Hosted by Mike Litman · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 90 episodes
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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.
Mike Litman hosts The Pattern, a news show with 90 episodes published.
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://thepatte
Show notesCulture 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/edition
Show notesCulture 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-
Show notesCulture 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.m
Show notesCulture 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-
Show notesCulture Pulse: 74. AI search killed the click and most brands have no map. Today's Pattern: distribution is gone, culture is the only channel left. Before it's obvious. Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/edi
Show notesCulture Pulse: 72. A $440 film. A Hollywood job offer. The credentialling argument for creative access just collapsed. Today's Pattern: before it's obvious. Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/editions/2026-0
Show notesCulture Pulse: 68. Heritage stopped being backstory. Palace, Dunhill, and Kith are using history as a pricing mechanism, not a mood. Today's Pattern. #ThePatter Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/editions/20
Show notesCulture Pulse: 72. Meta and Google lobbied the Vatican ahead of the AI encyclical. When tech seeks papal authority, the platform legitimacy era is over. @thepatternbrief Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/ed
Show notesCulture Pulse: 72. Shein just bought Everlane. Fashion's ethical branding era didn't end with a scandal. It ended with an acquisition. Today's Pattern: authenticity ran out of places to hide. Read the full edition: https
Show notesCulture Pulse: 74. The hand is back. Chanel, Cartier, JR on the Pont Neuf: irreproducibility is the moat. Scale was yesterday's play. Today's @ThePattern. Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/editions/2026-05-
Show notesCulture Pulse: 74. Gucci, Dior, LV all bet Resort 2027 on art, not product. Taste is becoming the actual balance sheet. Culture moved first. @ThePattern Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/editions/2026-05-22
Show notesCulture Pulse: 74. Consumer demand isn't dead. It's conditional. Swatch x AP, DWPD2 resale spikes, and Skims' Regent St flagship prove frenzy returns when the ritual is right. @ThePattern Read the full edition: https://t
Show notesCulture Pulse: 74. Smart glasses, archive rentals, and a nightclub hotel all point the same way: identity is the interface now. Tech finally accepted this. @ThePattern Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/edit
Show notesCulture Pulse: 74. LVMH exits Marc Jacobs. Sony closes the PC door. Altman admits publishers deserve payment. Ownership is being renegotiated across culture all at once. @ThePattern Read the full edition: https://thepatt
Show notesCulture Pulse: 74. Tear gas at a watch launch. Gucci in Times Square. Microsoft killing togetherness. Scarcity marketing just hit its ceiling. The Pattern, 18 May 2026. Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/edi
Show notesCulture Pulse: 74. Demna took Gucci to Times Square. Tear gas at a Swatch drop. King's Cross becomes London's AI postcode. Place is back as strategy. The Pattern, May 17. Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/e
Show notesCulture Pulse: 72. A six-year-old's tiger bag did more for Chinese craft visibility than years of cultural diplomacy. Accidental signals beat manufactured ones. Every time. #ThePattern Read the full edition: https://thep
Show notesCulture Pulse: 74. Luxury isn't selling objects anymore. It's selling encounters. The Royal Pop, On's robot, Margiela's Scentsorium all run the same play. The Pattern, 15 May. Read the full edition: https://thepattern.me
Show notesCulture Pulse: 72. TikTok GO just collapsed discovery and booking into one surface. The funnel didn't break. It got absorbed. Today's Pattern: platforms ate the funnel. Brands are still drawing it. Read the full edition:
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