Random recs: Arthur Elgort the movie, Harvey Nichols, Siri Hustvedt, peak merch and more
A few snippets of digital ephemera and IRL recommendations I’ve enjoyed lately…
1/ Merch as clothing systems. This is a great read on the evolution of merch. (Anyone for a Palantir hoodie?)
“Which brings us back to peak merch. If the last wave was about identity as consumption – proof of taste, proof of experience, proof-you-were-there – this next phase feels more like identity as positioning. The shift isn’t that merch signals allegiance (it always has), but what that allegiance points to. Not scenes, subcultures or shared memories – but systems, ideologies and power structures that are much harder to decode.” (more…)
