by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Human brands, Retail | Aug 2, 2016
Dream what you Will. Visioning brand futures. I walk back, and I walk forward — looking at threading and the sutra of brand feelingness and emotionality. A brand gets to a point because it’s dreamed — there is a passioned promise state of premise and being — like with...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Human brands, Trends | Aug 28, 2015
Tim Girvin and Jack Larsen, at his Park Avenue Studio A fashion archetype, reconsidered. It’s good to hear that the bow tie is coming back. Somewhere around ten years back I’d moved past that detail — the suit, the oxford shirt, the bow tie. That was a legacy fashion...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Cool People, Designers, Luxury, Retail, Storytelling, Trends | Oct 4, 2010
THE SPIRIT OF FASHION ILLUSTRATION TAKEN TO ANOTHER EDGE. FINDING PERSONAL ALIGNMENTS, THE HISTORY OF THE PRACTICE. Antonio Lopez illustration Origin: lustration 1615–25; < L lūstrātus, ptp. of lūstrāre to purify, illumine. Seeluster1 , -ate1...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Cool People, Designers, General, Human brands | Oct 1, 2010
YSL, American Eagle, New Era Customization and the Interpretations of the Crowd. What about brands that are your brand? Make your own world: Working at Yves Saint Laurent, I can recall a conversation about either oui or non — the idea of more big YSL logo...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Designers, Storytelling | Jul 28, 2010
What happened with Michelle Obama, the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards and MAC Cosmetics? Sometime back, I’d sent a note to Kate + Laura, each with a painting on bark gathered from the high hills of Kaua’i, and a story to tell — that...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Human brands | Feb 12, 2010
Observing the passage of the brand, as fire, in the spirit of Alexander Lee McQueen This is the another in a series on Human Brand | defining the inextricable link between people, founding vision and the brands that they produce. When I heard of the passage of...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, General | Apr 6, 2009
Designing experiences and retail strategy | enlightening presence in the power of feminine visionaries. Right now, Girvin, the firm, is comprised mostly of women. And over time, I’ve found that women, as team partners, are superlative creative resources. And,...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Designers, Retail | Sep 22, 2008
Exploring the story, the man, the brand, Ralph Lauren I’ve met Ralph Lauren, but hardly to any degree that he’d recall. But I did have a connection with him, decades ago. Brief. And unforgettable, for me. Likely completely unknown to him. Why? I’d...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Designers, General, Luxury, Retail, Trends | Apr 2, 2008
Exploring the concept of an emerging dark luster in design, it might be more so about the exhausting confusion and difficulties of the present market — and the swirling chaos of the near future. What’s happening now? Is the end nigh? Or night, near? What...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, General | Mar 26, 2007
Sometimes there’s a sense that we look at a brand one way, and there’s a potential for it to be tipped another way; and that can be a good thing. We need to be ready for that, mind full of tipping spaces that will transcend or evolve expression to a...
