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Marketing

Finding out what people want, or persuading them they do.

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Nike Air Max

Tinker Hatfield · 1987

Nike Air Max redefined sportswear branding by making engineering visible—not because it needed to be seen, but because it couldn’t be hidden.

8:21

Swatch

Swatch didn’t save Swiss watchmaking—it outsourced its soul to plastic and price.
8:28

Tommy Hilfiger

Tommy Hilfiger

Tommy Hilfiger is not a story of creative rupture. It is a case study in post-failure repositioning: a bankrupt retailer turned branded sportswear system, funded by Murjani, then Chou, staffed by Ralph Lauren veterans, and sold via spectacle before substance.