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Big Ideas

Bleisure Redefined

Initially capturing work and leisure fusions for business travellers, the Bleisure concept is now rapidly changing the travel industry.

Big Ideas

Future Forecast 2023: Youth

From youth culture’s flat age future to wise-beyond-their-years Zalphas, we select five key directions in youth culture for 2023.

Youth : Media & Entertainment : Society

Markets

Imagination Travel

The virtual travel market of our post-pandemic future will swap clunky technology and headsets for the power of human imagination.

Travel : Tourism : Hospitality

Markets

Hair Removal Market

The conversation on hair removal is changing, from the aesthetics of men’s shaving to the way people achieve their hairless look.

Beauty : Wellness : Design

Daily Signals

Global Futures Forum: Meet our disruptors of 2017

We explore how six disruptors are challenging thinking in their fields and changing the future landscape through their work.

Wellness : Retail : Food & Drink

Markets

Global Beauty Market 2016: Part 1

We examine the changing face of the global beauty market and the rapid rise of exciting new trends in the industry, from Social Power to Phygital S...

Instagram : Skincare : 3ina

Markets

Luxury Travel Futures Market – Trends

For experience-hungry luxury travellers, one-of-a-kind adventures are more important than prestigious products.

Luxury Travel : The Polarity Paradox : The Convergence Economy

Micro Trends

Moral Commerce

In the wake of Black Lives Matter, consumers are seeking brand allies and making shopping decisions informed by their socio-political values.

Retail : Finance : Sustainability

Viewpoints

Beauty has a responsibility to cater for men of colour

Blake Rascoe and Patrick Boateng, co-founders of skincare brand Ceylon, explain beauty’s representation problem and why brands need to prioritise r...

Beauty : New Masculinity : Skincare

Big Ideas

Milan 2013 Preview

The biggest design event on the calendar is here again. Italy’s industrial centre will play host to a myriad of new trends and design directions as...

Design : Studio FormaFantasma : Interiors

Macro Trends

The Great Wealth Transfer

Wealth ownership, distribution and the politics that influence cross-generational spending are all in flux, according to the latest findings of The...

Luxury : Gen Z : HNWI

Markets

Chinese fashion brands to watch

Beijing – New Emerging Affluents in China shop at domestic fast fashion retailers with global aspirations alongside foreign brands that have expand...

China : Beijing : H&M

Behaviours

Emerging Youth: UAE

The UAE’s Gen Z are leading the nation’s evolution by redefining tradition to mirror their own values and vision.

Youth : UAE : Gen Z

Markets

Sponsorship Futures

Current estimates show that despite recession and the ensuing collapse in advertising expenditure, worldwide spending on sponsorship and related ac...

Sponsorship : Emotional Economy : Red Bull

Macro Trends

Redemptive Diets

Brands and consumers are uniting to build future-fit food systems that support changing social values, protect precious resources and secure supply...

Food : Drink : Society

Big Ideas

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

Futures 100

Futures 100 Innovators: February

In our second instalment of Futures 100 Innovators, we spotlight the people democratising Web3, giving voices to disabled youth and augmenting luxury.

Futures 100 Innovators : Beauty : Food

Communities

Delhi Revivalists

A creative mela, or festival, is taking off in New Delhi’s Hauz Khaz Village. Alternative designers, fashionistas and foodies are putting their own...

Food : Tea Room Traditionalist : Typo-Preservist

Markets

AI Optimism Market

Pushing back on doom, dive into the AI boom’s potential to make consumers healthier, more productive and equal.

AI : Creativity : Technology

Markets

New Luxury Millennials: Update

New Luxury Millennials (NLMs), the well-heeled, high-spending branch of the collaborative, creative, entrepreneurial Millennials, are rapidly becom...

Millennials : Ipsos Mendelsohn Affluent Survey : India

Markets

Public Transport Futures

A new era of public transport is taking shape. From AI-powered networks to free travel trials and zero-emission fleets, the future of mobility is s...

Transport : Public Transport : Travel

Micro Trends

Membership Retail

A wave of apparel brands are shunning mass selling in favour of membership models, in turn reducing product waste and cultivating stronger communit...

Retail : Memberships : Loyalty

Big Ideas

Five Future Home Scenarios for 2050

As the climate crisis escalates, our population ages, and the way we live is reshaped by new technologies and materials, our homes will look very d...

Society : Sustainability : Health And Wellness

Markets

Asian Urban Farming Market

Concerns about food security, climate change and loss of livelihood are re-affirming urban farming as a model for sustainable living in Asia’s me...

Sustainability : Urban Farming : Food

Markets

Chocolate Market

Despite climate change threatening supply chains, the chocolate sector is thriving, with product innovation fuelling regional flavours and free-fro...

Food : Sustainability : Supply Chains

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