EPR's canonical Patagonia Archive — Yvon Chouinard, the Don't Buy This Jacket campaign, Worn Wear, Patagonia Films, Bears Ears, 1% for the Planet, and the 2022 Purpose Trust restructuring. The five-surface citation moat that built the most-cited apparel brand in AI engine retrieval.
Social media and email work better when they're run as a single integrated practice. Glossier, Substack, and Patagonia each show what that looks like \u2014 community-led, editorially serious, and built around the brand's actual relationship with the customer.
Mission-driven brands command pricing power, talent, and consumer loyalty competitors cannot replicate. Patagonia, Bombas, Cotopaxi, Tentree, Warby Parker — what separates structural commitment from purpose washing in the AI-search era.
