Mike Litman
The Pattern
Before it's obvious. A daily briefing scanning 150+ sources across fashion, design, tech, brands, and music. Finding the patterns others miss, every morning at 8:30am UK time.
Besuch unbedingt die Website des Podcasts und unterstütze die Macher: thepattern.media
Wo hören?
Podcasts in der App Replaio Radio Bald verfügbarPodcasts kommen bald in die App. Installiere sie jetzt und erlebe als Erster einen ganz neuen Blick auf Podcasts
Kostenlos installieren
Android fast 10 Mio. Downloads · Bewertung 4,7+
iOS bald
Folgen
No. 118: Simplicity is the new luxury flex. Prada just proved it. 22.06.2026 5:08
Culture Pulse: 72. Prada calls complexity useless. Hill House hits $110M on one dress. Reduction is the strategy now. Today's Pattern: the maximalist era is filing for bankruptcy. Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/editions/2026-06-22.html
No. 117: Authenticity has an API now. Students just built it. 21.06.2026 4:54
Culture Pulse: 68. Authenticity has an API now. Humanizer apps, cigarette-box wellness drops, and Christie's execs running luxury. The real is being engineered. @ThePattern Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/editions/2026-06-21.html
No. 116: Ritual is the new product. Packaging just became the proof. 20.06.2026 4:27
Culture Pulse: 72. Ritual is the new product. Rocky's Matcha, NTS Radio, New Balance: three brands using objects to do the cultural work advertising used to do. The Pattern, 20 June. Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/editions/2026-06-20.html
No. 115: Sport just became New York's most valuable cultural real estate. 19.06.2026 4:28
Culture Pulse: 74. The Knicks window is open for days, not weeks. Burberry exported the pub as a brand format. Industrial brands are buying design capital. The Pattern, 19 June. Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/editions/2026-06-19.html
No. 114: Luxury picks its infrastructure bets. Supply chain is the new brand story. 18.06.2026 4:50
Culture Pulse: 71. Primark hires Calvin Klein's design director. LVMH prizes supply chain transparency. Prestige talent is migrating down, and the quality gap is closing fast. @ThePattern Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/editions/2026-06-18.html
No. 113: Post-smartphone computing is already being worn. The race started quietly. 17.06.2026 4:40
Culture Pulse: 72. Post-smartphone computing is already being worn. Qualcomm has 40+ wearable AI devices in development. The body is the new pocket. @ThePattern Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/editions/2026-06-17.html
No. 112: Fox buys the remote control. Distribution just became the only content strategy. 16.06.2026 4:24
Culture Pulse: 74. Fox bought Roku for $22bn. That's not a streaming deal — it's a real estate play. Whoever owns the interface owns the attention economy. @ThePatternn Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/editions/2026-06-16.html
No. 111: Challengers are eating incumbents by refusing to act like brands. 15.06.2026 4:34
Culture Pulse: 71. TikTok-native challengers are eating Lululemon's lunch. Target rehires Mizrahi. OpenAI makes AI look like craft. The pattern: culture before commerce, always. @ThePattern Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/editions/2026-06-15.html
No. 110: Sovereignty is the new brand strategy. AI just proved it. 14.06.2026 4:42
Culture Pulse: 71. AI dependency just became a sovereignty risk. The brands paying attention are building their own infrastructure. Today's Pattern: before it's obvious. Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/editions/2026-06-14.html
No. 109: Death makes the canon. Hockney's exit reshapes what British art means now. 13.06.2026 4:45
Culture Pulse: 74. Hockney's death opens a British visual identity vacuum. China's brands own the World Cup without qualifying. London's galleries endorse remix. Culture is rewriting authorship. @ThePattern Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/editions/2026-06-13.html
No. 108: Size is a system. Balenciaga just declared it optional. 12.06.2026 4:57
Culture Pulse: 74. Size is a system. Balenciaga just declared it optional. Today's Pattern: the brands winning right now are the ones that decided inherited categories were arbitrary. #ThePattern Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/editions/2026-06-12.html
No. 107: Ownership is the new creative brief. Culture's power brokers are buying the source. 11.06.2026 4:39
Culture Pulse: 74. Ownership is the new creative brief. Bailey buys a pottery maker. Warner buys attribution tech. Luxury defers to TikTok's Lyas. The brief is losing power at every level. @ThePattern Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/editions/2026-06-11.html
No. 106: Editing is the new creative superpower. Omission beats addition. 10.06.2026 4:36
