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Diderot effect - and how to avoid it

Diderot effect - and how to avoid it

Since January 3rd I have done nothing else than moving things. That’s more than two weeks. I even spent my birthday on a truck. The overall operation includes moving furniture from Germany to Malta some time later this year. Malta, being an island state, is not easy to reach. That has implications for this transport, but also for any other supply …

Luxury revisited

Luxury revisited

I have been recently volunteering at the Academy of Fashion and Design (AMD). Neither fashion nor design is my field, but I filled some gaps in necessary management disciplines. To my surprise, a student of fashion management, Ms Mia Just, chose me as a second reader for her thesis on the ambiguity between creativity and commerce in fashion …