Turning business habit into pleasure.
A strategist’s analysis of the global business of music, fashion and culture. Insights for shaping cultural design.
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Exploring the impact of merchandising on storytelling and brand positioning.
Looking to the DNA of fashion editors to connect taste-making to the concept of curation.
In the mid-2000s, Kimora Lee Simmons used high fashion nuance to build Baby Phat into a cultural entity.
Taste is a social activity that drives cultural capital. Notes on taste communities and brand strategy.
With an ear for hits, Berry Gordy built Motown into an iconic record company. It’s another good example of a flywheel. For music artists and strategists alike.
Flywheel as another word for ecosystem. The purpose of this post is to officially enter this model into the record, using Goop to illustrate.
A roadmap for my blog the next 15-months. In service of play and following my curiosities.
To be fair, culture is a spark you can’t necessarily account for. World building helps create the containers to catch it in. How to catch lightning in a bottle.