Tag: fashion
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The Walmartification of America.
You’ve seen it. You walk into a big box store. The sales floor spans the length of a football field. Rows of steel-clad shelves line the halogen-lit bright and flickering aisles. There seemingly exists any item you could ever want. Have a question? Want to know where an item lives in that monstrosity of a…
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Vintage, Planned Obsolescence, and the ‘New’

Let’s face it. We have an overconsumption problem. We have an attention span problem. Gracious. We’ve got problems. Some call them issues. Let’s delve into a few of these “issues” and problematize them real good. Planned obsolescence is very lucrative as a business model. Make things that look slick and work like a charm until…
