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In December, a fashion startup called Scarce started selling used luxury clothing in the form of mystery boxes, following in the footsteps of a British startup, Heat, which launched with the same concept in late 2019. Both companies claim they have managed to avoid a high return rate — one of the biggest potential pitfalls of a mystery box sales mo... See more
ModernRetail • To engineer virality, brands are making their own mystery boxes
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Christopher Kai • Big Game Hunting
Base products are the same as the products at the top (example is the Shopping Bag a.k.a the Bushwick Birkin). Layers of the reverse pyramid are TELFAR products (bags, collaborations, accessories), TELFAR Industry (TV entertainment, conversations, shows, community showcasing), TELFAR brand (non-gender, vegan, accessible, inclusive) and, finally, cu... See more
Substack • Entertainment x Shopping
The biggest toll will be on bigger companies with a lot of employees that had a bad balance sheet.
Scott Galloway • Post Corona
given customer demands for dirt-cheap service no matter what the cost to workers and the threat of misclassification lawsuits, companies weren’t likely to make.
Sarah Kessler • Gigged: The Gig Economy, the End of the Job and the Future of Work
The peak of consumerism as performance is Ye x Julia Fox “Date Night,” leading into Yeezy Gap Engineered by Balenciaga collab. Life x culture x art x commerce.
Ana Andjelic • Luxury x Culture
There's the potential for a community-driven, media-savvy insurgent to build an iconic brand and business off of these changes. Phluid is an interesting player right now, as is Machine A. I think there's room for plenty of others.
Aashay Sanghvi • Not Found
Since the start of the year (2022), fast fashion giants H&M and Zara have launched about 11,000 new styles combined.Over the same time, ultra-fast fashion brand Shein has released a staggering 314,877 styles.