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Access instead of ownership and reseller luxury

An article written by Alex Danco titled “Everything is Amazing, But Nothing is Ours” about how technology has evolved to be about access at the expense of ownership and Reseller platforms such as The RealReal and what their relationship is to the primary luxury market.

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Gaming subscriptions and changing women’s football

Whether gaming subscriptions can possibly lead to more innovative and experimental video games and What changing the rules and regulations of women’s football might do for the development of the game.

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Rei Kawakubo and the role of work

A recent WWD interview with Rei Kawakubo, founder of COMME des GARÇONS and Dover Street Market, where she makes distinctions between her relationship with fashion and business and Whether the role work now plays in people’s lives can be considered equivalent in any way to the role religion used to have.

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Rise of caption-fluencers and MUJI Hotel opens in Tokyo

The emergence of increasingly lengthy captions on Instagram and the implications of this trend and The newly opened MUJI Hotel in Tokyo and what it takes for a brand to successfully extend itself.

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The VICE Philip Morris partnership and overflowing museum collections

The partnership between the big tobacco company Philip Morris and the media platform VICE in relation to the idea of whether good things can come from bad money and The issue of increasingly large museum collections and what museums might do collectively to make art more accessible.

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Mega influencers and taxing luxury goods

Whether it’s possible to become a mega-influencer anymore and The reasons China might tax luxury goods and how that might affect consumerism in the country.

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Losing the suit and vegan design

Goldman Sachs telling employees that they can start dressing more casually and how that might affect the fashion landscape and An argument for veganizing design and the counter-argument against applying that ideology.

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Healthy skepticism and artist endowed foundations

When skepticism is good and when more trust is needed and The increase in artist-endowed foundations and the work that these foundations are doing in terms of cultural philanthropy.

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Defining authenticity and social credit systems

What “authenticity” means and Authenticity in food culture specifically and then expand on the subject to look at authenticity more broadly and The social credit system being adopted in China and the implications of it on real people.

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What analytical media can teach and an online museum cataloguing analog sounds

The importance of analytical media in connection to an op-ed written by Lawrence Ware about The Source magazine and The online museum called Conserve the Sound which carefully catalogs images and audio snippets of analog items and what is conceptually lost when new technology replaces older items.