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English translation: recognising/identifying one\'s style affinities

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Italian term or phrase:	cogliere le proprie affinità di stile
English translation:	recognising/identifying one\'s style affinities
Entered by:	Juliet Halewood

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08:42 May 23, 2011

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Advertising / Public Relations / Luxury magazine

Italian term or phrase: cogliere le proprie affinità di stile

La nuova segmentazione luxury del mercato contemporaneo, non è più
ascrivibile solo a caratteristiche socio demografiche o a specifici stili di vita ma,
trova la sua massima espressione nel saper cogliere le proprie affinità di stile in
svariati ambiti, utilizzando i mezzi e le metodologie più consone al proprio mood.

I'm struggling with "proprie affinità" here. Thanks for any help!

Juliet Halewood KudoZ activity Questions: 816 (9 open) (12 without valid answers) (46 closed without grading) Answers: 300
Local time: 02:26

recognising/identifying one's style affinities

Explanation:
I'd keep the term "affinity". It has a technical meaning in marketing and there are other technical terms in the text.

Here the reference is to top-end consumers (as ljane notes, there is an implied change of subject in "saper cogliere") who find gratification in recognising the types or brands of luxury product appropriate to their life-style in a range of social contexts.

Selected response from:

Giles Watson
Local time: 02:26

Grading comment

Thanks Giles!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +1

to realise one's own stylistic inclinations

Michael Korovkin

4 +1

recognising/identifying one's style affinities

Giles Watson

expressing your natural stylistic sympathies

Oliver Lawrence

recognizing one's own affinity with...

Fiorsam

capturing/reflecting one's own style

Leanne Young

finding his own stile identity ( stylistic expression)

corallia

understanding (one's own) personal style

ljane

Discussion entries: 1

Answers

11 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

to realise one's own stylistic inclinations

Explanation:
or "to become more aware of one's own stylistic inclinations"

Michael Korovkin
Local time: 02:26
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English,

Russian

12 mins confidence:

expressing your natural stylistic sympathies

Explanation:
perhaps
(with this, you wouldn't translate the preceding 'massima espressione' literally, of course)

Oliver Lawrence
Italy
Local time: 02:26
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 127

55 mins confidence:

understanding (one's own) personal style

Explanation:
...in different/in a variety of...
...applied to different/ to a variety....

It's not exactly clear whether 'proprie' refers to the sector or to the customer though..maybe your context could shed some light.

ljane
Local time: 02:26
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English,

Italian

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thanks ljane. It's not clear from the rest of the context who 'proprie' refers to, but I'm guessing it's the customer.

2 hrs confidence:

finding his own stile identity ( stylistic expression)

Explanation:
...possibile

corallia
Local time: 02:26
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Romanian
PRO pts in category: 4

2 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

recognising/identifying one's style affinities

Giles Watson
Local time: 02:26
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 12

Grading comment

Thanks Giles!

3 hrs confidence:

capturing/reflecting one's own style

Explanation:
I don't think you can be too literal about this one.

Example sentence(s):

this is my take...

Leanne Young
Italy
Local time: 02:26
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English

5 hrs confidence:

recognizing one's own affinity with...

Explanation:
...

Fiorsam
Local time: 20:26
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Italian
PRO pts in category: 8

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