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Design Directions

Divergent Design

Designers are reframing the narrative surrounding neurodiversity from disability to hyperability through rich visual noise and joyful stimulation.

Design : Intersectionality : Health And Wellness

Communities

The Value Vanguard

Meet the consumers redefining value through imperfect sustainability, emotional spending and radical pragmatism, offering brands a glimpse into the...

Value : Finance : Society

Macro Trends

Guilded Luxury

As the world enters a period of economic downturn, luxury brands are seizing strategies to build long-lasting and enriching relationships with thei...

Luxury : Travel : Hospitality

Big Ideas

London Design Festival 2013: 10 of the best

The 11th London Design festival offered a wave of new products, experiences and exhibitions from emerging designers, as well as established brands....

Established & Sons : Philippe Malouin : Silo Studio

Micro Trends

Seoul Safari

Seoul boasts a world-leading tech community while celebrating traditional values and national identity.

Tesco : Shin Yeon : Bean Table

Macro Trends

Re-enlightenment Rising

For years people looked down on it as dull, square and best kept behind closed doors, but science is now breaking out of the laboratory – onto thea...

Enlightenment : Art : Science

Big Ideas

Revolutionising Beauty for Climate Change

A new climate-adapted beauty paradigm is under way. It is embracing adaptation instead of inclusivity, and is one in which dirt, sweat and bacteria...

Beauty : Wellness : Sustainability

Big Ideas

Milan 2013: Ones to Watch

The Salone Internazionale del Mobile, one of the largest and most celebrated design shows in the world, is a hotbed of emerging design talent. LS:N...

Design : Review : Synaesthesia

Big Ideas

New York: Fashion talent to watch

LS:N Global identifies the designers to note in New York for spring/summer 2013. The two clear styles to emerge are clashing prints, fabrics and co...

New York : Shirtdress : Drawstring Shorts

Macro Trends

Gen X Now and Next: From Ambiguity to Advocacy

Having long lived in the shadow of Baby Boomers and Millennials, Gen X are racing against time to make their influence felt, while juggling their c...

Generations : Gen X : Demographics

Big Ideas

BoF Voices 2023: The Creative Crossroads

At The Business of Fashion’s Voices 2023 conference, the focus was on creative resilience, ethical and sustainable innovation, and how AI is reshap...

Luxury : Fashion : Beauty

Markets

The food space revolution

Beyond the downturn, food will continue to viewed as a design-driven cultural experience as much as a nutritionally based culinary one. As our Food...

The Foodists : ABC Cooking Studio : Tokyo Curry Lab

Design Directions

Rapha

On Wednesday afternoon, a pack of 24 cyclists descended on a country pub in Oxfordshire. To most passers-by it looked like a group of keen cyclists...

Heritage : Video Content : Biking

Macro Trends

New Bricolage Living

Identity used to be something that you were born with. Age, race, gender and nationality were firmly fixed and determined your place in the world....

Third-stage Globalisation : Life-lodging : Connectivity

Macro Trends

Revelation Brands

The digital revolution promised to save us time, but instead we are busier than ever. It promised to broaden our horizons, but left us trapped in a...

Discovery : Chance : Serendipity

Futures 100

Futures 100 Innovators: September

The penultimate instalment of the Futures 100 Innovators spotlights a new generation of beauty scientists, value-driven luxury marketers and indepe...

Futures100 Innovators : F100 : Health & Wellness

Macro Trends

Backlash Brands

In an age of constant consumer backlash, bold brands are choosing to stand their ground rather than bow to every customer whim, staging a reactio...

Backlash Brands : Controversy-courting : Righteous Retail

Futures 100

Futures 100 Innovators: August

In the ninth longlist of our 2023 Futures 100 Innovators, we reveal The Future Laboratory’s chosen innovators and change-makers who are set to disr...

Futures100 Innovators

Big Ideas

London Design Festival: the ones to watch

The seventh London Design Festival ran from 19-27 September and its mix of commissioned installations, exhibitions and shows proved recession-proof...

Furniture : 2009 : Philippe Malouin

Markets

Guochao Wellness

The Chinese luxury wellness sector has shifted gears by embracing the ‘national trend’ of Guochao, offering authentic cultural experiences and C-be...

China : Guochao : Luxury

Markets

Web3 Music Market

In a bid to reform its fractured systems, the music industry is embracing the Web3 space to empower musicians, digital communities and real-life fans.

Music : Web3 : NFTs

Viewpoints

Fashion rental’s future is locally peer-to-peer

Jen Charon, co-founder of Loanhood, explains why local communities and peer-to-peer interactions will drive the future of fashion rental.

Fashion : Retail : Sustainability

Macro Trends

Pleasure Revolution

With every second of our free time colonised by the cult of busyness, future consumers will turn away from a life of relentless productivity and sh...

Leisure : Workplace : Wellness

Macro Trends

Boomers Now and Next: From Ageing to Becoming

There is an upcoming milestone in the Boomers’ generational journey. By 2030 they will all have reached the average Western retirement age of 65, s...

Generations : Boomers : Demographics

Design Directions

Botanica

In Botanica we explore the current fascination with plant life and how nature is being harnessed and manipulated to create hyper-natural environmen...

Patrick Morris : Gernot Riether : Botanical

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