{"id":678,"date":"2016-11-10T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mag.vue.ai\/?p=678"},"modified":"2024-08-12T10:05:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T04:35:16","slug":"deviation-x-integration-the-balancing-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vue.ai\/blog\/ai-in-retail\/deviation-x-integration-the-balancing-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Deviation x Integration: The Balancing Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">5<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p class=\"graf graf--p\">Brands have an uneasy relationship with technology. On the surface, tech is the future. It\u2019s the story you tell if you want to be seen as someone who gets it. Robin Givhan from the Washington Post reporting on Chanel\u2019s Spring\/Summer 2017 collection, pointed to how our sudden obsession for all things tech is picked up and magnified by brands.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"graf graf--pullquote graf--startsWithDoubleQuote\"><p>\u201cTech is currently the story. So Lagerfeld makes that connection. He gives his customers the sense that they are in on the fashion and technology conversation. That they are forward-looking.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">But in the same rush to be seen as modern and cutting-edge, many brands espouse simplistic, rah-rah-rah narratives about technology. It\u2019s easy to support a one-sided rhetoric of the technological sublime. But tech is incredibly complex, and can\u2019t be bucketed into black and white use cases based on what\u2019s perceived as socially or commercially acceptable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">While the tide of popular opinion pushes us towards a polemic view of technology\u200a\u2014\u200apositive and negative\u200a\u2014\u200ait\u2019s the people who build and use tech to change the status quo who understand what it\u2019s really about: reach and influence. And they use that reach to achieve objectives that range from overthrowing governments with protest and calling out exploitative institutions, to streaming videos of themselves playing videogames and maintaining peer-to-peer networks for content sharing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_683\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-683\" style=\"width: 4000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vue.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1920x1200-3.jpg\" alt=\"Tech-assisted rebel meets mainstream. Illustration by Gauri Kumar.\" width=\"4000\" height=\"2500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vue.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1920x1200-3.jpg 4000w, https:\/\/www.vue.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1920x1200-3-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vue.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1920x1200-3-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vue.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1920x1200-3-1024x640.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4000px) 100vw, 4000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-683\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tech-assisted rebel meets mainstream. Illustration by Gauri Kumar.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">In parallel, technology is the amplifier that takes the story of the modern brand and its spirit of dissent, and disseminates it to a global audience who identify with the narrative and buy into its culture. Tech-assisted rebel meets mainstream is the new black.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"graf graf--h4 graf--empty\">The Tension Between Subversion and\u00a0Scale<\/h3>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">Justin Kan studied physics and psychology at Yale. In 2005, he and his team built justin.tv in an attempt to recreate something like The Truman Show in real life. He pictured it as a Big brother-style site which \u2018life-cast\u2019 the four founders\u200a\u2014\u200athey would carry the camera around all day and never turn it off. It was also a self-described bad idea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">The premise didn\u2019t receive traction, but it did reach people. And they began asking if they could stream their own videos instead, and Justin found a niche that was hitherto unexplored: video game streaming. People found it technically complex to set up cameras to stream live play, so the team behind justin.tv built an alternate platform called Twitch, hired a video game streamer and the rest is nerd history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">Twitch now has over 2.1 million broadcasters and a 100 million unique visitors every month. Kan and his team stumbled onto a highly scalable business by tapping into the deviation-integration dynamic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">In the fashion world, several game changers began by leveraging subversion to find a niche and then taking it to the world by integrating it with business. Most notable of them all is the punk movement started by Vivienne Westwood. Malcolm McLaren, the manager of the Sex Pistols, helped Vivienne open the boutique SEX and the subculture proliferated with artists like Patti Smith and Siouxsie Sioux adopting it. At the time, it was the popularity of punk in artistic circles which brought it the reach that ultimately made it mainstream.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">But technology and social media have accelerated this process, spinning rapidly off from how ideas like punk and Twitch grew. What took years for punk to establish can be done fairly quickly today if you tap into the right networks, but these networks come at a price. Social media influencer Logan Paul in <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/60-minutes-kim-kardashian-logan-paul-social-media-influencers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">conversation<\/a> with CBS News, recently said:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"graf graf--pullquote graf--startsWithDoubleQuote\"><p>\u201cI think anyone on the internet with eyeballs at this time and place is a bargain. Because it\u2019s so new, no one really knows what they\u2019re\u00a0worth.