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Micro Trends

Active Recovery

Brands are encouraging consumers to reset, restore and rejuvenate.

Micro Trends

Streamlined Shopping

Despite the speed and ease of online shopping, consumers are unwilling to completely relinquish physical stores.

Retail Experience : Online Shopping : Endless Aisles

Micro Trends

Band Brands

Once band merchandise was the preserve of kids who like heavy metal, but now it has become a booming industry that has expanded well beyond its roo...

Merchandise : Fashion : Anti-Authenticity

Micro Trends

Male Positivity

New cultural initiatives are re-examining masculinity by focusing on mental health, body image and depression.

Re-con Man : Masculinity : Mental Health

Micro Trends

On the app-walk

Fashion has found a new home. Rather than unveil their latest collections during glittering catwalk shows, fashion brands are increasingly heading ...

Vine : Tumblr : Fashion Show

Micro Trends

Unaged White Whiskies

White Dog, light whiskey and moonshine – a growing number of producers are launching these unaged white whiskies to cater for cocktail-loving consu...

Whisky : Aged : Cocktail

Viewpoints

Maurizio Ribotti : Without culture there is no commerce

Design Partners’ Maurizio Ribotti talks about culture and design.

Maurizio Ribotti : Zona Tortona : Design Partners

Communities

Regenizens

Meet the community-focused citizens who are reframing their relationship with consumption to be not just more sustainable, but also regenerative an...

Sustainabillity : Beauty : Society

Macro Trends

Beauty+

Added bounce, more colour, longer eyelashes, better hold, longer life – the beauty industry always has promised its customers something extra. Now,...

Make-up : Cosmetics : Health

Viewpoints

Compostable Cosmetics

British skincare brand Wildsmith and tech-bio innovator Shellworks are setting a new standard for sustainable luxury with Vivomer, a compostable, m...

Beauty : Sustainability : Design

Viewpoints

Weaving Omani Heritage into Haute Parfumerie

Amouage's chief creative officer Renaud Salmon talks to LS:N Global about embarking on a global retail expansion that creates a multisensory and a...

Luxury : Perfume : Middle East

Micro Trends

Topline Tableware

Younger generations are dusting off tabletop heirlooms, from crystals to silver cutlery, and driving a revival of traditional arts de la table – wi...

Luxury : Food & Drink : Design

Micro Trends

Furniture as a Service

With consumers less willing and less able to establish permanent homes, furniture brands are having to develop products and services that don’t rel...

Retail : Furniture : Hospitality

Daily Signals

Embracing male parenting and catering for multicultural hair

McDonald’s questions defined gender roles, Dizziak caters for ethnically diverse hair types, Uniqlo and Solange blur the line between art and comme...

Retail : Beauty : Wellness

Daily Signals

Well Told Health’s vegan supplements, India’s youth feed restaurant sector

CVS battles unrealistic beauty ideals, Shiseido uses customer hive mind, the rise of gut health and the dawn of peak tourism.

Retail : Beauty : Food & Drink

Design Directions

Sweet Allure

Cosmetics and food design aesthetics are converging as creatives borrow feminine design cues from the worlds of beauty and fashion to give interior...

Feminine : Convergence : Packaging

Big Ideas

Seek autumn/winter 2015 Review

This season the Berlin trade show landscape changed with the cancellation of stalwart event Bread & Butter. In an era in which niche, targeted sh...

Audi : PB 0110 : Enso

Markets

Fashion Tech

Will fashion be the next industry disrupted by technology?

Iris Van Herpen : Pauline Van Dongen : Google Glass

Macro Trends

New Emerging Affluents

When they were unbanked, uncredited and unregulated, brands were uninterested. But as billions from Guangzhou to Kolkata, Lagos and Santos earn mor...

Emering Affluents : Middle-class : Urban Migration

Micro Trends

Clean Medicine

We’ve seen the rise of concepts including ‘clean food’ and ‘clean beauty’, but now comes a new class of clean. Say hello to ‘clean medicine’.

Health : Wellness : Medicine

Daily Signals

Balenciaga signals deeper sport alignment with new range

Luxury fashion house Balenciaga has partnered with the National Basketball Association (NBA) on an autumn 2026 capsule collection that brings baske...

Fashion : Luxury : Sport

Daily Signals

Stat: Size inclusivity stalls on spring/summer 2026 catwalks

The Vogue Business Spring/Summer 2026 Size Inclusivity Report reveals disappointing progress on fashion’s size representation. Of 9,038 runway look...

Fashion : Identity : Stat

Daily Signals

The Good Pill Co aims to certify the under-regulated supplements market

Newly launched certification body The Good Pill Co has secured strategic funding from sports medicine experts The Nxt Level Group to accelerate its...

Health : Wellness : Supplements

Daily Signals

Stat: Vibe-based budgeting is shaping young consumers’ spending habits

Amid economic uncertainty, Gen Z and Millennials are turning to vibe-based budgeting – adjusting spending based on how the economy feels rather tha...

Gen Z : Millennials : Finance

Daily Signals

Stat: Young adults are redefining romantic relationships on their terms

As romantic norms fragment, 20% of people are now unknowingly practising ‘relationship anarchy’, according to the latest State of Dating repor...

Statistic : Stat : Dating

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