LS:N Global

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

Daily Signals

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

Daily Signals

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

Daily Signals

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

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

Micro Trends

Menopause Travel

A wave of luxurious, expert-led travel businesses is shattering taboos and redefining menopause with a focus on education, empowerment and enjoyment.

Menopause : Women's Health : Identities

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

Viewpoints

How can hotels become community-centric?

Using a hotel as a moniker for civic infrastructure, Amahra Spence, co-founder of MAIA Group, imagines how hospitality can be reshaped by community...

Hospitality : Travel : Leisure

Big Ideas

What’s Next for the Entre-Celebrity?

From deep diversity training to TikTok-famous consultants, the C-suite celebrity is rapidly redefining the role of the brand spokesperson.

Retail : Media : Workplace

Micro Trends

Cyclical Fitness

Fitness brands are empowering women to harness their hormonal cycles as a way of optimising exercise routines and enhancing overall wellbeing.

Health And Fitness : Women's Health : Health And Wellness

Daily Signals

A healthy convenience store, botox and beverages

The Goods Mart champions smarter eating, Christopher Hanna medical spa offers fillers and cocktails, Xbox translates real moves into gaming language.

Food : Technology : Beauty

Daily Signals

The essential Milan Salone 2018 Debrief

Designers at this year’s Milan Salone del Mobile Internazionale stayed away from political messages, instead focusing on issues such as pollution, ...

Milan Salone : Design : Retail

Markets

Total Beauty: Part 2

Part two of our special report examines a grown-up version of beauty that includes the best of wellness, health and fitness, and highlights the bes...

Beauty : Holistic : Wellness

Micro Trends

Cyclical beauty

Beauty brands are taking inspiration from the wellness industry and creating products aligned with natural human cycles and chronobiology.

Beauty : Cyclical : Hormones

Trend Tracker

The New Sublimity

Identified by LS:N Global in 2012, The New Sublimity macrotrend charted a widespread consumer movement away from busy, hyper-connected, digital ...

Suffocation : Spiritualism : Sublime

Micro Trends

Yama Girls

In Japan, an increasing number of young women are wearing colourful mountain gear as an urban fashion statement and taking to the mountains. These ...

Nike : Marmot : Hunter

Viewpoints

The Wellness Reset

Energy fields, somatic sensing and spiritual technologies are resetting elite approaches to wellness. LS:N Global speaks to Carlos Urrutigoity, gen...

Health : Technology : Hospitality

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