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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

Accredited Beauty

As consumers seek proof points on product quality, efficacy and sustainability, scientific evidence will drive the healthification of the beauty in...

Beauty : Health : Wellness

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

Communities

Deprogrammers

Rejecting traditional education, this global youth community are using digital platforms, virtual tools and DIY content to educate, teach and liber...

Youth. : Youth : Media

Macro Trends

Elastic Brands

Forget advertising campaigns and branded content. All eyes are on the inner workings of your business – and how seamlessly it can adapt.

Society : Branding : Retail

Big Ideas

Milan matters

Milan Design Week reflects consumer thinking, showcases innovative ideas and agenda-setting philosophies, and is an exhibition about the direction ...

Lifecycle : Kiki Van Eijk : Lights

Big Ideas

Graduate Fashion Week 2009

London’s annual Graduate Fashion Week, a showcase of the best BA graduate fashion design talent in the UK, is the place to look for emerging Britis...

Fashion : Mehmet Ali : Lynsey O'Sullivan

Macro Trends

Alphalux

In the wake of an economic downturn, the luxury industry has experienced a shock from falling sales and consumer confidence. Moving forward, it mus...

Heritage : Austerity : Brand Quietness

Macro Trends

The E-motional Economy

A new wave of sophisticated emodiversity is ushering in an era in which people are increasingly obsessed with how everything makes them feel.

Empathy : Artificial Emotional Intelligence : Mood Manipulation

Macro Trends

Five States of Luxury 2021

A fresh update to The Future Laboratory’s proprietary framework examining people’s emotional and psychological journeys through the luxury sector.

Luxury : Travel : Hospitality

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