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Culturepreneur

Culturepreneur

MINDED 4 Episodes Sep 8, 2026

Culturepreneur is a weekly editorial show about the global creative and cultural economy, hosted by Yuri Xavier. Each episode features conversations with journalists, editors, and industry leaders who are close to the stories shaping culture and the business behind it. The format focuses on what happened, why it matters, and what it might signal for the future. Episodes close with two recurring segments: Good Call, Bad Call, offering fast verdicts on the week's business decisions, and The Floor Is Yours, where a contributor shares one idea they want heard. The show is a vertical of MINDED, produced in partnership with the Créateurs Design Association, with notes, sources, and transcripts available at mindedpodcast.com.

Episodes

Inside Fashion’s Reset: Creative Directors, Luxury Prices and Anna Wintour
Inside Fashion’s Reset: Creative Directors, Luxury Prices and Anna Wintour Sep 8, 2026 00:33:52 Fashion houses are expected to do two contradictory things: protect their identity and continually reinvent it.Mimma Viglezio argues that the tension is becoming harder to manage.In this episode of Culturepreneur, we examine what she calls the “tyranny of the codes”: the logos, archives, symbols and inherited expectations that make a fashion house recognizable but can also constrain the person hir
AI, Extreme Heat and the New Economics of Design
AI, Extreme Heat and the New Economics of Design Sep 1, 2026 00:22:12 As AI makes creative production faster and more predictable, could rebellion become a competitive advantage?Design journalist and critic Anne Quito joins Culturepreneur to examine some of the forces changing the economics of design, architecture and culture.The conversation begins in Europe, where extreme heat is forcing cities and buildings designed for another climate to adapt. With as much as 8
Can AI Create Taste? Luxury, Digital Fashion and the Future of Creativity
Can AI Create Taste? Luxury, Digital Fashion and the Future of Creativity Aug 25, 2026 00:27:57 As artificial intelligence makes image creation faster and cheaper, the more consequential question for fashion and luxury may be what becomes harder to reproduce: taste, identity and original judgment.In this episode of Culturepreneur, Yuri Xavier sits down with Gigi Casimiro to examine how technology is changing the economics and cultural infrastructure of fashion.They discuss the return of digi
Disney Needs TikTok Creators. But Who Gets Paid?
Disney Needs TikTok Creators. But Who Gets Paid? Aug 16, 2026 00:34:42 Disney is opening its characters to TikTok creators. What it has not opened is a line on the balance sheet.Yuri Xavier sits down with creator Nolan Daniel White to work through the week's biggest stories in the creative economy: the Disney and TikTok content-sharing deal, the IAB forecast putting social video ahead of connected TV in US digital ad spend for the first time, and the Munich Regio

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