Culture Pulse: 72. AI makes infinite addition free. The brands winning right now are the ones that edit hardest. Today's Pattern: restraint is the new creative advantage. #ThePattern Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/editions/2026-06-10.html
No. 105: Tactile culture is winning the attention economy. Screens cannot replicate touch. 09.06.2026 4:49
Culture Pulse: 72. Touch is the new moat. TikTok is reviewing atomisers. Packaging is now a content channel. The body is fighting back against digital commoditisation. @thepatternbrief Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/editions/2026-06-09.html
No. 104: Regional beauty is rewriting who gets to set global taste. 08.06.2026 4:28
Culture Pulse: 68. Filipino beauty is building global export logic without Western validation. Taste no longer gets granted from the centre. It gets asserted from the edges. @ThePattern Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/editions/2026-06-08.html
No. 103: Scarcity is the new strategy. Culture just proved it with bodies. 07.06.2026 4:49
Culture Pulse: 72. The AGI economists said it plainly: robots scale, ballerinas don't. Today's signals show that principle repricing everything from sport archives to fragrance temples. @ThePattern Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/editions/2026-06-07.html
No. 102: Physical space is the new media buy. Brands figured this out. 06.06.2026 4:43
Culture Pulse: 74. Physical space is the new media buy. Zara, a house party album launch, and anti-screen startups all point the same way. The room is the prize. @ThePattern Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/editions/2026-06-06.html
No. 101: Heritage IP is the new infrastructure. The content wars shifted quietly. 05.06.2026 4:54
Culture Pulse: 72. Amazon needs Bond. Universal rejected Ackman. OTB completed Viktor & Rolf. IP is infrastructure now. Platforms are subordinate. The Pattern, 05.06.26. Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/editions/2026-06-05.html
No. 100: Brands that own the moment beat brands that own the message. 04.06.2026 4:56
Culture Pulse: 72. Inditex beats the macro. TikTok builds an events app. Bottega Veneta sponsors Björk's national museum show. The pattern: owning the moment beats owning the message. @thepatternbrief Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/editions/2026-06-04.html
No. 99: Physical togetherness is now a product category. Someone noticed. 03.06.2026 4:44
Culture Pulse: 74. Physical presence is now a product category. Board's $20M raise, Tianya's return, and Pharrell's utility-luxury pitch all point the same way. Scarcity of presence is the next market. #ThePattern Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/editions/2026-06-03.html
No. 98: Personality is the last moat. Brands with none are already losing. 02.06.2026 4:36
Culture Pulse: 72. Personality is the last moat. Brands optimising for broad appeal are now the risky ones. Today's Pattern connects TikTok, Taylor Swift, and Helsinki. #ThePattern Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/editions/2026-06-02.html
No. 97: Luxury is moving its runways west. The money already did. 01.06.2026 4:52
Culture Pulse: 72. Luxury is planting flags in LA. Apple is targeting eyewear, not tech. AI costs are outpacing AI value. Geography is the new strategy. #ThePattern Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/editions/2026-06-01.html
No. 96: Bundling won the streaming wars. Now it rewires every subscription business. 31.05.2026 4:59
Culture Pulse: 72. Bundles now drive 33% of new streaming subs in the US, up from 10% in 2024. The single-product subscription era is closing. @ThePattern Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/editions/2026-05-31.html
No. 95: Ferrari went electric. Jony Ive designed it. The car is almost beside the point. 30.05.2026 4:44
Culture Pulse: 74. Ferrari went electric and hired Jony Ive to design it. That's not a car decision. It's a desire decision. Today's Pattern: object logic beats category logic. Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/editions/2026-05-30.html
No. 94: Slow retail is the new luxury. Speed was always the wrong bet. 29.05.2026 4:35
Culture Pulse: 72. Slow retail is the new luxury. A Chinese fashion brand just commissioned friction as a growth strategy. The speed era is over. #ThePattern Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/editions/2026-05-29.html
Ähnliche Podcasts
Höre den Podcast The Pattern in Replaio
Radio und Podcasts in einer App - kostenlos und ohne Anmeldung. Installiere sie noch heute und verpasse den Start nicht
Replaio ist kein Herausgeber von Podcasts; die Namen der Sendungen, Cover und Audioinhalte gehören ihren Autoren und werden über öffentliche RSS-Feeds verbreitet