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">Social media influencers are the new face of monetized rebellion. We talked to Tiffany Arntson who founded the research division at The Future Laboratory, and created <a href=\"http:\/\/roguematters.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rogue Matters <\/a>to break boundaries and provoke new discourses across culture, commerce and communication. She believes that both human-centricity and deviation is important for influencers to gain a foothold today.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"graf graf--pullquote graf--startsWithDoubleQuote\"><p>\u201cPeople are always more interested in people than brands; it\u2019s logical influencers have become integral to help businesses close the gap with their audience. Even more so when there\u2019s some deviation from the familiar. Whether we like them or not, we trust individuals more than businesses or computers. And trust is essential to take people into new territory.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">But while Twitch pivoted for purely strategic reasons, the entrance of punk into the mainstream was not viewed placidly by the subcultures who originally adopted it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">Mass commercialization often compromises on ethics and authenticity. And now, the proliferation of technology into fashion and lifestyle is viewed just as warily. Will couture houses lose their identity if they start an eCommerce store or a shoppable website? Is it aligned with a healthy lifestyle brand to encourage people to get on social media?<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">This is where the balancing act begins.<\/p>\n<h3>Balancing Growth and\u00a0Ideals<\/h3>\n<section class=\"section section--body\">\n<div class=\"section-content\">\n<div class=\"section-inner sectionLayout--insetColumn\">\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">New York Times fashion editor Vanessa Friedman recently mentioned in a <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.glossy.co\/modern-media\/nyt-vanessa-friedman-the-customer-isnt-always-right\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Glossy podcast<\/a>, that when it comes to fashion, the customer can\u2019t be king. In an industry that is subjective and relies on the arbiters of fashion to lead the way, it can be counter-productive to put the customer in the middle of every decision made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">But personal choice does come into the picture when you look at it from the customer end of the spectrum. Fashion today trickles down from the leaders of fashion, trickles up through emerging street trends and trickles across segments with mass market fashion. This mix allows for a healthy amount of personal choice for a large segment of customers. They can pick and choose what they want, within the varied choices they\u2019re presented with. The commercialization of fashion is inevitable and necessary, and consumers are evolving with the times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">The recent launch of Vogue Arabia is a reflection of this. Young women with a disposable income who support modest fashion want to make a statement with their consumption. They want the same quality of branding as other scions of fashion, and modernism that aligns with their values.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">Subcultures don\u2019t need to adhere to the mainstream that is thrust on them indiscriminately. With technology, it is possible to hold on to individual and group ideals, while integrating into the larger picture in ways that align with those ideals. But for brands, it\u2019s important to note that subcultures are not only a great place to look for ideas, but they\u2019re also necessary for a diverse economic ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">Steve Mizrach, the cultural anthropologist, said it best:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"graf graf--pullquote graf--startsWithDoubleQuote\"><p>\u201cPeople who are interested in transgressing against the constraints people suffer under in post-industrial society shouldn\u2019t seek to reverse or halt technology: rather they should put it to a new, unwanted, unexpected, ironic use. The Machine need not crush spirituality, vitality, spontaneity\u200a\u2014\u200abut in order to do so, like the Terminator, we need to get a hold of it and reprogram it. Along the way it might even get to understand our point of\u00a0view.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">No, the machine need not crush subversion. In fact, it can\u2019t. Because machines look to us to understand behaviour and intent. And our differences are what make us worth learning about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">With no subversive ideas, the world will be far less interesting and human. For brands who want to make an emotional connect, it\u2019s time to start using machines to encourage those differences and cater to what makes us human, rather than smoothing out the rough edges.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-wrap\">\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\"><em>Disclaimer: Mind Over Matter is an editorial series. The featured opinions in this article are not an endorsement of Vue.ai or Mad Street Den.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">5<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span> Brands have an uneasy relationship with technology. On the surface, tech is the future. It\u2019s the story you tell if you want to be seen as someone who gets it. 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