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Blog posts
The age of exclusivity is over
16 Jul 2015 | Medium
Walking into an Hermès store delights the senses. Time slows, the fragrance of Un Jardin Sur Le Toit mixes with buttery leather, vibrant silk scarves flutter through the windows, and sales associates quietly offer their assistance.
Following Hermès on Instagram inspires entirely different emotions.
They’re silent for weeks, then flood my feed with photos of unsmiling models. Captions inform me of what I’m seeing, but don’t explain why I should care. When I try to converse with the brand through likes or comments, I am ignored. Hermès clearly has no interest in developing relationships with consumers; they only follow two of their one million fans, both of which are Hermès-owned handles.
The experience I have with the brand differs drastically from platform to platform.
I don’t intend to single out Hermès — most of their feed is filled with playful content that leaves me smiling. But my experiences with Hermès and @hermes illustrate a larger problem within the luxury category.
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Adventures worth repeating
The past year and a half has been spent traveling to far-flung locales and exploring my New York City backyard. Here are a few incredible things I've seen.
25 Dec 2015 | Concord, North Carolina
21 Dec 2015 | Skaftafell, Iceland
10 Oct 2015 | Catskills, NY
10 Sep 2015 | Salineras de Maras, Peru
18 Jul 2015 | Ditch Plains, Montauk
02 Jul 2015 | Cape d'Or, Nova Scotia
12 Jun 2015 | Philippe Parreno
24 May 2015 | The Cloisters
08 May 2015 | Concord, North Carolina
22 Apr 2015 | Equinox on the Hudson
21 Apr 2015 | Empire State Building
28 Feb 2015 | Aspen Highlands
22 Nov 2014 | Sofitel Hanoi
15 Nov 2014 | Glass House
26 Oct 2014 | Catskills
19 Oct 2014 | Sydney Fish Market
Inspiration
Elon Musk's master plan for Tesla.
MIT x Henry Jenkins' white paper on creating content audiences want to adopt and adapt.
Ben Thompson's argument that Buzzfeed in the most important news organization in the world.
Questlove's series on how hip-hop redefined cool and failed black America.
Jon Gertner's history of innovation at Bell Labs.
Noel Gallagher's hilarious perspective on the music industry today.
Derek Thompson's investigation of effective altruism as a donation philosophy.
Doug Stephens on the transition of retail from distribution point to product experience.
Side projects
FASHION BRAND
Join or Die creates high-quality, fairly priced products that you will reach for season after season. Produced entirely in NYC.
