Sarah Bores is a Senior Behavioural Analyst at Canvas8. With an MA in Cultural and Critical Studies, a BSc in Psychology and a wealth of experience in qualitative brand and communications research, Sarah has a passion for understanding people, ideas and culture. Outside of work, Sarah can be found either listening to a podcast or daydreaming about snowboarding.

People are taking a patchwork approach to self-expression to feel like they have control over how their identity is generated. Yet as individual expression becomes more mutable and mistrust in social systems abounds, there’s one place above all that people are seeking integrity and guidance: brands.

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Balenciaga is immersing fashion lovers in futuristic mixed reality with an app for the Apple Vision Pro. With this move, the brand is seeking to cement its status as a visionary pioneer while giving the world a taste of what a new era of so-called ‘spatial commerce’ might be like.