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.

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.

Micro Trends

Resilience Branding

As the Trump administration rolls back nationwide government DEI initiatives, progressive businesses are choosing to re-affirm their commitment to inclusion by adopting new language rather than retreating from their efforts.

Design Directions

Biofabricated Futures

A revolutionary sustainability breakthrough, biofabrication is the engineering of biological products. This report explores its market evolution and future potential in transforming materials to drive commercial success.

Design Directions

Chanel Supermarket

Each season, Chanel’s Karl Lagerfeld invites the fashion world to Paris’ Grand Palais to witness his latest spectacle.

Chanel : Supermarket : Paris

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

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

Micro Trends

Life-Tickers

The latest range of watches and clocks challenge our perception of time by turning the conventional forward motion of minutes and seconds into an...

Tikker : Fredrik Colting : Bereavement

Design Directions

ICA x Dover Street Market

Google Maps is most often used to find out how to get from A to B in the shortest time. But the tool can occasionally be a gateway to serendipity, ...

Institute Of Contemporary Arts : Dover Street Market : London

Design Directions

London Fashion Week A/W14

Texture and colour played an important role this season, while other looks subtly referenced the great outdoors.

Issa : Peter Pilotto : Roksanda Ilincic

Design Directions

Gym Style

Product designers are borrowing visual cues from the world of sport and gymnasiums, creating playful pieces with a nod towards the growing fascinat...

Gymnasium : Retail : Retail Design

Micro Trends

Bauhaus Boom

Bauhaus is hard to characterise – put simply, it was an art school. But more than an art school it was a philosophy for artists who were searching ...

Bauhaus : Catherine Ince : Bauhaus: Art As Life

Design Directions

Jugofresh

Jugofresh, a Miami-based health-food retail chain, has come up with a new way to market and sell health food – think hip-hop and army fatigues rath...

Jugofresh : Health : Juice Bar

Design Directions

Stockholm Design Week 2014

New treatments for industrial materials, experimentation with texture pairings and contemporary craft were all explored at this year’s Stockholm Fu...

Örnsbergsauktionen : Nordic : Furniutre

Micro Trends

Bush Babes

This has been declared the Year of the Bush, but has the zeitgeist really swung from bare to fully there?

Cameron Diaz : Body Hair : Sex And The City

Design Directions

Alexander Wang

For his post-apocalyptic New York Fashion Week show, designer Alexander Wang challenged guests to brave the wilds of deepest Brooklyn.

Alexander Wang : New York : Brooklyn

Micro Trends

Growable Futures

Bacteria cultures, lactose proteins and biopolymers may read like science textbook terminology, but they are rapidly becoming essential design tool...

Bacteria Cultures : Lactose Proteins : Biopolymers

Design Directions

Maison et Objet 2014

Colour dominated and the mood was fresh at the spring/summer 2014 Maison et Objet design fair in Paris last month. Contemporary products and interi...

Paris : M&O : Maison Et Objet

Design Directions

Thoughtful Flow

Designers are creating abstract alternatives to in-store signage, using tonal colour to complement and highlight individual collections and guide v...

Wayfinding : Intuitive : Colour

Design Directions

Shipley & Halmos

When Shipley & Halmos decided to open its first pop-up store in conjunction with New York Fashion Week autumn/winter 2014, the contemporary heritag...

Shipley & Halmos : NYFW : Canal Street

Micro Trends

Paris Safari

Paris has a rich past, but it continually strives to be a city of the future.

The Lab Store : Nano By Ora-ïto : Huygens

Micro Trends

Raw Beauty

The beauty sector has long followed trends in the food and drink industry. First it was natural, then organic and now raw.

Raw Beauty : Natural : Detox

Micro Trends

Gym Talk

Faced with a proliferation of pop-up movements and mass participation classes, gyms are changing how they speak about fitness, becoming more pers...

Gym : Fittness : IBISWorld

Design Directions

Sneakerboy

The crowds in Paris gasped this week as the models for Chanel’s summer 2014 couture collection strode down the catwalk in, of all things,...

Sneakers : Australia : Sneakerboy