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Sustainable Fashion Market: India

Driven by glocal changemakers, India’s sustainable fashion market is growing rapidly – with a focus on circularity, heritage and innovation.

Fashion : Luxury : Sustainability

Micro Trends

Future Forecast 2025: Food & Drink

From beanless coffee and fashion-forward fast food to nutrient-packed snacks and spicy-sweet flavour fusions, food and drink innovators are redefin...

Food : Health & Wellness : Drink

Markets

Sustainable Footwear Market

Following in the footsteps of fashion, the shoe industry is embracing sustainability, not only through materials and assembly, but also through far...

Fashion : Footwear : Sustainability

Communities

Athena Woman

Career success and increased spending power are giving rise to a new breed of highly educated, affluent and entrepreneurial woman. These women exud...

Community : Fang Yuan : Courtney Sklar

Macro Trends

Homedulgence

Consumers across the globe are looking at new and innovative ways to maintain the good life they’ve come to treasure, without the expense of going ...

Home : Entertainment : Home Induglence

Communities

Diet Hackers

Consumers entering a post-functional relationship with food and drink are seeking to build resilience and find balance.

Communities : Food And Drink

Macro Trends

No-Frills Affluents

They have been one of the prime drivers in UK retailer Morrisons’ return to profit. Once driven by impulse and indulgence, they are now driven by v...

No Frills : Austerity : Value

Design Directions

Fairphone

The principle of transparency has spread to clothing, beauty and even jewellery, with companies disclosing where their products come from and how t...

Transparency : Bas Van Abel : Worker Conditions

Viewpoints

How Jewellery is leading the Circular Economy

Caroline Chalmer, CEO and founder of Finematter, discusses how the jewellery industry is changing in a digital landscape.

Luxury : Eco Design And Sustainability : Circular Economy

Macro Trends

The Dislocated World

In a world dominated by distrust, disconnection and disenfranchisement it is time for brands to take a stand and choose what type of future they wa...

The Dislocated World : Turbulent Teens : Backlash Culture

Big Ideas

Covid-19 Contingency Planning

Learn the immediate impacts of Covid-19 across key sectors, and discover best-in-class case studies and future considerations for your organisation.

Covid-19 : Society : Health

Macro Trends

Prohibition Culture

Everywhere you look, behaviour is being curbed, controlled, nudged and monitored. The ‘war on waste’ is creating a stealth tax that covers everythi...

Nudge : Control : Waste

Markets

Market report: China

For a decade the world has watched China in awe. Some did so from a distance, others leapt right in. Today, however, involvement with the country n...

China : Jigsaw International : Hong Kong

Communities

The New Value-seekers

As traditional career paths fracture and disintegrate, young people are increasingly turning to other means of making a living. Harnessing the pow...

Collaborative Economy : EatWith : Smartphones

Macro Trends

Certified Wellness

The once distinctly separate worlds of health and wellness are converging as consumers seek a new framework for healthy living that prioritises con...

Health : Wellbeing : Certified Wellness

Communities

No-Mos, Mo-Mos and Fu-Mos

From women who are hands-off parents and those who use science to delay motherhood, to those who decide they never want to have kids at all, women’...

Motherhood : Mo-Mo : No-Mo

Macro Trends

Bleisure

If you talk about the pressures of work, you are probably a Generation Joneser. And if you still believe in the work/life balance, you are one of o...

Business : Leisure : Work

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

Macro Trends

Freesumerism

As the cost of everything tends towards zero, the growing trend for Freesumerism is seeing the notion of value undergoing a major shift. Smart bran...

Free : Consumerism : Buying

Micro Trends

Mumbai Safari

Mumbai is at the epicentre of change in India. The city is brimming with people, ideas and businesses, all of which are set to prosper in an enga...

Mumbai : Whole-system Thinking : Raising The Bar

Macro Trends

The Dawn of the Mega-systems

Apple, Amazon, Alibaba, Google, Facebook and Weibo are no longer simply trading platforms. They are the mega-systems of tomorrow, within which most...

Apple : Amazon : Google

Markets

Retail report

It feels as though retailers the world over are breathing a collective sigh of relief, as the Great Depression didn’t materialise. But the sobering...

Deloitte : Recession : PIIGS

Macro Trends

Branding & Packaging Futures

As the climate changes, economies lurch, austerity bites and technology advances, consumers are expecting more from less in all things in the Turbu...

Eco : Consumption : Throw Away

Macro Trends

Functional Feasting

As we move past the ‘free from’ era, consumers are increasingly favouring products that do more with less, bringing flavour and fun back into funct...

Food & Drink : Indulgence : Health & Wellness

Markets

Bleisure Update

If you talk about the pressures of work, you are probably a Generation Joneser. And if you still believe in the work/life balance, you are one of o...

Bleisure : The Body Shop : Flexistentialists

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