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Viewpoints

Biohacking with hallucinogens

Will psilocybin mushrooms and LSD be next year’s go-to ingredients for optimisers?

Viewpoints

Immersive is everywhere: But what does it mean?

From virtual reality to theatre, ‘immersive’ is the word of the moment. But what does it mean?

Oculus Rift : Normcore : Futuretainment

Macro Trends

Feedback Frontiers

As communications with consumers become more circular and conversational, brands are treating every micro-interaction as a valuable opportunity to ...

Retail : E-commerce : Digital

Markets

Luxury Matrix 2014

LS:N Global plots the shifts in luxury in 2014 and identifies where key luxury brands sit in the five stages that define the luxury market.

The Luxury Matrix : DKNY : Moschino

Macro Trends

Futuretainment

As audiences flock to immersive, convivial experiences, entertainers are blurring the distinctions between spectator and performer, digital and phy...

Gaming : Third Rail Projects : Immersive Theatre

Communities

Diet Hackers

Consumers entering a post-functional relationship with food and drink are seeking to build resilience and find balance.

Communities : Food And Drink

Big Ideas

Future Forecast 2023: Health & Wellness

Our mental wellbeing has become just as important as our physical wellbeing. In 2023, both brands and their physical spaces will increasingly addre...

Health : Wellness : Technology

Big Ideas

Why Hotel Rooms are the Next Retail Frontier

Brands are augmenting the guest experience by turning hotel and rentals into immersive storefronts, ushering in a long-awaited revival of souvenirs.

Travel & Hospitality : Retail : Hotels

Micro Trends

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

Communities

Untethered Luxurians

Challenging what it means to be wealthy, this community has chosen a lifestyle that prioritises freedom and self-fulfilment over a settl...

Luxury : Travel : Hospitality

Markets

Bleisure Update

If you talk about the pressures of work, you are probably a Generation Joneser. And if you still believe in the work/life balance, you are one of o...

Bleisure : The Body Shop : Flexistentialists

Viewpoints

Situ Live’s storytelling is augmenting physical retail

Situ Live’s playhouse is a home-like space where technology, gadgets and exercise equipment are brought to life, giving brands a direct line to sho...

Retail : Technology : Customer Experience

Micro Trends

Wandering Workers

With business travel grounded in 2020, the travel industry is exploring fresh directions in Bleisure and business stays that inspire remote, roamin...

Travel : Hospitality : Hotel

Big Ideas

Food brands get a taste for fashion

From fast food streetwear to luxury drink carriers, brands are launching clothing collections as a tool to market products and reveal their persona...

Food : Drinks : Fashion

Viewpoints

Ivy Ross on neuroaesthetics proving the value of design

Google’s vice-president of hardware design discusses how different interiors affect our wellbeing

Milan Salone Internazionale Del Mobile 2019

Micro Trends

The Elevated Outdoors

Affluent consumers are swapping safaris and skiing for extreme outdoor experiences, turning to luxury brands to help boost their resilience.

Luxury : Fashion : Travel

Big Ideas

Four key themes from CES 2019

Key talking points from this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas included the next generation of AI, embedding transparency into technolo...

CES 2019 : Technology : Artificial Intelligence

Markets

High-end Pets Market

While Millennials continue to delay parenthood, or eschew it altogether, they are spending billions on luxurious lifestyles for their pets.

Luxury : Retail : Future Family

News

A luxury chalet for glacier explorers, while AI creates bespoke skincare

Sheldon Chalet turns luxurians into glacial adventurers, Proven offers an AI-driven skincare journey, Budweiser pays attention to the young Chinese...

Travel : Beauty : Drinks

News

Bob Bob Ricard dishes out discounts, while Alibaba looks to real-world retail

Gucci gains street cred through collaboration, too many tv ads linked to poor diets, Kodak creates its own cryptocurrency.

Food : Retail : Hospitality

News

Today’s headlines including Uber addressing congestion in Asia

In today’s daily digest: HERE magazine offers LGBTQ space to experiment, Estée Lauder finds a home on Google’s Assistant, mums appreciate funny fam...

Mobility : Youth : Beauty

Design Directions

Bivouac NYC

Living and working in busy urban centres can leave many yearning for the tranquility of the countryside and simpler things, an escape from the torr...

Urban : Time Out : Pause

Design Directions

Appartement 50

This summer, strangers knocked on the door of Jean-Marc Drut’s apartment. Each wanted to have a look around his home, situated in a Le Corbusier-de...

Design : Bouroullec Brothers : Jean-Marc Drut

Big Ideas

Wellrooms in 2035

As the bathroom evolves into the wellroom, in 2035 houses could be designed to host functional spas, health data centres and sustainability eco-hub...

Future Of The Bathroom : Bathrooms : Bathroom Products

Big Ideas

Future Forecast 2023: Luxury

Luxury is once more becoming exclusive, guilded and hyper-curated. It is also about assets that can be traded and traced in digital as well as phys...

Luxury : Fashion : Retail

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