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Markets

Luxury market

As the bling bubble bursts and the dust settles on the recession, the luxury market is waking up to a new world order in the Turbulent Teens.

LVMH : Luxury Lifestyle Matrix : Bain & Company

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

Detty December’s Cultural Capital

Beyond music and parties, end-of-year festivities in Nigeria and Ghana represent a new model for cultural tourism that strengthens diasporic bonds ...

Travel & Hospitality : Youth : Detty December

Micro Trends

She is Mother

Talented women over 60 are finally getting their flowers and making more money than in their 20s in Hollywood, in modelling and on TikTok.

Society : Media & Entertainment : Youth

Big Ideas

House Vision 2016

A series of cross-industry collaborations and talks at Tokyo’s second House Vision exhibition examined the future of the home and the nature of the...

House Vision : Tokyo : Urbanism

Big Ideas

Design Miami/ 2015: Part 2

In Part 2 of our 2015 Design Miami/ overview we explore the offsite and satellite events that made an impact during the show.

Art Basel : Luxury Design : Convergence

Communities

Netstalgics

We’ve been immersed in the internet for so long that we have developed a sense of nostalgia for how it used to look. Early visions of the world wid...

Internet : 90s : Social Networks

Big Ideas

NYCXDESIGN 2016: Review

NYCxDesign continues to grow, with new venues popping up throughout the city and two weeks worth of events.

NYCxDesign : Whole-system Thinking : Design

Design Directions

Nokia Craft Exhibition

The project: Nokia Craft Exhibition The instigators: Lianne Mallett and Laura Perryman The innovation: Experimenting with craft for future produc...

Design : Lianne Mallett : Experimenting

Micro Trends

Future Forecast 2025: Travel & Hospitality

Global macro-shifts are driving the key travel and hospitality foresight trends for 2025. The climate crisis, a loneliness epidemic, the geopolitic...

Travel & Hospitality : Sustainability : Health & Wellness

Big Ideas

Rebranding Resale

The fashion resale market has had a rebranding. Upscaled marketing initiatives, luxury partnerships and circularity-led retail concepts are redefin...

Retail : Sustainability : Fashion

Micro Trends

Crypto-and-Mortar

With more consumers investing in virtual assets, bricks-and-mortar retailers are exploring ways to market and sell NFTs in physical shopping spaces.

Retail : Media : NFTs

Trend Tracker

Rurban Revolution

Identified by LS:N Global in 2010, Rurban = rural + urban. City dwellers are rejecting the impersonal bigness of globalisation and corporations, ...

Urban : Local : Growing

Macro Trends

Uncoupled Living

Being in a couple is becoming a less prevalent way to structure society, as more adults embrace the single life.

Family : Culture : Lifestyle

Big Ideas

LDF Review

As the last designers clear up their exhibitions in their respective design districts, the eighth London Design Festival in Europe’s creative capit...

David Weatherhead : LDF : Asif Khan

Markets

Tattoo Tourism Market

With tattoos reaching mainstream status, hotel groups are offering tattoo happy hours, local artist packages and educational inking sessions.

Tattoos : Travel & Hospitality : Body Art

Markets

Gastro Gaming Market

Joining forces with video game publishers, food and drink brands are turning to gaming to offer tastes, skins and experiences that are transcending...

Food & Drink : Gaming : Food

Micro Trends

Future Forecast 2024: Retail

Retail is settling into a post-Covid landscape in which consumers frequently welcome brands into their homes, exploring products, consuming content...

Retail : Luxury : Fashion

Viewpoints

Why Brands Must Reclaim Decision-Making 

Digital anthropologist Matt Klein tells LS:N Global why we’re losing our ability to make decisions – and how rejecting curation, embracing happenst...

Pop-culture & Media : Retail : Advertising & Branding

Design Directions

Charlotte Audrey: Designer and Art Director

MTV : Tumblr Art : Inforgraphics

Micro Trends

Salon Confidantes

Salon spaces and staff training are evolving the meaning of ‘beauty therapy’ as trust, client safety and their wellbeing become integral to salon s...

Beauty : Wellness : Community

Micro Trends

Barter Brands

Inter-Covid, bartering is gathering pace, giving retail brands a chance to explore systems where customers trade items for access to their goods or...

Retail : Society : Payments

Daily Signals

Today’s headlines, including the Louvre Abu Dhabi invites cultural tourism

In today’s daily digest: Mental Work Factory shows brain-controlled interfaces, make-up on sale on Spotify, AI drives sales on Singles’ Day, and ot...

Beauty : Travel : Luxury

Big Ideas

London Design Festival Preview

The London Design Festival marks its tenth anniversary on 14 September. This year, many designers have migrated to different areas of the city, alt...

Shaw & Skerm : Tokyo Bikes : Shoreditch Design Triangle

Markets

The Luxury Matrix Stage Three : Emotion and experience

What we said: ‘At this stage, customers are less concerned with brand and value, and more with the uniqueness of the experience on offer and the em...

Emotion : Experience : Instant Inspiration Retail

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