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Design Directions

Global Change Award

H&M’s non-profit-making Conscious Foundation aims to close the loop for fashion through its Global Change Award.

Big Ideas

Decoded Fashion: New York Summit 2014

The worlds of fashion and technology are overlapping like never before, but the details of the merger are not yet clear. The Decoded Fashion: New...

Wearable Technology : Retail Futures : Decoded Fashion

Markets

Restaurant Tech

Savvy restaurateurs are waking up to wider advances in technology and are harnessing IT to deliver better dining experiences.The restaurant indus...

Restaurants : Technology : Grillshack

Design Directions

Dunhill Homes

In London, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong, Dunhill’s Homes surround customers with art, culture and a host of lifestyle services. A retail propositi...

London : Maisons : Homes

Big Ideas

Future Five 2025: Sustainability

We emphasise the need for brands to up the ante in their climate activism, creating tangible positive change in the fashion and luxury industries r...

Sustainability : Travel & Hospitality : Society

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

Micro Trends

Decolonised Cowboy Core

From music to the catwalk and cinema screens, Black and Indigenous artists are finding inspiration in their cowboy heritage like never before, adva...

Pop Culture : Fashion : Media

Markets

Next-Gen Hair Accessories

Between AI, rentals and banana fibres, innovative Black-owned businesses are weaving a dynamic future for the wigs and hair extensions market.

Wig : Natural Hair : Haircare

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

Gen Z Parenting Market

No longer the epitome of youth culture, members of Generation Z are having kids of their own, driving the parenting sector in unexpected new direct...

Gen Z : Fashion : Youth

Viewpoints

Designing for the future’s Equilibrium Cities

The Future Laboratory and creative network Dutch Invertuals are exploring how design can foster Equilibrium Cities – urban zones where collective o...

Design : Sustainability : Creatives

Viewpoints

The future of fashion is… farming?

Allbirds’ head of sustainability, Hana Kajimura, says it’s time for the industry to reduce carbon impacts through collaborative, regenerative pract...

Fashion : Sustainability : Manufacturing

Markets

Exertainment Market

As consumers look for new ways to inject fun into fitness, brands are introducing a range of platforms and services that combine entertainment and ...

Fitness : Entertainment : Wellness

Daily Signals

The Netflix of furniture and tracking diamonds using blockchain

Kamarq’s furniture subscription, Universal Standard re-evaluates its size chart, Superimpose Studio exchanges Emoticash for data.

Retail : Fashion : Fintech

Trend Tracker

Gen Viz

In 2016, LS:N Global coined the term Gen Viz to describe Generation D’s insatiable appetite for visual-first content, their hacker tendencies, DIY ...

Gen Viz : Teenagers : Generation D

Design Directions

The Line

London’s first contemporary art walk offers a new way for people to experience the urban environment.

Art Rambling : The Line : Culture

Markets

Virtual Reality Market

As technology catches up with fantasy, virtual reality is emerging as the next big computing platform.

Virtual Reality : Oculus Rift : Samsung

Design Directions

London Collections: Men AW14

Boundaries were pushed this year during London Collections: Men as designers waved goodbye to the dandy and metrosexual. Some collections embraced...

Menswear : Kitsch : Neo Kitsch

Big Ideas

Retail Analysis: Louis Vuitton opens exclusive Shanghai Maison for Chinese super-rich

Louis Vuitton : Shanghai : Maison

Markets

Craft Beer Market: US

A controversial shift from bottles to cans is part of a strategy to further fuel increases in sales of craft beers in a falling market.

Microbrews : Craft Beer : Cans

Big Ideas

CES preview

This year’s Consumer Electronics Show is set to give a clearer understanding of how consumers will use and interact with technology, from e-readers...

CES : 2010 : E-reader

Communities

Party-totallers

Tired of a culture that normalises inebriation and places alcohol at the centre of every event, Party-totallers are shunning the shots, beer and ...

Party-totallers : The Optimised Self : Non-alcoholic

Markets

Geo-marketing

As location becomes more important in social networking, a window is opening for brands to engage with consumers based on where they are. Prepare t...

Geo-fencing : Geo-tagging : LBS

Viewpoints

How fashion NFTs can spark eco-action

Brad Morris, founder of digital fashion house MYAMI, shares how NFTs can be used as virtual tools for prompting environmental action.

Fashion : Metaverse : Climate

Macro Trends

Symbiotic Branding

Collaboration used to be optional for brands that want to create buzz or a one-off product range. Now it is a rule not the exception, as brand-jack...

Symbiosis : Branding : Collaboration

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