Micro Trends

Specific shifts in consumer behaviour that are changing the business environment in the short term.

Repair Renaissance

Retail spaces are transforming into skill-sharing hubs, embedding circularity through community-led repair workshops.

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From shifting definitions of value to TikTok-fuelled commerce and hormone health retreats, our analysts unpack what’s new and next on LS:N Global.

Micro Trends

Heritage Brand-umentaries

Legacy brands are turning to cinematic documentaries and long-form storytelling to showcase their history, craftsmanship and cultural roots.

Micro Trends

Sober Social Fix

As the sober-curious movement strengthens in the US, younger generations are redefining how to enjoy going out with friends, opening up opportunities for hospitality and nightlife brands.

Micro Trends

Content Commerce

Consumers are watching and scrolling their way through a blended media landscape where streaming services, social media and gaming carry more seamless commerce opportunities than ever.

Micro Trends

Innovation Debrief 2025: Nature’s New Language

As the climate crisis intensifies, innovators are using design, data and sensory storytelling to give nature a voice. From glowing rivers to talkin...

Design : Sustainability : Technology

Micro Trends

Innovation Debrief 2025: Certified in Space

Tested in space' is fast becoming the ultimate badge of innovation – a signal of exceptional quality and in-house expertise. If a product can survi...

Luxury : Food & Drink : Fashion

Micro Trends

Innovation Debrief 2025: Mischief Marketing

Roasting competitors in public? Serving kegs to pregnant women? To cut through the noise, marketers are leaning into ‘doing the wrong thing’ to sho...

Advertising & Branding : Food & Drink : Pop-culture & Media

Micro Trends

Innovation Debrief 2025: The New Age of Discovery

Where can consumers still find newness amid algorithm fatigue, ad blockers and saturated content platforms? Part of the answer lies in gatekeeping ...

Technology : Pop-culture & Media : Retail

Micro Trends

Innovation Debrief 2025: Craftsmanship Safeguards

As forecast in our Luxury Recrafted and New Codes of Luxury macrotrend reports, brands are becoming taste-makers and patrons of the arts by investi...

Luxury : Fashion : Design

Micro Trends

Innovation Debrief 2025: Automated Accessibility

Although calls to defund diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives across the US are growing louder, tech innovators continue to develop cu...

Beauty : Technology : Wearables

Micro Trends

Innovation Debrief 2025: Sober Socials

Amid digital overload, consumers are seeking moments of connection away from the internet. But for many, sobriety, connection and affordability are...

Society : Sports & Leisure : Youth

Micro Trends

Innovation Debrief 2025: Collagen’s New Frontiers

Growing alongside collagen’s strong foothold in the beauty, health and supplements categories, a new wave of collagen-infused products is making a ...

Food & Drink : Beauty : Health & Wellness

Micro Trends

Innovation Debrief 2025: Resilient Appetites

In our Adaptive Appetites macrotrend report, we forecast that climate change and resource scarcity would drive the food and drink industry to re-in...

Technology : Food & Drink : Luxury

Micro Trends

Innovation Debrief 2025: The Augmented Human

We’ve entered The Synthocene Era, a new chapter in which human intelligence is enhanced, not replaced, by machine intelligence. The next frontier i...

Technology : Health & Wellness : Fashion

Micro Trends

Masculinity Reset Retreats

The wellness industry is shedding old stereotypes through men’s mental wellbeing retreats that reframe masculinity around mindfulness, movement and...

Health & Wellness : Society : Travel & Hospitality

Micro Trends

Repair Renaissance

Retail spaces are transforming into skill-sharing hubs, embedding circularity through community-led repair workshops.

Fashion : Sustainability : Luxury

Micro Trends

EQ-Beauty

AI is redefining personalised beauty, shifting from data-driven logic to emotionally intelligent tools that bring empathy, intuition and expert car...

Beauty : Technology : AI

Micro Trends

Soft Sports

Brands are leaning into a softer approach to sports that prioritises ritual, community and holistic wellbeing over performance culture.

Sports & Leisure : Society : Health & Wellness

Micro Trends

Adaptive Arenas

As sports fandom grows stronger, sports bodies and clubs are introducing new technologies to make live events accessible to spectators with impaire...

Sports & Leisure : Technology : Health & Wellness

Micro Trends

EQ-homes

From calming kettles to mood-sensing fridges, brands are embedding emotional intelligence into everyday appliances, signalling a shift from smart t...

Technology : Health & Wellness : Design

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