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Design Directions

132 5 Issey Miyake

Taking the Super-Minimalist approach to design to its logical conclusion, each of the garments in Issey Miyake’s 132 5 collection unfold ...

Craft : Reality Lab : 132 5 Collection

Design Directions

Tutti a Tavola!

What makes a kitchen? To some it’s the preparation of food, experimenting with flavours and hovering over a hot stove. For others it’s a place for ...

Milan : Performing Arts : Tutti A Tavola!

Micro Trends

Sweden's sourdough men

Tired of ready meals and prepackaged food, a group of Swedish men has turned to the art of baking sourdough bread. This ancient baking technique al...

Sourdough : Bread : Baking

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

Trend Tracker

Awakening Tech

Identified by LS:N Global in 2014, the Awakening Tech macrotrend explored how consumers are negotiating their identities in a digital world and h...

Sensor Technologies : Affective Computing : Living Architecture

Markets

China Market

China has largest number of online shoppers on the planet, and is set to become the world’s biggest economy within the next 10–20 years. Domestic c...

China : National Bureau Of Statistics : McKinsey

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

Big Ideas

Brand Innovation Debrief: Refy

By blending minimalist innovation, community-driven marketing and immersive brand experiences, viral beauty brand Refy is proving it’s here to stay.

Refy : Beauty : TikTok

Big Ideas

Future Five 2025: Longevity

With global spending on wellness spiralling upwards, we spotlight the need to eradicate the historic gender health gap while addressing trends such...

Health : Wellness : Science

Big Ideas

Future Five 2025: Future Spaces

We explore how wellbeing, sustainability and technology will all be key in creating adaptable, people-centric and future-proof spaces that allow co...

Design : Future Spaces : Architecture

Big Ideas

Dutch Design Week 2024: Life in The Synthocene Era

At the 2024 edition of Dutch Design Week designers addressed what life might look like in The Synthocene Era, as the boundaries between human and n...

Design : Technology : Society

Viewpoints

The Future of Women’s Health

Dr Somi Javaid, founder and chief medical officer of HerMD, tells LS:N Global how its clinics can help fix a broken healthcare system and close the...

Women's Health : HerMD : Preventative Healthcare

Micro Trends

Future Forecast 2024: Beauty

Trends in the beauty sector are being turbocharged by TikTok, creating a large pool of consumers for whom the line between their real and filtered ...

Beauty : Future Forecast : Reports

Big Ideas

Decolonising Data Privacy

To earn and retain consumers’ trust via ethical data handling strategies, businesses can learn from Indigenous cultures prioritising data consent, ...

Data Protection : Technology : Decolonisation

Micro Trends

Regenerative Luxury Jewels

Thanks to advances in materials and manufacturing, the jewellery industry is entering a new era of sustainability.

Luxury : Sustainability : Fashion

Viewpoints

Future-ready Retail

Retail designer, futurist and author of Future Ready Retail, Ibrahim Ibrahim, is on a mission to reboot physical retail in the face of a ‘cost of d...

Retail : Design : Society

Big Ideas

Future Forecast 2023: Media & Technology

From the Betterverse to the dawn of the AI revolution, we select five key directions for 2023 in the media and technology sector.

Technology : Media & Entertainment : Youth

Markets

State of Luxury: South Korea

With rising wealth and digital fluency in its younger demographics, South Korea is well positioned as one of Asia’s most exciting and innovative gr...

Luxury : Fashion : Art

Markets

Food Austerity Innovators

Global events are causing widespread disruption to the food sector, with innovators and start-ups helping to assuage rising prices and abating supp...

Food : Drink : Society

Markets

Fashion Rental Market

Fashion rental services are evolving to benefit brands and consumers, providing new revenue streams, peer-led style inspiration and convenience.

Fashion

Markets

Modern Meditation Market

Meditation is being reframed as an accessible activity, with Covid-19 having accelerated its engagement and normalised the adoption of daily rituals.

Meditation : Wellbeing : Wellness

Markets

Emerging Youth: Australia

Faced with one crisis after another, Australia’s youth are using digital platforms to reflect on their identities, educate their peers and satirise...

Youth : Australia : Covid-19

Markets

Fashion Recommerce

Fuelled by Generation Z spending power and the circular economy, the market for reselling fashion is on the rise.

Fashion : Resell : Luxury Brands

Design Directions

Edhv: Multidisciplinary design studio

Design : Dutch Invertuals : Oxidisation

Design Directions

Device 6

Video games as film? Certainly. Video games as art? Maybe. Video games as literature? The idea seems ridiculous. Yet that is what Swedish...

Iphone : Device 6 : Simogo

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