As best as I can tell, the puff-sleeve onslaught began in 2018. The clothing designer Batsheva Hay’s eponymous brand was barely two years old, but her high-necked, ruffle-trimmed, elbow-covering dresses in dense florals and upholstery prints—bizarro-world reimaginings of the conservative frocks favored by Hasidic Jewish women and the Amish—had developed […]
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By all accounts it has been a rough year for Pinterest. While the seventh most visited social media site has toiled since 2005 to morph its popular vision boards into something more profitable, the past 12 months have seen its stock plunge by 70% and its most recent earnings […]
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Most of the literature on innovation develops in the context of technology, where the degree of radical or incremental change in terms of functionality of the product can be evaluated according to objective and predictable models. In creative industries, a valuable source of competitive advantage lies […]
