Industri
fashion merupakan industri yang perkembangannya selalu meningkat dan Indonesia berkontribusi terbesar kesembilan di dunia. Perkembangan industri
fashion dalam negeri didukung dengan adanya kampanye untuk mencintai produk lokal.
Fashion brand lokal memanfaatkan media sosial sebagai wadah untuk berkomunikasi dengan pelanggannya untuk menciptakan
customer engagement. Sehingga penting untuk mengetahui faktor yang mendorong
customer engagement seperti
advice seeking, self-image expression dan
fashion involvement. Selain itu,
customer engagement juga berpengaruh akan terbentuknya
brand intimacy. Penelitian ini membangun
customer engagement sebagai
second-order construct yang didalamnya terdapat
consumption, contribution, dan
creation. Survei dilakukan secara online dengan 262 responden yang kemudian diolah datanya menggunakan pemodelan
Partial Least Squares - Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa factor yang mempengaruhi
customer engagement adalah
advice seeking, self-image expression, dan
fashion involvement, customer engagement memiliki pengaruh terhadap
brand intimacy dan diketahui pula bahwa perbedaan generasi tidak mempengaruhi hasil secara signifikan.
Fashion industry is an industry whose development is always increasing and Indonesia contributes the ninth largest in the world. The development of the domestic fashion industry is supported by a campaign to love local products. Local fashion brands use social media as a platform to communicate with their customers to create customer engagement. So it is important to know the factors that drive customer engagement such as advice seeking, self-image expression and fashion involvement. In addition, customer engagement also affects the formation of brand intimacy. This study builds customer engagement as a second-order construct in which there is consumption, contribution, and creation. The survey was conducted online with 262 respondents and the data was analyzed using Partial Least Squares - Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) modeling. The results showed that the factors that influence customer engagement are advice seeking, self-image expression, and fashion involvement, customer engagement has an influence on brand intimacy and it is also known that generational differences do not significantly affect results.