Thirty years ago today, Andy Warhol recounting a neat example of the importance of a certain amount of honesty when luxury brands deploy influencer strategies…
Thirty years ago today, Andy Warhol recounting a neat example of the importance of a certain amount of honesty when luxury brands deploy influencer strategies…
An interesting assessment of the relationship between consumer behavior and the ritual elements of everyday life.
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As the launch of the new Louis Vuitton maison in London shows, one of the emerging themes from the post-recessionary environment is to encourage guilt-free shopping in a store ‘disguised’ as art museum. It isn’t shopping, it’s art.
Based on this, and on an increasing overlap between museum culture and luxury retail culture, we can expect [...]
According to Theaetetus (417 B.C. – 369 B.C.) knowledge is a subset of that which is both true and believed.
The emerging Rough Luxe movement represents a gritty correction to the over-heated values of luxury which prevailed before the economic crash.
Rough-Luxe is a new way of looking at luxury as a moment in time and not only part of an object of consumption. Luxury is an enriching personal experience and not only an ownership of [...]
Recently updated thoughts from Visvim, on the beauty of form, on retail music, and globalization…
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Tom Bender is one of the American founders of the “green architecture” and “sustainability” movements, writing prolifically since the 1970s. He is an authority on sustainability, and more specifically on the relationship between sacred space, sustainability and human emotion.
His work carries particularly relevance for luxury brands which are seeking to incorporated the promise of spiritual [...]
Last year, musician Derek Sivers published a blog post about Kurt Vonnegut. The post was based on a presentation that Vonnegut made on the theme of the human need for drama.
The main point of Vonnegut’s argument is that there is a big gap between the narrative stories that people love, and the lives that they [...]
In 1898, Charles Fletcher Dole, an American minister in the Unitarian Church, wrote a book called Luxury and Sacrifice.
Unlike many historical books about luxury goods which tend to warn of their destructive power, or which seek to use luxury as a way to regulate cultural divisions, it’s a clear-sighted treatise about the role of [...]
This comment from novelist Isabel Allender applies as accurately to the lives of people, as to the marketing strategy around heritage for luxury brands.