Madonna

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"Madonna has a fleet of vehicles – record labels, videos, movies, her own business empire and, above all, her cultivation of the media. Madonna is always ready with a controversial pose or something newsworthy. She is needy – she needs leverage. She derives it through talented video producers, film directors, sound producers, and goodness knows who else. Her credibility flows from her permanent presence in the media."

"After Lagerfeld's criticism, Madonna's collection is sold in larger editions, although it is still limited. The designer collaborations are not meant to take up more than a small share of H&M's total sales. Instead, it's about marketing that can be worth several billion in terms of media exposure. "H&M is a bit everyday like that, but now it's been spruced up a bit," says a customer to SVT and means that she herself has changed her opinion about H&M through the Madonna collaboration. Once the global stars have attracted customers to the store, H&M can also sell its basic goods, socks, underwear, t-shirts, which have been manufactured long in advance in huge editions with much higher profit margins than the special collections."

"In Stockholm, a gigantic billboard featuring Madonna in her own H&M-designed clothes is put up, covering an entire facade at Stureplan. The combination of Madonna, sex, and cheap designer clothes creates chaos as customers queue early in the morning and nearly fight over the clothes. The opening at the flagship store on Hamngatan in Stockholm is like nothing else. The first ten customers receive a trench coat with Madonna's autograph. The collection consists of about thirty garments and ten accessories. A dress costs 300 kronor and the trench coat 800 kronor."

"First, the global marketing chief leaves. Then even Jörgen Andersson, who many saw as the obvious candidate for CEO and was the one who carried out groundbreaking fashion collaborations with names like Karl Lagerfeld and Madonna.[118](private://read/01jas9tvg84jycb27616w1f9k8/#note-118)"