
No. 16: Luxury discovered it can charge more by making customers wait less
Culture Pulse: 72. Balenciaga killed the six-month wait. Netflix bought the camera, not the film. China's teaching humans to work with robots before deploying them. Speed is the new vertical integration. Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/editions/2026-03-12.html
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