Experts & Opinion

Discover the opinions that matter and the ideas shaping our future, including on-demand webinars, videos and podcast discussions with innovative thinkers on how we can collectively shape a more positive future.

RSVP: Culture-coded Retail Online Event

Join us on 19 June 2025 for an online event introducing our new retail macro trend report.

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.

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The Wellness Reset

Energy fields, somatic sensing and spiritual technologies are resetting elite approaches to wellness, according to Carlos Urrutigoity, general manager of London club Grey Wolfe.

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Rehumanising 3D Design

Fashion designer Karina Bond talks to LS:N Global about redefining couture with a printing pen and bringing the human touch to 3D design.

Webinars

Anticipating Tomorrow On-demand Webinar

If uncertainty is a virus, then strategic foresight is the best way to inoculate your organisation against it, as we find out in this much-anticipated webinar.

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Radical healing is the future of nightlife

Aisha Mirza, the founder of sober club night Misery, explains why embedding therapy into the night-time economy is empowering marginalised communit...

Youth : LGBT : Nightlife

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Skincare minimalism

Salima Issaoui, founder of Barcelona-based Uzza Skincare, discusses how a less-is-more approach could revolutionise the skincare industry.

Beauty : Beauty Industry : Make Up

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To understand TikTok, act like one of its locals

With 60% of its users under the age of 24, brands wanting to reach this creative generation must take time to understand the nuances of the TikTok ...

Youth : Advertising : Social Media

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In future, the only luxury will be a clean conscience

Walpole CEO Helen Brocklebank discusses its recent Sustainability Manifesto, luxury brand stewardship, shared goals and a home delivery backlash.

Luxury : Sustainability : Manufacturing

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Tech brands must address the environmental emergency

The challenge for tech firms over the next decade is to make the transition from profitability to solidarity, says Andres Colmenares, co-founder of...

Digital : Sustainability : Media

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How circular retail could create new cashless economies

Fashion futurist and professor Karinna Nobbs proposes that digital retail experiences can be exchanged for unwanted physical products.

Retail : Sustainability : Circular Economy

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Hoteliers must embrace the rise of non-monogamy

Retreats for more than two will emerge as people begin to take up multiple relationships or seek connections with various partners.

Travel : Hospitality : Luxury

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How brands can reach The Next Billion Users

Digital anthropologist Payal Arora explains why the online behaviour of people in China, India, Africa and across the Global South i...

Technology : India : Internet

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How to engage the Chinese travellers of tomorrow

Will Zhuang, Chinese ambassador for VisitYork and VisitLeeds, on how brands are re-imagining British culture for a new generation of Chinese touris...

Food : Travel : Tourism

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The future of work lies beyond our city centres

Next-generation communities, workplaces and innovation can be found in our emerging economic hotspots, says Gavin Poole, CEO of Here East.

Workplace : Youth : Community

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The smell of success: scent as the future of engagement

Companies are tapping into the benefits associated with fragrance, and its potential to create emotional connections, drive productivity and boost ...

Branding : Marketing : Retail

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MyBeautyBrand is taking the hassle out of side hustles

Robin Derrick, co-founder of MyBeautyBrand, discusses his peer-driven beauty label, the importance of online communities and future collaborations...

Beauty : Peer To Peer : Retail Experience

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TikTok is the future of global marketing

Influencer marketing expert Alessandro Bogliari examines how TikTok can be used for self-expression, values-based marketing and political conversat...

Youth : Media : Technology

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Promote sustainable design thinking from the start

The founder of industrial design agency Morrama emphasises the need for greater research and scrutiny to improve future working practices.

Design : Sustainability : Material Far Futures

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Immersive VR journalism

Designers Jim Brady and Ward Goes on how virtual reality journalism will enable the public to experience and question how emphatic the news really is.

Technology : Media : Alternative News

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Inside Generation Z’s identity crisis

UAL students Nicole Angus and Nadine Gan, 21, and graduate Lucas Antunes, 23, discuss why cynicism, truth and self-education define today’s youth.

Youth : Generation Z : Media

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Diving into Lush’s phygital experiments

Charlotte Nisbet talks about the brand’s phygital retail experiments, from packaging-free stores and recyclable shop fit-outs to machine learning r...

Retail : Beauty : Technology

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Forget mental health, let’s discuss emotional fitness

Nick Bennett, CEO and co-founder of Fika, on the student mental health crisis being an issue of education and skills relating to emotional wellbeing.

Youth : Mental Health : Technology

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The dawn of the emo-algorithm

Neuroscientist-turned-designer Vera van der Burg attempts to eradicate AI bias by training machines to prioritise human emotions over our data sets.

Artificial Intelligence : Technology : Design

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The human-less future of creative branding

Yali Saar, founder and CEO of Tailor Brands, discusses the positive impact that AI will have on the future of branding, copywriting and social mark...

Branding : Design : Artificial Intelligence