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A Tale of Two Streets: Supreme vs Madhappy
For every new subway ad featuring an online pharmacy and a nice monstera plant, there was a new pop-up skate shop soaking up the runoff of Supreme teens. HSWLD on Delancey, a dozen others lost to memory… Online, I browsed IJJI and v.soon and Anti-Social Social Club on my friend’s Tiny Clothing Stores Are.na channel, this selection a mere trickle of
... See moreToby Shorin • Life After Lifestyle
One of the benefits of producing consistent creative work is that it comes with a narrative network effect: The more people who know and love the story of an object, the stronger the tie to that object becomes. For a brand like MSCHF, success might not always come from money—sometimes, it comes from products that reinforce how they want to articula... See more
Evan Armstrong • The Art of Scaling Taste
The Business of Aspiration: How Social, Cultural, and Environmental Capital Changes Brands
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the success of packaging up a cultural product with its most committed community front-of-mind, being outside and touching people, offering exclusive artifacts and experiences to them, and letting them do the rest to interpret and build your brand energy for you.
Grace Gordon • How to Build Brand Energy
This started with the Seventh Avenue, shop-and-copy approach that has defined the industry, but no longer works with consumers on a global scale. America created the concept of lifestyle brands—it drove the rise of casualization as early as the 1950s, first through denim, then khakis, and now leggings. But the fashion itself has long been predicate... See more