Attitude towards fashion advertisements with political content: impacts of opinion leadership and perception of advertisement message

Fashion advertisements with political content are unique in that they go against the accepted strategy of advertising. As fashion advertisements with political content become more prevalent, consumers' reactions to them become an important subject of research. This study examines consumers' attitudes towards fashion advertisements with political content with respect to fashion and political opinion leadership, political views, perception of advertisement message and product attitude. Results showed that attitude towards advertisements with political content was influenced significantly by the viewer's political views and agreement with the advertisement message, but not by political opinion leadership. Fashion opinion leadership influenced product attitude only for advertisements without political content. The viewers' advertisement attitudes were carried over to product attitudes regardless of the presence of political message.