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Financial Times Business of Luxury 2025: The New Shape of Global Luxury

Luxury is evolving through post-purchase care, storytelling in resale and digital product passports, all in service of building deeper connections ...

Luxury : Retail : Fashion

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Brand Innovation Debrief: Hyrox

Move over Pilates princesses, Hyrox athletes are the new consumer group every business should have on their radar. These fitness-fanatics are disru...

Health & Wellness : Hyrox : Sports & Leisure

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World Retail Congress 2025: Trust as the Ultimate Currency

As the retail industry navigates economic uncertainty and cultural transformation, trust, technology and adaptability transpire as key drivers of s...

Retail : Global Event : Luxury

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Branding in the Age of Elasticity

As the US enters a time of cultural volatility and political division, brands face a choice: retreat, react or re-root. 

Branding : Advertising : Design

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Time as Luxury: Walpole British Luxury Summit 2025

In an era when time is the ultimate luxury, brands are rethinking what it means to feel, create and care in more human-centric ways. LS:N Global un...

Luxury : Health & Wellness : Hospitality

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Arabian Travel Market 2025: Five Trends to Watch

Global travel preferences are undergoing a major transformation. From the UAE’s rise as a next-generation entertainment hub to offering more inclus...

Tourism : Travel & Hospitality : Entertainment

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Brand Innovation Debrief: Aman

Aman stands at the pinnacle of ultra-luxury, marrying other-worldly natural beauty, bespoke hospitality and unrivalled rare experiences perfe...

Luxury : Travel : Hospitality

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Milan Design Week 2025: Transformative Touchpoints

Grand marketing statements, conversational installations and archival classics took centre stage at Milan Design Week 2025.

Design : Exhibition : Technology

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SXSW 2025: Designing AI With Intent

At SXSW 2025, the focus was on AI designed with intention and empathy rather than defaulted into systems shaped by control and efficiency.

SXSW 2025 : AI : Intentional AI

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Designing for Extinction

Some things are meant to last. Others are meant to disappear. As industries phase out wasteful systems, extinction becomes an innovation opportunit...

Sustainability : Design : Technology

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Six Storified Retail Environments

Storified retail crosses entertainment with hospitality, offering brand experiences that immerse visitors in emotive, local and cultural moments wh...

Retail : Luxury : Fashion

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IFE 2025: Balancing Health and Hedonism

The International Food & Drink Event focused on key topics such as health, self-optimisation, transparency and indulgence, highlighting the con...

Food & Drink : Technology : Health & Wellness

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The Download: Fashion Month A/W 2025–2026

From Y2K nostalgia to scripted drama and robots – everything new and notable from the autumn/winter 2025–2026 fashion month in one easy download.

Fashion : Fashion Month AW25-26 : Fashion Month

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ITB Berlin 2025: Six Trends to Watch

From the rise of the Indian traveller to the influence of TikTok on destination discovery, LS:N Global explores the key trends from ITB Berlin 2025.

Travel & Hospitality : ITB Berlin 2025 : Gen Z

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SXSW 2025: Reclamation Versus Resistance

SXSW 2025 marked a radical shift from resistance to reclamation, as industry leaders build agency in a challenging democracy, create decentralised ...

Society : Media : Technology

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Sustainability is Dead

Sustainability as we know it is dead. Long live sustainability. A new approach is needed that reflects today’s world of increasingly blended physic...

Sustainability : Climate Crisis : Environment

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Brand Innovation Debrief: Refy

By blending minimalist innovation, community-driven marketing and immersive brand experiences, viral beauty brand Refy is proving it’s here to stay.

Refy : Beauty : TikTok

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NRF 2025: The Rise of Modular Retail

Sephora is leading a new wave of modular retail, transforming stores into flexible, ever-changing spaces designed to evolve with consumer trends an...

NRF 2025 : Modular Retail : Sephora

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NRF 2025: Escapism Retail

Escapism retail invites shoppers to step into another world, offering immersive experiences that provide a welcome escape from everyday life.

Retail : Luxury : Fashion

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Breakthrough Biohacks

What are the next buzzword ingredients and treatments linked to longevity lifestyles? We highlight the pathways and biohacks maximising longevity a...

Health : Wellness : Longevity

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The ideas and innovations that hint at the future of the consumer landscape