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Heritage maximalism, implied luxury, and why new brands want old aesthetics. Creatine meme via @snaxshot - logo comp on slide one via @nssmagazine Palmirs design on slide one via @nostudioooo. Drop “luxury” below for the full length YouTube video 🫡
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The death of blending is complete. Yassified design will be next. Let's talk about heritage maximalism and how new brands wanna look old now. We are overwhelmed by new. Everything is being disrupted. We're adding protein to seltzer, creatine to cereal, and of worse, every creator has elevated basics. Better day we stray farther from the Lord's light. And if you want a simple or bright aesthetic, the millennial minimal, then AI good just whip it up. There is no moat. So standout brands are leaning into rank. Nitecore samplers, Art Nouveau, olive oils. And in heriting history, Bolle eighteen o three started in 2014 and then sold to LVMH in 2021, but positions the entire brand around a story from the eighteen hundreds. Flamingo Estate came out in the pandemic, but the gorgeous villa from whence its name comes tells a story that makes it feel far older. And then there's just copying history, ALD and the clones just doing their best Ralph Lauren impersonation because if it feels familiar, like you have lore, it establishes consumer comfort in this overwhelming blitz of the algorithms. The playbook is to lean into true rank, the texture, illustration, and story that design templates and AI images can't replicate. Invent legacy, design for depth, create destinations. I go through this scenario in the new luxury era in-depth in my latest YouTube, comment luxury, and I will DM you the link.