The Pattern

By Mike Litman

Before it's obvious. Daily culture intelligence from 150+ sources. Fashion, design, technology, brands, music, art, and lifestyle. The patterns others miss, every morning at 8:30am UK time.... more

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The podcast currently has 77 episodes available.

The Pattern episodes:

April 02, 2026 No. 37: Legacy conglomerates are merging whilst their brands collapse separately
Culture Pulse: 78
Legacy conglomerates merge whilst their brands collapse. L'Oréal/Kering partner on longevity. Google goes screenless. Calvin Klein gets a boost from 90s TV costumes. The Pattern, 2 April 2026.
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April 01, 2026 No. 36: AI funding reaches religion levels whilst AI products keep collapsing
Culture Pulse: 78
OpenAI raises $3B from retail investors at $852B valuation whilst AI products keep shutting down. Allbirds sells for $39M after $1.7B peak. Funding hits fever pitch as products collapse.
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March 31, 2026 No. 35: The Phoebe Philo diaspora now runs half of luxury fashion
Culture Pulse: 68
The Phoebe Philo diaspora now runs half of luxury fashion. Plus: why LVMH, Kering and Richemont are all recalibrating at once. The Pattern, 31 March 2026.
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March 30, 2026 No. 34: Big Tech wants fashion's cultural gravity while fashion rewires for survival
Culture Pulse: 68
Tech wants fashion's cultural gravity. Luxury strips to essentials. Both respond to the same threat: AI abundance erodes scarcity. Whoever controls meaning wins.
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March 29, 2026 No. 33: Children are the battleground between tech's growth addiction and state protection
Culture Pulse: 72
Italy prosecutes beauty brands for marketing to kids whilst OpenAI cancels products and AWS data centres get hit by drones. The era of invisible infrastructure just ended.
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6min
March 28, 2026 No. 32: Italy criminalises marketing to children whilst luxury chases desirability metrics
Culture Pulse: 72
Italy prosecutes Sephora for child marketing, courts hold Meta liable for algorithmic harm, influencers cut open luxury bags. Value transparency is no longer optional.
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March 27, 2026 No. 31: Desirability replaces growth as the new CEO incentive metric at Kering
Culture Pulse: 72
Kering is paying CEOs based on desirability, not growth. Meta is liable for addictive design. The next advantage is what you measure and how transparently you operate the systems.
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March 26, 2026 No. 30: Big tech launches music tools whilst Aerie wages culture war against AI
Culture Pulse: 72
Aerie wages culture war against AI whilst Google democratises music generation. Everyone's responding to the same authenticity crisis, just from opposite sides. No middle ground left.
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March 25, 2026 No. 29: Retail borders collapse as beauty consolidates and China exports store formats
Culture Pulse: 68
Puig-Estée Lauder merger isn't about growth, it's survival economics. Meanwhile Chinese retail exports store formats optimised under brutal competition. Scarcity is no longer defensible.
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March 24, 2026 No. 28: Beauty consolidation and Chinese retail expansion redraw global commerce maps simultaneously
Culture Pulse: 78
Beauty consolidates whilst Chinese retail colonises Western high streets. Both landgrabs exploit the same truth: algorithms drive discovery, physical space controls margins.
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7min

FAQs about The Pattern:

How many episodes does The Pattern have?

The podcast currently has 77 episodes available.