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Heritage · Reset

[ Placeholder title — The Ferragamo reset and the patience of luxury. ]

[ Placeholder dek — what a 100-year-old house teaches a six-month-old D2C. ]

By Harsh Arya Read · 7 min The 98 Journal · Issue 01

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[ Placeholder opening · Maximilian Davis is announced as Ferragamo's new creative director, and the brand quietly does the slowest visible thing a luxury house can do — change the typeface, change the storefront, change nothing else. ]

The reset before the reset

[ Placeholder section · what 100-year-old houses understand about timing that D2C founders chasing weekly metrics will never feel in their bones. ]

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The half-life of a brand decision

[ Placeholder section · why a logo refresh shouldn't happen on the same calendar as an SKU launch. ]

What an Indian D2C should steal

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