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The Pattern

Mike Litman

Before it's obvious. Five culture signals, five minutes, five days a week.

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240 episódios

  1. No. 240: Game publishers just gained an AI ally 4:08
  2. No. 239: Aramco just bought a seat at the AI table 4:58
  3. No. 238: Three institutions just rewrote the rules on who owns global art 4:32
  4. No. 237: Heritage is where brands go when the future feels uncertain 4:50
  5. No. 236: Taste is eating creativity, and brands are funding the confusion 4:50
  6. No. 235: Sticky beats smart: enterprise AI is becoming a retention business, not a capability race 4:42
  7. No. 234: History is the hook: AI finds its emotional register in China 4:29
  8. No. 233: Riot insurance is now a line item in luxury's Paris budget. 4:33
  9. No. 232: Chinese designers are maturing fast, and Western luxury has no answer yet. 4:30
  10. No. 231: Culture venues are becoming the brand's best distribution channel. 4:56
  11. No. 230: Retrospectives are the new R&D. Heritage is doing creative work now. 4:37
  12. No. 229: AI agents are already buying things. Brands missed the memo. 4:39
  13. No. 228: Fashion's creative director carousel is spinning faster than ever before. 4:49
  14. No. 227: AI music gets a label. Streaming just drew a line in the feed. 4:38
  15. No. 226: LVMH's 5% sales drop signals the end of post-pandemic luxury auto-pilot 4:56
  16. No. 225: Luxury found its new home east, and Kim Jones made it official 4:21
  17. No. 224: Vertical video graduates from format experiment to its own genre 4:35
  18. No. 223: Gen Z bought the art. Now the market has to take them seriously. 4:29
  19. No. 222: Tokyo is where brand marriages go to prove themselves real. 4:35
  20. No. 221: Mass-market brands borrowed luxury's grammar. Now they need the vocabulary. 4:21
  21. No. 220: Hollywood just turned the AI boardroom into prestige cinema 4:52
  22. No. 219: Artist as collaborator rewrites the fashion house power structure 4:35
  23. No. 218: Scarcity returns to fashion. The volume era is over. 4:31
  24. No. 217: The body becomes the next premium subscription product 5:04
  25. No. 216: Craft is becoming the new luxury proof point, not provenance 4:48
  26. No. 215: Origin of manufacture is becoming the new creative statement 4:36
  27. No. 214: Analogue media is becoming part of a brand's core systems, not a marketing tactic 4:35
  28. No. 213: Gadgets want to be jewellery now. Wearables lost the argument. 4:38
  29. No. 212: Everyday objects are the new fashion category. Function lost the argument. 4:52
  30. No. 211: Craft is fashion week's new power move. Milan just proved it. 5:02
  31. No. 210: High jewellery moves into fashion week. The category is rewriting its own rules. 4:44
  32. No. 209: Solo economy rises: AI turned seven million Chinese into their own employer. 4:46
  33. No. 208: Careful beats clever. The DTC era's survivors all look the same. 4:30
  34. No. 207: Sport just found its most credible challenger to Nike's cultural monopoly. 4:53
  35. No. 206: Authorship is the new luxury. AI just forced fashion to admit it. 4:55
  36. No. 205: British fashion has no answer to its own identity question. 4:45
  37. No. 204: Streamers enter cultural production. The streamer becomes a creative director. 4:44
  38. No. 203: AI slowed down. Culture kept moving at full speed. 4:46
  39. No. 202: City streets became media. Brands stopped buying space and started owning it. 4:29
  40. No. 201: Heritage is fashion's new R&D. The archive beats the brief. 4:48
  41. No. 200: Ugly is the new premium. China just proved it with data. 4:55
  42. No. 199: Culture and commerce are merging institutional form, not just product. 4:41
  43. No. 198: Privacy is the new premium. Apple just made it a hardware feature. 4:46
  44. No. 197: Technical credibility is replacing brand aspiration as the new luxury signal. 4:43
  45. No. 196: Craft is the new code. Making things by hand is a strategic position. 5:15
  46. No. 195: Nostalgia is now a product category, not a marketing tactic. 5:01
  47. No. 194: Redemption arcs are the new brand strategy. Culture is rewarding return. 5:11
  48. No. 193: Power is transferring to engineers. Culture will follow the hardware. 4:36
  49. No. 192: Minimalism just became sneaker culture's most expensive flex. 4:25
  50. No. 191: Identity is the new creative brief. Artists are rewriting their own names. 4:57