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Global Wellness Summit 2024: Progressive & Preservative Wellness

This year’s Global Wellness Summit highlighted how wellness is becoming polarised, with the drive for self-optimisation colliding with a powerful s...

Health : Wellness : Society

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Dutch Design Week 2024: Life in The Synthocene Era

At the 2024 edition of Dutch Design Week designers addressed what life might look like in The Synthocene Era, as the boundaries between human and n...

Design : Technology : Society

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TFWA 2024: Tailored for Travellers

The travel retail arena continues to see both digital and experience-led innovation, specifically in the beauty and alcohol markets. Key themes at ...

Travel : Retail : Drink

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Rebranding Resale

The fashion resale market has had a rebranding. Upscaled marketing initiatives, luxury partnerships and circularity-led retail concepts are redefin...

Retail : Sustainability : Fashion

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The Synthocene Innovators: F!nh

As we enter The Synthocene Era, LS:N Global spotlights the innovators merging human and machine intelligence. Meet F!nh, the London-based design st...

Technology : Artificial Intelligence : Design

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The Synthocene Innovators: Studio Tim Fu

As we enter the Synthocene Era, LS:N Global spotlights the innovators merging human and machine intelligence. Meet Studio Tim Fu, an architectural ...

Technology : Artificial Intelligence : Design

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Paradigms 2024: Future of Branding

Brand storytelling and the evolving definition of creativity were hot topics as well-known and emerging designers gathered in Rome to determine the...

Entertainment : Design : Creativity

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Regenerative Travel Summit 2024: Transforming Tourism Together

As the climate crisis escalates, travel and tourism leaders gathered in New York to tackle regenerative tourism, ESG frameworks and innovative clim...

Travel : Sustainability : Hospitality

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Material Matters 2024: Playful Ecology

Self-described as a ‘design version of Desert Island Discs’, Material Matters has long focused on those materials that have proven transformative f...

Design : Technology : Sustainability

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The Download: Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2025

Cutting through the chaos and overwhelming nature of fashion month, we distil the key insights from Paris Fashion Week.

Paris Fashion Week : SS 2025 Trends : Coperni

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FT Live Future of Retail 2024: Three Key Takeaways

Investing in technology was top of the agenda as brands navigate how to incorporate generative AI into their retail strategies to better consumer e...

Retail : Technology : Event

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The Synthocene Era: Far Futures

The impact of The Synthocene Era on how we work, organise, connect and find meaning in life could be profound. LS:N Global explores the far future ...

Technology : Future Of Artificial Intelligence : Climate Change

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The Download: Milan Fashion Week spring/summer 2025

Cutting through the chaos and overwhelming nature of fashion month, we distil the key insights from Milan Fashion Week.

Milan Fashion Week : Bottega Veneta : Max Mara

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The Download: London Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2025

Cutting through the chaos and overwhelming nature of fashion month, we distil the key insights from London Fashion Week.

London Fashion Week : Spring/Summer 2025 : Tolu Coker

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The Download: New York Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2025

Cutting through the chaos and overwhelming nature of fashion month, we distil the key insights from New York Fashion Week.

New York Fashion Week : Spring/Summer 2025 : Willy Chavarría

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India’s Beauty Playground

To tap into India’s booming beauty market, global and local brands are leveraging skincare-infused make-up, men’s grooming innovations and localise...

India : Beauty : Skincare

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Brand Innovation Debrief: Selfridges

Amid a global decline in department stores, Selfridges defies the trend through innovative strategies and a bold vision for the future.

Retail : Selfridges : Luxury

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X-tended Retail

Virtual stores and Web3 brand experiences have matured since the post-pandemic metaverse boom. Now, they offer more integrated e-commerce opportuni...

Retail : Pop-culture & Media : Technology

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Five Fashion Activations Taking Olympic Gold

LS:N Global curates the stand-out brand activations from the fashion and luxury industries, as seen at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics.

Paris Olympics 2024 : Luxury : Fashion

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Wellrooms in 2035

As the bathroom evolves into the wellroom, in 2035 houses could be designed to host functional spas, health data centres and sustainability eco-hub...

Future Of The Bathroom : Bathrooms : Bathroom Products

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The ideas and innovations that hint at the future of the consumer landscape