by Peter Majanen | Jun 4, 2021 | The Editor
Shootings and gangster related deaths are spreading like a pandemic in our at risk areas. Nobody quite knows why, or how we should stop the killing. Poverty and exclusion are presented as possible explanations. What if it is not about social factors but something else...
by Peter Majanen | May 21, 2021 | The Editor
The lines are snaking longer than ever in front of the luxury stores in recently re-opened cities. Hermès, Prada, Gucci and the likes rise from the ashes and put up better numbers than before the pandemic. The strangest thing is that those pining in the lines are...
by Peter Majanen | May 10, 2021 | The Editor
I think that many brands feel artificial and unnecessary. Who would actually miss another boastful gambling brand, another creamy variety of yoghurt or for that matter another the-most-climate-friendly-power-company-in-the-world on a day-to-day basis? Probably...
by Peter Majanen | Apr 23, 2021 | The Editor
What do you think represents beauty in the future? I have written about this earlier and suggested at the time that beauty in the future was represented by Alessandro Michele, the creative head and designer of Gucci[1]. Last week the new collection Aria was presented...
by Peter Majanen | Feb 4, 2021 | The Editor
Great shifts and crises create space for change, for new thoughts, ideologies, values and new aesthetics. What was regarded as attractive in design, architecture and fashion a mere decade ago becomes nigh despised in this shift. The change is swift and almost always...
by Peter Majanen | Sep 3, 2020 | The Editor
200 years of urban development seemed to be a primal force and natural law as reliable as gravity. There will always come a day when Mega trends weaken and become questioned. This development is often quick and surprising, this has now happened. What will become of...
