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Micro Trends

Comfort Cuvées

Forward-thinking vintners are swapping esotericism for accessible pairings, sustainable packaging and a ‘deluxified’ approach to wine, ushering in ...

Big Ideas

SXSW 2024 Debrief: A Transformative Era

Abundant innovation is on the horizon, but individuals face the challenge of adapting to rapid change. As SXSW showcases pioneers eager to advance,...

Technology : Marketing : Media

Markets

Spirits Innovations

From glassless packaging to raicilla, sotol and aquavit, we are likely to see a variety of innovations in the spirits market in 2024 as it weathers...

Sustainability : Food & Drink : Technology

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

Markets

Second-life Bridal Market

As a historically unsustainable category, the wedding sector is ushering in greener options to cater for brides’ increasingly eco-conscious mindsets.

Retail : Weddings : Bridal

Micro Trends

Flower Therapy

With consumers turning to the natural world as a wellbeing resource, brands are exploring the benefits of one of its key elements – flowers.

Health : Wellness : Beauty

Micro Trends

New Sportswomen Media

With mainstream sports platforms largely unrepresentative, there is growing demand for online networks and reportage focused on women athletes.

Health And Wellness : Sports : Women's Health

Design Directions

Autumn/Winter 2017 Fashion Week: Part 2

In the second part of our autumn/winter 2017 design directions report, LS:N Global examines the changing notions of femininity and the continuing f...

The Dislocated World : Prada : AW 17

Design Directions

Autumn/Winter 2017 Fashion Week: Part 1

This season, designers challenged traditional notions of luxury and collaborated with nostalgia-evoking brands. LS:N Global outlines the key design...

Autumn Winter 2017 : MM6 Maison Margiela : Subversive Luxury

Big Ideas

Dutch Design Week 2015 Review

True to form, the participants of Dutch Design Week 2015 set out to shake up the status quo. Bold exhibitions by the Design Academy Eindhoven gradu...

Dutch Design Week 2015 : Design Academy Eindhoven : New Bricolage Living

Markets

Interface Market

In the era of Awakening Tech our devices’ interfaces are set to become more human.

Interface : Interface Design : Haptics

Design Directions

Autumn/winter 2015 Fashion Week directions: Part 1

From the genderless collections of New York Fashion Week to neo-elegance on Parisian catwalks, the past month was a showcase of innovation and cr...

Post-Faith : Gareth Pugh : Anrealage

Design Directions

Maja Flink: Photography

‘Most of my portraits have a calmness and a specific atmosphere,’ says photographer Maja Flink. ‘When I receive a brief people ask specifically for...

Photography : People : Portraits

Markets

Beauty report

As the world changes after the recession and we enter the New Normal age of the topsy-turvy Turbulent Teens, thankfully some things remain the same...

Turbulent Teens : Lipstick Effect : Selfridges

Macro Trends

Leanomics

In a world of über choice and information overload, we are witnessing the emergence of brand filtering and pause culture, and the growth of ‘thick ...

Lean : Nega-choice : Mega-choice

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

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