Diego Segura
@diegosegura
designer, writer, founder. currently obsessed with monetary theory, high finance, corporate law, regretting dropping out of high school, and sudoku. author of a 2018 book, “the dropout manifesto.”
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The problem, Ms. Velez has learned, is that recognition — the buzz around awards, reviews and celebrity endorsements — doesn’t always yield tangible returns. If anything, she said, it contributes to the idea that things are going well when they are not.
Jessica Testa • Should Making It in Fashion Be This Hard?
“Years of ultralow interest rates hurt insurers in two ways, first by reducing investment returns and second, by expanding insurance-underwriting capacity.”
i don't quite understand the latter part, it has do with investors who are searching for yield buying lots of catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities, w... See more
Coach, for instance, is well-managed, but it hasn’t “spread as a lifestyle brand,”
Coach & Kors’ Marriage of Convenience
In magazines, there's something known as a deep caption, a wisp of copy that's substituted for a story when the photo is more important.
Unwedded Bliss (Published 2006)
We were inspired by the Picasso quote that only art critics talk about the Big Ideas, real artists help each other find cheap turpentine.
Bloomberg-Beta • Manual/1 - Manual.md at main · Bloomberg-Beta/Manual
“As media and tech analyst Benedict Evans writes, the industry moves through cycles. ‘People will bundle different Substacks into single subscriptions (and then print them out and mail them once a month - ho! ho!), and unbundle verticals from the NY Times or Instagram.’ It’s all magazines? Always has been. ”
Independent brands — even those with significant backing — were boxed out by luxury’s biggest players, whose heft gave them a major edge in distribution and marketing, where they enjoy greater leverage with multi-brand retailers, mall owners, real estate developers, magazines, influencers and other key players in the fashion ecosystem. In 2019, LVM... See more
The Nine Lives of Proenza Schouler
“we can't **outspend** these people is what makes me most alarmed
how do you overcome that? what changed, if anything? what leverage can be applied on ad spend and shows?
it might just be storytelling
it's like the old granddad authors who have a pitiful enough looking face for tiktok that their books start flying off the shelves in support
It’s hard to exaggerate the importance of the Permian, which accounted for 74% of incremental oil production worldwide between 2015 and 2022. If that gusher is subsiding, the world will need to find new sources of oil, including offshore.
- UK Limited Partnerships acted as intermediaries for over 17,000 imports into Russia between 24 February 2022 and 31 March 2023.
- None of these Partnerships have controlling partners or persons of significant control in the UK.