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EVERYTHING IS MERCH
open.substack.comSupreme traced a social and cultural topography of its brand’s global community, but that community formed exactly because you could only buy Supreme at its Lafayette Street shop in New York. Through its merch, Supreme held this community together across time and geography. It connected people, conversations, and symbols into one Supreme social network.
RLT Interview #4: W. David Marx, Writer
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Repair, maintenance, and restoration are about building more intimate, meaningful relationships with the things around us
Repairs store and tell stories. They are the equivalent of scars on objects.
Repaired objects help us redefine beauty.
Repair replaces wastefulness and shallowness with meaning and care.
Repairing makes us truly empowered and responsible owners of our objects as opposed to mere consumers.


What if a home had a url?