Who cares

Primeiro, ler este artigo "Making The Case Against Fast Fashion Collaborations", onde se pode encontrar:

"‘Fashion,’ in the sense now being co-opted by the high street, used to mean designer fashion; that is, something made by a creator who puts care and thought into what he or she is creating. It means carefully crafted designs made with attention to detail and aesthetic sensibility.
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the first polo shirt was carefully designed. But these days, the only major difference between polo shirts made by various competitors (often in the same factories) is the logo: alligator or polo player. Indeed, today, the word ‘design’ merely means ‘cool.’ To say that something is designed is to say ‘Isn’t it cool?’ And by extension, ‘Aren’t I cool?’ The same goes for fashion.
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I invite anyone to argue that fast fashion brands produce ‘fashion’ in the original sense of the word. They may sell decent clothing at affordable prices — but not fashion.
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This is perfectly fine, of course. Providing access to affordable clothing is a noble goal. But, alas, this goal was perverted a long time ago by the rise of irresponsible consumer behaviour that has transformed the act of shopping into a leisure activity.
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But make no mistake, what is called ‘the democratisation of fashion’ is really the bastardisation of fashion; that is, taking a designer’s ideas and watering them down for mass consumption.
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Real style is a matter of taste. And taste is a matter of experience. Just like one’s tastes in music, art or books, taste in clothes forms over time. It takes effort and knowledge. Buying into a style, quickly and cheaply, inevitably leads to the disposability of style."

Depois, ler este texto de Seth Godin "The cycle of customers who care":

"The first step is people who care making a product for people who care.
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The second step is people who care making a product for people who don't care.
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And the third step, so difficult to avoid, is that the growing organization starts hiring people, not necessarily people who care, to grow their ever-industrializing company. And since they are servicing customers who don't care, those employees who don't care can get away with it (for a while).
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You're not going to have hordes of disappointed mass market customers cursing you out about quality or design. They don't care enough to do that.
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It's totally okay for an organization to have the mission of making a carefree, ubiquitous product or service for people too busy or focused elsewhere. Totally fine to make something that's popular largely because it's popular. The danger creeps in when your team listens to their (mass) market and stops caring as well. When that happens, a new company comes along to care again."

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Ao ler "Change to copyright laws threatens furniture makers and thousands of jobs" não perder de vista tantos e tantos sectores onde o mesmo fenómeno se aplica.

"Some of Britain’s leading furniture makers have claimed more than 6,000 British companies are under threat if the Government pushes ahead with controversial changes to copyright law.
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UK furniture manufacturing – a £7billion industry employing almost 100,000 people – has been put under pressure by Government plans to impose EU rules on the sector.
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Under the current law, furniture designed by famous names such as Charles Eames can be reproduced freely 25 years after being created.
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This allows makers across the UK to produce and sell replicas of well-known table and chair designs at affordable prices, a practice that accounts for a large part of the industry.
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But the Government plans to extend copyright protection for designs deemed ‘artistic’ until 70 years after the death of the creator.
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This will bring UK law into line with EU-wide regulations, and repeals a key part of the 1998 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act. The move puts furniture in the same category as musical scores or paintings, and would make selling or producing replicas illegal."

Este tipo de leis é um dos factores que mais contribui para atrasar a chegada de Mongo. Basta recordar o que aprendi com o mundo da moda e a inexistência de patentes em "O que acontece num mundo sem patentes". Um mundo sem patentes acelera a a diferenciação, a novidade, a criatividade.
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E por cá, qual terá sido o custo em postos de trabalho da aplicação desta legislação comunitária?

O que acontece num mundo sem patentes?

Muito, muito interessante:

O que a ausência de patentes no mundo da moda gera... moda, criatividade, inovação, novidade, diferenciação.
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Deixou-me a pensar no assunto.
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BTW, "HOW TO STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST"

Re-pensar, reflectir sobre o que resulta e continuará a resultar

Se o pântano traiçoeiro do middle-market se está a alargar na sequência da migração de valor em curso, talvez faça sentido re-pensar o que sempre se fez.
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Será que é adequado continuar a usar os mecanismos de promoção do passado?
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A promoção das marcas é mais importante do que nunca, por isso faz todo o sentido olhar para o exemplo dos excêntricos que vão à frente, talvez se possa aprender com as suas experiências.
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Assim, a revista The Economist publica o artigo "A new look - Creative destruction meets haute couture".
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Alguns trechos:
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"This season many designers chose to abandon the catwalk, the very symbol of fashion.
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some designers ... decided to cut costs by holding smaller spectaculars at their own showrooms. Others opted for even thriftier “presentations”, where models were hired to stand on podiums like mannequins for a few hours, or to mingle with the ordinary mortals in the crowd.
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The collections were also smaller, a sign of the reduced demand for luxury clothing. Department stores have already said they will curb buying, reining in designers who used to make the same dress in a dozen hues.
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a popular French designer, has spent the past three months reworking her website to make it more “human and interactive”. Fashion, she points out, was historically sold through intimate salons. She wants to re-establish that accessibility—and the internet allows her, and others, to do it cheaply."
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No Público de hoje, na mesma onda, o artigo "Crise já chegou às feiras organizadas pela Exponor":
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"O número de expositores e visitantes das feiras da Exponor, em Matosinhos, está a diminuir "10 a 15 por cento" devido ao clima de crise, disse à agência Lusa fonte do parque de exposições. "O clima recessivo está a ter efeitos nas feiras. Há empresas que estão a fechar e outras que deixam de vir às feiras","
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Todos têm de reflectir, quer os expositores, quer os organizadores dos eventos.

We are all in the fashion business!!!

Seth Godin, como sempre... remarkable!!!