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Viewpoints

Welcome to the post-social era

With the advent of Web 3.0, scrolling through major social media platforms will be usurped by small-scale decentralised social networks where priva...

Markets

Affirmative Avatars Market

As the line blurs between people’s real-life personas and online avatars, socially conscious netizens are seeking digital fashion that reflects the...

Gaming : Avatars : Web3

Micro Trends

Digital Fit

With product returns costing US retailers a staggering £254bn ($351bn, €287bn) in lost sales every year, according to a National Retail Federatio...

Fashion : Retail : Digital

Micro Trends

Digital Fabric

As new technologies help to facilitate fashion-buying in digital spaces, brands are exploring how they can translate the tactility of materials int...

Fashion : Retail : Digital

Big Ideas

How AI is creating the future of fashion

Amber Jae Slooten, co-founder and creative director of The Fabricant, on how artificial intelligence can be used creatively within the design proce...

Fashion : Artificial Intelligence : The Fabricant

Micro Trends

Spiritual Cosplay

Gen Z’s appetite for mysticism has infused the fashion world, drawing on pseudo-spirituality and the cohort’s desire for escapism.

Youth : Fashion : Society

Micro Trends

Future Forecast 2024: Pop Culture & Media

A saturated media environment has left consumers tired of old news formats. Instead, they want new forms of stimulation and entertainment that can ...

Media : Pop Culture : Entertainment

Big Ideas

New York Fashion Week spring/summer 2015: Retail and innovation

New York Fashion Week is about more than just the catwalk. LS:N Global looks at the week’s innovation highlights beyond the runways.

NYFW : New York Fashion Week : Gareth Pugh

Big Ideas

Five Future Paths for Metaverse Beauty

Shifting focus from e-commerce to experience marketing, beauty firms are seizing upon the metaverse to educate, experiment and boost interaction.

Beauty : Wellness : Metaverse

Macro Trends

Community Commerce

A new wave of decentralised retail concepts are transforming e-commerce as consumers look for alternative ways to access and exchange products and ...

Retail : Media : Entertainment

Micro Trends

Future Forecast 2025: Pop Culture & Media

From immersive experiences to creator-driven content and innovative storytelling, pop culture and media innovators are reshaping how audiences enga...

Pop Culture & Media : Immersive Experience : Creator Economy

Micro Trends

Data Designers

Data is the latest design tool in town and it is being used to shape better decisions on product development and marketing.

Data : Advertising : Lyst

Big Ideas

I was promoted by Artificial Intelligence

Through the lens of a fictional future scenario, we explore how technology is driving key behavioural shifts among brands and consumers. This month...

Workplace : Recruitment : Digital

Big Ideas

Brand Innovation Debrief:  Alo Yoga

Alo Yoga has grown from its Los Angeles home into a globally renowned and coveted brand, using aspirational luxury, the rise of sporty lifestyles a...

Fashion : Sports & Leisure : Retail

Macro Trends

Alternet Economies

A technological counter-culture is decentralising capitalism, reforming the internet and powering new value frontiers for creators, consumers and b...

Technology : FinTech : Internet

Trends

Reports

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Reports : Retail : Sustainability

Viewpoints

How 3D body scanning will reduce fashion returns

The Bureau’s technology is taking fittings from models to the masses, forecasting a future of 3D-printed, bespoke fashion.

Fashion : Retail : Technology

Big Ideas

Milan Salone 2017: Review

This year’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan questioned the role of design in the current political climate, through new democratic f...

Civic Brands : Design : Virtual Reality

Micro Trends

Metaverse Architecture

Eminent architects are laying foundations in the metaverse, using the creativity offered by Web3 to create daring digital dwellings and augment eng...

Architecture : Design : Technology

Big Ideas

Future Forecast 2023: Fashion

From dystopian aesthetics and lab-based textile alternatives to the growth of resale platforms and monetised archives, we look ahead to fashion in ...

Fashion : Design : Sustainability

Design Directions

Pliable Playscapes

Inspired by Generation Zalpha’s productivity, an energetic and assertive visual language is emerging that reflects their can-do attitude and capaci...

Youth : Branding : Media

Big Ideas

Brand Innovation Debrief: Snap’s Retail Play

Facing stiff competition in the social media market, Snapchat’s developer is bringing its expertise in augmented reality to advertisers, online sto...

Media : Entertainment : Retail

Markets

Redesigning Higher Education Spaces

From fostering wellbeing to embracing climate consciousness and immersive tech, we explore how higher education spaces are evolving to meet the div...

Higher Education : Future Of Education : Remote Learning

Micro Trends

Neo-wealth Wears

Luxury brands are setting their sights on the crypto elite, designing accessories that allow people to flaunt their riches in the offline world.

Luxury : Cryptocurrency : Web3

Big Ideas

Speculating on the future at Dutch Design Week 2018

At this year’s show, designers positioned AI as a self-reflective tool, made technology more intuitive and devised alternative food supply chains.

Dutch Design Week : Media : AI

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