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Luxury Travel Consumers

Markets

Luxury Travel Consumers

What do different demographic groups want from luxury travel?
FABs : The Flat Age Society : Bleisure
Womenomics retail: how to appeal to the fairer sex

Markets

Womenomics retail: how to appeal to the fairer sex

Sensory spaces and experiential shopping zones are increasingly a focus for retail brands and designers looking to appeal to female consumers.
Experiential : Holistic Retail : Sensory Spaces
Exertainment Market

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
Redemptive Diets

Macro Trends

Redemptive Diets

Brands and consumers are uniting to build future-fit food systems that support changing social values, protect precious resources and secure supply...
Food : Drink : Society
New York Fashion Week S/S 14

Design Directions

New York Fashion Week S/S 14

New York Fashion Week S/S 14
Colour : Kitsch : Layering
London Design Festival 2015: Design Directions

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
Milan Fashion Week A/W 14

Design Directions

Milan Fashion Week A/W 14

Travel and texture were key themes during this season’s Milan Fashion Week, with some designers collecting tropical artefacts while others opted ...
Fendi : Marni : No.21
Autumn/Winter 2017 Fashion Week: Part 1

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
Milan 2013: Part 1

Design Directions

Milan 2013: Part 1

Colour and vibrancy were prevalent at this year’s Milan’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile. Scientific processes as well as rough and ready product...
Furniture : Synthetic : Sublime Materiality
Neo-collectivism

Macro Trends

Neo-collectivism

Society is facing a mass re-organisation. United by values of empathy and community, consumers are shunning individualism in favour of alliances th...
Society : Retail : Workplace
Top 10: Design Miami/Basel 2015

Big Ideas

Top 10: Design Miami/Basel 2015

The 10th anniversary of the show reflected the rapid growth of the design market. 
Design Miami/Basel 2015 : Product Design : Art Installation
Anti-Materials

Design Directions

Anti-Materials

Conventions are shifting. A group of designers is starting new conversations and questioning the value of materials, creating a new hierarchy.
Value Redefined : Luxury : Ephemeral Materials
Re-enlightenment Rising

Macro Trends

Re-enlightenment Rising

For years people looked down on it as dull, square and best kept behind closed doors, but science is now breaking out of the laboratory – onto thea...
Enlightenment : Art : Science
Stockholm Furniture Fair 2012

Design Directions

Stockholm Furniture Fair 2012

Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair hosted a diversity of new design this year, with prevalent themes being functionality and notions of nostalgia.
Hauntology : Folk : Gotland University
Miami monumentalism

Markets

Miami monumentalism

Miami – As the dust from the crash settles and the markets readjust and recover, the frivolity of 00s art and design has run its course.
Miami : Considered Consumption : The Art Newspaper
Submerged

Design Directions

Submerged

Environmentalists’ concerns about the planet’s dwindling natural resources are inspiring radically futuristic spatial concepts, Brandstanding campa...
Submerged : Underwater : Oceanic
Sinistry

Design Directions

Sinistry

Designers are drawing inspiration from myths, theatre motifs and fables to explore the juxtaposition of darkness and light across a variety of di...
Dystopia : Theatre : Experience Deisgn
Female whisky drinkers

Markets

Female whisky drinkers

Once the older gent’s status symbol, whisky is now attracting women in their droves. Blogs and tasting clubs are introducing females to the drink’s...
Johnnie Walker : Christina Hendricks : Alwynne Gwilt
Boston Safari

Micro Trends

Boston Safari

It might not be Paris, New York or London, but Boston is still one of the most recognisable cities in the world, and is beginning to come into it...
Boston : Re-Con Man : The Convergence Economy
Food Trends

Macro Trends

Food Trends

Label-gazing, value redefined, fooducation, retro-thrift, localism and comfort binging are just a few of the many trends identified by The Future L...
Food : Local : Scarcity
Generation D

Communities

Generation D

The successors to the New Millennials, Generation Ds are the first true ‘digital natives’. Born between 1994 and 2002, Generation Ds cannot remembe...
Content : Spotify : Social Networks
Uprooted Diets

Macro Trends

Uprooted Diets

Diets are undergoing a seismic shift as threatened supply chains, shortened food miles and a demand for more positive action from brands change wha...
Food : Drinks : Uprooted Diets
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