埃舍尔Escher是我们自己的奢侈品品牌
Escher is Our Own Luxury Brand
埃舍尔Escher是我们自己的奢侈品品牌
Escher is our own luxury brand
当人们谈到奢侈品时,脑海里浮现的往往是海外品牌,这是事实。但一个问题值得被认真讨论:中国作为全球最大的消费市场之一,为什么长期缺乏真正意义上的奢侈品牌?这不仅是商业问题,更是审美与文化结构问题。
When people talk about luxury goods, overseas brands often come to mind, which is a fact. But a question worth serious discussion: as one of the world's largest consumer markets, why has China long lacked truly meaningful luxury brands? This is not just a commercial issue, but also an aesthetic and cultural structural issue.
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一、奢侈品不仅是价格,而是审美话语权
1. Luxury is Not Just Price, But Aesthetic Discourse Power
奢侈品从来不只是贵,它代表的是审美判断、文化输出、长期符号。当一个国家没有自己的奢侈品牌,它在全球时尚语境中的表达权就会被削弱。消费者可以购买昂贵产品,但购买不等于拥有话语权。
Luxury is never just about being expensive; it represents aesthetic judgment, cultural output, and long-term symbols. When a country has no luxury brands of its own, its expression power in the global fashion context is weakened. Consumers can buy expensive products, but buying does not equal having discourse power.
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二、中国不缺制造能力
2. China Does Not Lack Manufacturing Capability
中国拥有成熟的供应链体系,拥有大量优秀的设计人才,拥有庞大的市场容量。缺的不是能力,缺的是长期主义的品牌构建。真正的奢侈品牌需要时间沉淀,需要承担早期的不被理解,需要拒绝短期爆款逻辑。这是一条慢路,但必须有人走。
China has a mature supply chain system, a large number of excellent design talents, and a huge market capacity. What's lacking is not capability, but long-term brand building. True luxury brands require time to precipitate, need to bear early misunderstanding, and need to reject short-term explosive model logic. This is a slow path, but someone must walk it.
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三、奢侈品牌的核心,是符号系统
3. The Core of Luxury Brands is Symbol System
国际奢侈品牌之所以强大,不只是因为历史,而是因为它们建立了稳定的符号系统,包括稳定轮廓、稳定审美、稳定价值表达。如果中国品牌始终停留在追随趋势,就无法建立自己的结构语言。中国需要的不是模仿型高端品牌,而是原创型符号品牌。
The reason why international luxury brands are powerful is not just because of history, but because they have established stable symbol systems, including stable silhouettes, stable aesthetics, and stable value expressions. If Chinese brands always stay at following trends, they cannot establish their own structural language. What China needs is not imitation-type high-end brands, but original symbol brands.
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四、为什么必须从"超级单品"开始?
4. Why Must We Start with "Super Items"?
建立一个完整奢侈品牌体系,需要漫长时间,但建立一个超级单品是第一步。超级单品是品牌的核心符号,它承担识别、记忆、传播的功能。埃舍尔Escher选择用"主角包"作为起点,不是系列堆叠,而是结构聚焦,因为只有当一个产品成为符号,品牌才有基础。
Building a complete luxury brand system takes a long time, but building a super item is the first step. Super items are the core symbols of a brand, bearing the functions of recognition, memory, and communication. Escher chose the "Hero Bag" as a starting point, not through series stacking, but through structural focus, because only when a product becomes a symbol does the brand have a foundation.
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五、奢侈品牌是一种长期判断
5. Luxury Brands Are a Long-term Judgment
奢侈品牌不是靠一两年建立,也不是靠价格标签完成,它是一种对时间的承担能力,对审美的坚持能力,对结构的稳定能力。如果中国要拥有真正意义上的奢侈品牌,必须有人从零开始构建。
Luxury brands are not built in one or two years, nor completed by price tags; they are a capacity to bear time, a capacity to persist in aesthetics, and a capacity to stabilize structure. If China wants to have truly meaningful luxury brands, someone must build them from scratch.