Trends

The latest global consumer trends that we’re tracking across sectors, substantiated by expert opinions and the latest industry statistics.

What’s New on LS:N Global?

From shifting definitions of value to TikTok-fuelled commerce and hormone health retreats, our analysts unpack what’s new and next on LS:N Global.

Micro Trends

The New Creatorverse

Content creators are evolving into multimedia powerhouses, building immersive IP eco-systems, retail ventures and employee-driven content to secure longevity and bypass tech gatekeepers in a saturated market.

Micro Trends

Deep Sea Wellness

Beauty and wellness brands are tapping into powerful deep sea ingredients with the potential to redefine skincare, hydration and sun protection.

Macro Trends

New Codes of Value

In this new era of scarcity, richness is expressed through rituals, and abundance is found in regenerative pursuits and deeper connections. New codes of value are emerging around connection, care and human flourishing.

Macro Trends

The Synthocene Era

As AI redefines our understanding of intelligence, we begin to enter The Synthocene Era, an age in which the lines between what is natural and what is artificial are increasingly blurred – driving humanity into a future when technology will redefine what it means to be human.

Design Directions

Layered Realities

A new wave of designers is bridging the virtual chaos of gaming realms and extended reality with the tactile authenticity of human craft.

Design : Technology : Artifical Intelligence

Micro Trends

Luxury Listening Rooms

Luxury brands are staging listening experiences that resonate on an emotional, sensorial and cultural level. These sonic activations operate as com...

Luxury : Retail : Design

Micro Trends

Women’s Sports Economy

Women’s sport is building its own economy, culture and fandom – driven by female founders not afraid to play by their own rules.

Sports & Leisure : Fashion : Advertising & Branding

Design Directions

Desert Dreams

In Saudi Arabia, desert landscapes are fast becoming catalysts for architectural reinvention. AI-powered digital twin technology, monumental gaming...

Design : Architecture : Technology

Macro Trends

Innovation Debrief 2025–2026

With eyes on 2025–2026, our annual report delves into 50 signals emerging from the margins.

Technology : Design : Foresight

Micro Trends

Innovation Debrief 2025: Nature’s New Language

As the climate crisis intensifies, innovators are using design, data and sensory storytelling to give nature a voice. From glowing rivers to talkin...

Design : Sustainability : Technology

Micro Trends

Innovation Debrief 2025: Certified in Space

Tested in space' is fast becoming the ultimate badge of innovation – a signal of exceptional quality and in-house expertise. If a product can survi...

Luxury : Food & Drink : Fashion

Micro Trends

Innovation Debrief 2025: Mischief Marketing

Roasting competitors in public? Serving kegs to pregnant women? To cut through the noise, marketers are leaning into ‘doing the wrong thing’ to sho...

Advertising & Branding : Food & Drink : Pop-culture & Media

Micro Trends

Innovation Debrief 2025: The New Age of Discovery

Where can consumers still find newness amid algorithm fatigue, ad blockers and saturated content platforms? Part of the answer lies in gatekeeping ...

Technology : Pop-culture & Media : Retail

Micro Trends

Innovation Debrief 2025: Craftsmanship Safeguards

As forecast in our Luxury Recrafted and New Codes of Luxury macrotrend reports, brands are becoming taste-makers and patrons of the arts by investi...

Luxury : Fashion : Design

Micro Trends

Innovation Debrief 2025: Automated Accessibility

Although calls to defund diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives across the US are growing louder, tech innovators continue to develop cu...

Beauty : Technology : Wearables

Micro Trends

Innovation Debrief 2025: Sober Socials

Amid digital overload, consumers are seeking moments of connection away from the internet. But for many, sobriety, connection and affordability are...

Society : Sports & Leisure : Youth

Micro Trends

Innovation Debrief 2025: Collagen’s New Frontiers

Growing alongside collagen’s strong foothold in the beauty, health and supplements categories, a new wave of collagen-infused products is making a ...

Food & Drink : Beauty : Health & Wellness

Micro Trends

Innovation Debrief 2025: Resilient Appetites

In our Adaptive Appetites macrotrend report, we forecast that climate change and resource scarcity would drive the food and drink industry to re-in...

Technology : Food & Drink : Luxury

Micro Trends

Innovation Debrief 2025: The Augmented Human

We’ve entered The Synthocene Era, a new chapter in which human intelligence is enhanced, not replaced, by machine intelligence. The next frontier i...

Technology : Health & Wellness : Fashion

Micro Trends

Masculinity Reset Retreats

The wellness industry is shedding old stereotypes through men’s mental wellbeing retreats that reframe masculinity around mindfulness, movement and...

Health & Wellness : Society : Travel & Hospitality

Micro Trends

Repair Renaissance

Retail spaces are transforming into skill-sharing hubs, embedding circularity through community-led repair workshops.

Fashion : Sustainability : Luxury

Micro Trends

EQ-Beauty

AI is redefining personalised beauty, shifting from data-driven logic to emotionally intelligent tools that bring empathy, intuition and expert car...

Beauty : Technology : AI

Micro Trends

Soft Sports

Brands are leaning into a softer approach to sports that prioritises ritual, community and holistic wellbeing over performance culture.

Sports & Leisure : Society : Health & Wellness

Macro Trends

Culture-coded Retail

Digital commerce may offer consumers convenience, but a new generation of in-person retail experiences energised by cultural relevance and built on...

Retail : Culture : Technology