Micro Trends

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

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Micro Trends

Resilience Branding

As the Trump administration rolls back nationwide government DEI initiatives, progressive businesses are choosing to re-affirm their commitment to inclusion by adopting new language rather than retreating from their efforts.

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Pre-teen Protein

The growing protein market for kids is both premium and purposeful, as Gen Alpha and their parents seek to fortify their physical health and appearance.

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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.

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Matrescence

The concept of matrescence highlights the profound physical, emotional and neurological shifts experienced by new mothers, presenting brands with a unique chance to engage and support parents during this transformative life stage.

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Health Goth

A new style tribe is taking fashion’s obsession with haute activewear to macabre extremes.

Subculture : Activewear : Goth

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Whole-chain Thinking

Innovative start-ups are embracing vertical integration as a way of appealing to authenticity-hungry Millennials.

Vertical Integration : Shoes Of Prey : Zady

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Chivsters

In the UK, both ‘chav’ and ‘hipster’ are pejorative terms. Now a new hybrid youth aesthetic and lifestyle are emerging from the tail end of these m...

UK : Hipster : Just Nots

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Virtual Browsing

Traditionally, online shopping has meant speed and convenience, but online stores are borrowing the experiential elements of physical retail, ...

Kenzo : Online : Experience

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Mass Tap

As consumers seek increasingly intuitive technological interactions, brands are simplifying previously complex processes into a simple tap.

Intuitive Futures : Mass Tap : Awakening Tech

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Everyday Re-enchantment

The advent of the Internet of Things need not mean a house full of sterile hubs and sensors. Increasingly, LS:N Global has noted a marriage of tech...

Awakening Tech : Delirious Home : Yves Béhar

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New York Safari 2014

New York remains the nerve centre of American creativity across the media, fashion and finance industries, even as a new crop of technology and e...

New York : Millennials : Experience Economy

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Online Escapism

Digital experiences are taking on dream-like qualities and even mimicking drug-fuelled highs.

Awakening Tech : Game As Art : Game Imitates Art

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Digital Collecting

Art that is created and consumed on screens is catching on thanks to its low cost, portability and anti-elitist image.

Digital Art : Neon Mob : Sedition

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Big Data Beauty

Beauty brands are harnessing the power of big data to create engaging campaigns, apps and platforms.

Big Data : Apps : Beauty

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Aspirational Fakes

As the art world questions how luxury brands create value in a globalised supply chain, designers are celebrating bootleg aesthetics and surreal ...

Bootleg : Instagram : Memes

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St Petersburg Safari

While Communism has left its mark on St Petersburg, buildings have been restored in recent years and are being re-appropriated as co-working space...

St Petersburg : Ginza Project : Ligovsky 50

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Flawed Fashions

Bored and disenfranchised by the airbrushed vapidity of mainstream fashion, some designers are celebrating imperfection, chiming with The Sharded...

The Sharded Self : Me-conomy : The Me-Conomy

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Insta-real

Consumers have a love-hate relationship with Instagram’s cult of lifestyle curation.

Instagram : Social Media : Happiness

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Smart Philanthropy

Forget charity galas and fundraisers – brands are using smart crowdsourcing strategies to convert unused consumer resources such as mobile data a...

Humanitarian Campaigns : Unused Resources : Crowd-sourcing

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Sweet Tooth Hospitality

Sugar may be the new gluten – the latest foodstuff to be targeted in the media – but despite the bad press, a host of new restaurants and retailers...

Dessert : The Pudding Bar : Luxury

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