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Modest Wear Market 2019

Beyond luxury apparel, fashion brands and retailers are winning over modern Muslim customers with new iterations of modest clothing.

Fashion : Sport : Leisure

Daily Signals

M-commerce goes bricks-and-mortar, interactive typography made for AR

Depop helps users grow their brand, Sensei prioritises nutrition over yield of crops, Nike creates a retail destination for women.

Retail

Markets

Global Spirits Market

The landscape of the global spirits market reveals changing consumer tastes, highlighting the desire for more premium products and sophisti...

Drinks : Alcohol : Spirits

Markets

Tech Market: Part 2

How are artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things and virtual reality technologies reshaping consumer lives?

Digital Culture : AI Learning : VR

Communities

Shanghai Singles

Unmarried women in their late twenties or older are often derogatorily called sheng nu or ‘leftover women’ in Chinese society, implying that they’v...

The Girly Girl : Dafang Chai : The Multi-Tasker

Communities

Beauty Mavericks

The Beauty Mavericks have gone their own way, creating their own products and services to cater for their specific beauty needs.

Inclusive Beauty : Neutral Culture : Curl Power

Viewpoints

Inventing the Aged Spirits of Tomorrow

LS:N Global sits down with Ben Branson, founder of Sylva, the innovative distillery using sonic maturation to create no- and low-alcohol alternativ...

Drink : Sustainability : Non-alcoholic

Markets

Food Austerity Innovators

Global events are causing widespread disruption to the food sector, with innovators and start-ups helping to assuage rising prices and abating supp...

Food : Drink : Society

Markets

Emerging Youth: AfroLATAM

Despite historical socio-economic disadvantages, Black Latin Americans are making themselves heard through a unique sense of unity and resilience.

Youth : Media : Workplace

Big Ideas

Five Ways Sports Fandom is Going Virtual

As sports events are revived, brands are bouncing back with immersive digital innovations that bring fans closer to their teams than ever before.

Media : Technology : Sports

Markets

Emerging Youth: Poland

Despite living under an ultra-conservative government, Polish youth are gaining the strength to fight for feminist and LGBTQ+ rights by increasingl...

Youth : Nightlife : Activism

Big Ideas

Design Miami/ 2014 Preview

Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the Design Miami/ fair promises an incomparable selection of international galleries.

Art Basel Miami Beach : Jonathan Muecke : Neo-Kitsch

Micro Trends

Future Forecast 2025: Fashion

In 2025 fashion will become functional and fun, and embrace new retail formats. From collaborations between high-end designers and everyday value b...

Fashion : Sustainability : Luxury

Viewpoints

The youth voices of Intersectional Environmentalism

With one-size-fits-all sustainability goals excluding people of colour, Gen Z are combining social justice with environmental activism.

Youth : Sustainability : Intersectionality

Daily Signals

A retrospective on the stand-out projects at London Design Festival

Following the London Design Festival 2017, LS:N Global reflects on five of the most thought-provoking works.

Product Design : Food & Drink : Culture

Markets

Global Beauty Market 2016: Part 2

In part two of our Global Beauty Market, we examine the changing cultural attitudes that are giving men even more permission to care about their lo...

Scents : Fragrance : Natural Beauty

Big Ideas

Design Miami/ 2015: Part 1

New global visions of luxury and an exploration of what authenticity means for the design world characterised the 11th edition of Design Miami/.

Luxury Design : American Design : South American Design

Markets

Natural and Organic Beauty

Consumers are increasingly aware of the health benefits of natural ingredients in beauty products, and demanding transparency from beauty brands ab...

Mintel : The Body Shop : Kiehl's

Design Directions

Puma Creative Factory

New Millennials want to mod, hack and customise their products. And as a result, brands have responded with webstores that let people personalise t...

Design : Shoe : Mumbai

Big Ideas

Localise to Survive

The third report in our Rebranding Sustainability series looks at how localisation can become a powerful marketing tool and a meaningful sustainabi...

Retail : Sustainability : Luxury

Markets

Spirits Innovations

From glassless packaging to raicilla, sotol and aquavit, we are likely to see a variety of innovations in the spirits market in 2024 as it weathers...

Sustainability : Food & Drink : Technology

Micro Trends

Future Forecast 2024: Travel & Hospitality

2023 was a remarkable year for travel. The post-pandemic ‘revenge travel’ phenomenon shot to new heights as global travellers spent unprecedented a...

Travel : Hospitality : Luxury

Design Directions

Dutch Design Week 2015

At this year’s Dutch Design Week, designers tested and challenged perceptions of the material world.

Design Academy Eindhoven : Materials : Virtual World

Micro Trends

Digital Detox Destinations

With the aim of finding a solution to the incessant bombardment from our digital devices, people are swapping their screens for bucolic scenes, see...

Travel : Analogue : Mindfulness

Big Ideas

Destination Debrief: Perth

As Western Australia’s coastal city of Perth becomes a top destination for international and domestic tourists, growth is being fuelled by a revita...

Travel : Hospitality : Australia

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