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Halal beauty

Halal cosmetics is a fast-growing market in the beauty industry and is set to become a dominant sector over the coming decade.

Design Directions

G-Star RAW For The Oceans

In a world increasingly concerned about ecological collapse, many luxury brands tout their sustainable credentials. Often, however, this feels like...

G-Star Raw : RAW For The Oceans : Pharrell Williams

Markets

JWT Austerity Index

Five years of recession have changed British consumer lifestyles. The JWT Austerity Index helps brands navigate this altered landscape.

Grey Pound : Over-60s : Over 60s

Big Ideas

Cannes Lions 2013 Report: Part 1

Cannes – When rapper Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs appeared at the world’s most prestigious advertising festival last week to discuss his new music platf...

Advertising : Dove : IBM

Big Ideas

World Retail Congress 2012: store format trends

London – Retailers are embracing omni-channel and this will have a significant impact on store formats, as retail footprints and environments ...

Interactive : WRC : House Of Fraser

Big Ideas

ITB Berlin 2025: Six Trends to Watch

From the rise of the Indian traveller to the influence of TikTok on destination discovery, LS:N Global explores the key trends from ITB Berlin 2025.

Travel & Hospitality : ITB Berlin 2025 : Gen Z

Markets

Third Space Retail

Brands are reshaping stores into branded third-space hubs, providing sanctuaries for creativity, community and culture.

Retail : Third Spaces : Community

Big Ideas

VivaTech 2024: Accessibility, Climate Tech and AI in Healthcare

AI took centre stage once again at the ever-growing Parisian start-up and tech summit VivaTech with ground-breaking advances in climate, health and...

Technology : Artificial Intelligence : VivaTech

Micro Trends

Future Five: Identities

As part of our Future Five 2024 report, we explore the shifts in identity that are all-important in understanding the consumer of tomorrow.

Identities : Future Five : Topics

Markets

Brewing Coffee Futures

The wellbeing and carbon footprint concerns of Conscious Consumers are pushing innovative coffee brands to shift their focus on quality, sustainabi...

Coffee : Coffee Plus : Coffee Shop

Viewpoints

Why Africa is the next hub for youth retail

What does it mean to be young and African today? The co-founder of modern African lifestyle platform Dola, Yannick Do, unpacks the vast opportuniti...

Youth : Media & Entertainment : Lifestyle

Markets

Extraterrestrial Innovations Market

Once the preserve of sci-fi narratives and super-rich escapism, brands are now recognising the potential for space to be used as a testbed for inno...

Space : Innovation : Health And Wellness

Design Directions

Dutch Design Week 2016: Design Directions

At this year’s event, bold aesthetic treatments weredictated by challenging visions of the future, from technological utopias to alternativerealities.

Dutch Design Week 2016

Design Directions

London Design Festival 2015: Design Directions

A dark and esoteric mood was in evidence this year, marked by the use of primordial materials, violent processes and optical effects that challen...

London Design Festival 2015 : Fredrikson Stallard : Shelley James

Design Directions

Iconoclash

Designers and creatives alike are rejecting established notions of luxury by employing a tongue in-cheek fetishist approach to popular culture.

Modern Luxury : Pop Culture : Iconography

Design Directions

Paris Womenswear S/S 2013

The spring/summer 2013 collections in Paris saw the reinvention of ostentatious 1980s looks, a continuation of futuristic textiles and the introduc...

The New Sublimity : Jensen : McCartney

Big Ideas

Milan Preview

As the Salone Internazionale del Mobile reaches its 51st year, LS:N Global expects the fair to continue to offer a fresh perspective on relationshi...

Salone Internazionale Del Mobile : Tom Dixon : Studio Toogood

Macro Trends

Anarconomy Decade

Something is stirring. In Egypt, a people’s revolt has overthrown a long-standing oppressor. In Bahrain, thousands of people continue to protest in...

Anarchy : Economy : Counter-intuitive

Big Ideas

Stockholm Furniture Fair

There was a convivial atmosphere at the Stockholm Furniture Fair in February. Designers engaged with consumers through their DIY, flatpack and unfo...

Convivial : Åker Collective : Steneby

Communities

Generation Jones

Children of the bust-and-boom Thatcher and Reagan years, Generation Jonesers see themselves as committed, competitive, and slightly conservative in...

&Co : DeLonghi : Gaggia

Design Directions

Playscapes

The blur between fantasy, reality, adulthood and childhood is inspiring brand communications that truly enchant, surprise and engage. Designers are...

Fantatsy : Faction Marketing : Cartoon

Micro Trends

Future Five: Sustainability

As part of our Future Five 2024 report, we explore three directions brands and business should heed as we strive for a more sustainable future.

Sustainability : Technology : Fashion

Communities

Ascetic Luxurians

High-minded individuals seeking meaning and fulfilment, Ascetic Luxurians are a privileged set who shun the brand fetishisation and buy-it-all thin...

London : Sydney : New York

Markets

Men's Grooming Market

Men’s grooming is where the big growth is to be found. Smart beauty brands are targeting a sector that has continued to out-perform the women’s bea...

China : Prestige : Gadgets

Macro Trends

Beyond Retail

Over the past 10 years, we have seen the growth of online retail and the pop-up store. The coming decade will see them evolve into new immersive sp...

Value-nomics : Pop-up : Experience

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