Music for Fashion Shows

If you’re a fashion event organizer you should already know the fundamental role played by background music in this type of shows.

As you know, a catwalk is much more than what the attendees ultimately see: people of great beauty and elegant clothes.

We can even make a similarity with a film in which the models are the main actors, the designers are the directors, the catwalk is the set and the background music is the soundtrack.

If you make a bad decision on any of these elements, you can spoil a very good line of clothing due to a defect in your presentation, that is, a whole year -or more- of work can be thrown overboard in a few minutes.

For this to not to happen to you, I will explain the possible functions that an element as essential as music can have, and later we will see where you can easily buy it:

Music regarding the attendees

Music has always played an important role in transmitting emotions and sensations to the public and, obviously, the catwalks are no exception in that sense.

The importance of this sound element is very easy to explain, even without words.

As simple as if you do the exercise right now to try to imagine a fashion show without any music.

Now imagine for a moment what kind of catastrophic and boring a parade would be with the models walking and posing with a sound environment formed by uncomfortable silences, background comments from the attendees, camera noises when taking photographs, etc.

Yeah… weird, right?

In fact, fashion shows can sometimes seem a bit monotonous in terms of protocol and it is in that precise monotony that music comes big into play.

Music turns that event into something different and unique, at the same time imposing a rhythm that keeps the audience awake and attentive at all times.

Therefore, the function of background music goes beyond preventing attendees from resting their heads on their seats and closing their eyes.

Songs generate emotions that reinforce the sensations that we want to transmit as designers with that clothing style.

Music regarding clothes

When you as a designer decide to present a certain line you do it under a concept to be transmitted as if it was an advertising campaign.

Consistency is vital for the success of any parade.

Therefore, all the decisions when organizing the event will be aimed at protecting and promoting the main concept to be transmitted:

In this way, depending on the type of parade, we will choose one musical genre or another.

For example, if there’s a formal clothing style on the show and the concept that the brand wants to convey is elegance and seriousness, the most ideal thing would be to choose classical but modern songs.

On the contrary, if there’s an informal or summer style and the concept that seeks to transmit the brand is somewhat festive, precisely for the season, the ideal would be to choose more modern and informal music, with a faster pace, cool and fun.

And remember, almost all songs displayed on fashion shows do not have vocals or lyrics.

It is also very important in choosing the songs for a show to be clear about the values of the clothing brand since all the elements must be consistent so that the effects do not clash with a brand image that usually requires for its construction and diffusion many years, effort and investment.

Music regarding the models

Music also plays an important role for the models.

The presence of music, whatever the genre, motivates them and at the same time helps them to recreate themselves in the situation and to perform better since they perform the role of actors: they do not walk the same on the street as on the catwalks.

This also serves to generate a rhythm and a speed for them when walking.

Depending on the particular piece of the song that is playing, the model can know the place where it should be, thus having the possibility to find out if it should keep pace, accelerate or slow down.

Where we can find the right music?

Due to the current tendency of the catwalks to function as authentic shows, there are nowadays different ways in which designers or organizers of fashion events are opting to play with music:

Surely if you’re starting the preparation of a fashion event to opt for orchestras, popular singers and choreographers will be out of the budget.

Therefore, we will focus on the reproduction of background music, since it is much more affordable and -if we make a good musical choice- it can be just as effective or more than any of the other options.

However, we cannot download any random song and use it in the show, since as you know the so-called copyrights exist. Therefore, you have three options:

The first option is the most complicated, either because you do not receive any response from the author/record company or because they are going to ask for exorbitant amounts of money for letting you play their music.

It just makes no sense from an economical and practical point of view.

If you decide to opt for the second way to be able to use certain music legally, the different PROs around the world usually base the prices of their licenses on the surface of the establishment where the music is played.

If you do need to use famous songs, that would be the option.

But it would be expensive and there are a lot of people who think that these organizations are doing more harm than good to the music industry.

In order to provide a solution to music prices that can sometimes be somewhat prohibitive, we present the best platform dedicated to offering music with the authorization of copyright holders much more affordable and with many more facilities: Cloud Cover Music.

Cloud Cover Music

Cloud Cover Music is a service that streams music for businesses.

Through this platform, you can get the songs you need for a parade. Its service stands out, especially for its great variety in terms of musical categories and its efficient search system, which allows you to find music of all kinds, according to what you want to convey.

You have to note that they only offer their services in the US and Canada, so if you’re in other parts of the world, we can also recommend Soundtrack Your Brand or Mav Music (if you’re in the UK).

What are their prices?

The platform has different prices established according to the license that we want to obtain:

Type	Price	Get It
Music plan	$16.95/month	Here
Manage Plan	$23.95/month	Here
Messaging Plan	$29.95/month	Here

Conclusion

The possibilities offered by this platform are many, which makes it very easy to acquire music for your fashion shows.

What is perhaps not so simple is knowing how to choose the right music for our event and that depends, as we have seen before, on several factors: brand values, type of clothing, models, assistants…

There is no doubt about the importance of this musical environment for the organization of any fashion show since this is capable of converting a simple walk of pretty faces, cool clothes and stylized bodies into a shocking show that attendees can remember the rest of the year.