
The increasing role of Generation Asia, the newest generation of consumers, has become a source of substantial purchasing power in the global market. Categorized by their urban lifestyle and fashion needs with careful mix between contemporary East and West, they are ready to embrace cultural products with creative designs. This study aims to investigate methods to create Innovation on Fashion Lifestyle Brand from Bangkok Cultural Capital and to investigate methods to design products from cultural capital for Generation Asia. This study is divided into three parts. First is to study lifestyle and fashion needs of the consumers. Respondents were 444 Generation Asia consumers in Thailand, aged 18-35, through questionnaires developed by the researchers, with the value of Index of Item Objective Congruence (IOC) of 0.932 and the value of Cronbachs alpha of 0.748. Second is to study the identity of Bangkok Cultural Capital, using Delphi Analysis technique, based on opinions and information expressed by 5 experts, with the value of net change of 0.50. Third is to identity the process of creative design of prototypes. Results from the research on Innovation of Fashion Lifestyle Brand: Bangkok Cultural Capital for Generation Asia are as follow: 1. Methods to create Fashion Lifestyle Brands from Cultural Capital. It was found that it comprised four intertwined components: 1) consumers in terms of their lifestyle, behaviors and fashion needs; 2) trends, that is, mega trend and fashion trend; 3) culture, that is tangible culture and intangible culture; and 4) innovation in terms of knowledge and creativity idea. 2. Methods to create Fashion Lifestyle products from Bangkok Cultural Capital for Generation Asia. It was found that it was a mixture of several elements: tangible cultural elements in terms of aesthetic components of design, that is, shapes, colors, surfaces and decorative details; and intangible cultural elements in terms of lifestyle, behavior, fashion needs of urban consumers focusing on simplicity and minimalism, and awareness of fashion trend. These methods to create Fashion Lifestyle brands and Fashion Lifestyle products from Bangkok Cultural Capital for Generation Asia reflect fashion personalities of these new waves of Asia urbanites, underlying the importance of cultural application through creative designs, which, in turn, must be in line with their lifestyle and consumers fashion needs contemporarily