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The future of luxury lies in escapism

Author and analyst Erwan Rambourg is positively bullish about what lies ahead for the sector, sharing insights from his latest book, Future Luxe.

Luxury : Travel : Health & Wellness

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Fashion rental’s future is locally peer-to-peer

Jen Charon, co-founder of Loanhood, explains why local communities and peer-to-peer interactions will drive the future of fashion rental.

Fashion : Retail : Sustainability

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Why brandsplaining is retail’s new battleground

Brands continue to market to women using sneaky sexism and corporate feminism tactics, say Jane Cunningham and Philippa Roberts, co-authors of new ...

Advertising : Retail : Society

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We must re-centre wellness on POC experiences

Poonam Dhuffer, founder of self-awareness platform YSM8, says it’s time for the wellness to re-centre on Black, brown and POC practices and lived e...

Health & Wellness : Intersectionality : Society

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Total bodycare blurs the lines of wellness

Sean Moran, the founder of EauLab, shares his vision for a 360-degree wellness brand that delivers physical, mental and emotional health via hydrat...

Wellness : Drink : Self-care

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Redesigning the retro future of online groceries

Jono Holt, founder of design agency Otherway, examines the use of nostalgia, colour, storytelling and locality in its brand refresh for grocery del...

Branding : Food : Retail

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Building hotels that uplift Black culture

The co-founder and chief innovation officer of Homage, a growing US hotel chain, are centring the Black hospitality experience on rest, healing and...

Hospitality : Leisure : Music

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Generation Z are ready to reboot dating

Marc Baghadjian, co-founder of Gen Z dating app Lolly, on how post-pandemic connections will be defined by video crushes and non-committal mindsets.

Youth : Dating : Social Media

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Will NFT luxury assets transform consumer values?

Artist Sebastian ErraZuriz and his studio have created Digital Diamonds, the world’s first crypto gems. But are luxurians ready for a future of int...

Luxury : Technology : NFTs

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It’s time sexual wellness got real

The most interesting part of sexual wellness R&D is how it’s helping us to better understand human sexuality through an intersectional lens, writes...

Health & Wellness : Seuxal Wellness : Intersectionality

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Brynn Wallner on future-proofing luxury marketing

The founder of Dimepiece, a platform educating women about luxury watches, says brands are failing to promote luxury as an investment.

Luxury : Youth : Branding

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How NFTs could elevate brand loyalty

Artist Sarah Friend on how digital currencies and NFTs are challenging our financial assumptions and augmenting how we buy, sell, trade and value g...

Finance : Society : Cryptocurrency

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Evrythng’s quest to make a trillion products traceable

Niall Murphy, CEO and co-founder of Evrythng, is on a mission to give every item manufactured each year a unique ID that will bring benefits to bra...

Retail : Technology : Traceability

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The future according to: Azeema magazine

From creating a magazine for MENASA womxn to offering agency services, Azeema’s founders discuss the necessity of accurate media representation.

Youth : Media : Advertising

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Hacking the senses will redefine self-care

Charles Spence, a world expert in multi-sensory perception, highlights how knowledge of our senses can have a profound effect on health and wellbei...

Health : Wellness : Sensory Experience

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Gen Z audiences are rewriting entertainment

Aron Levitz, head of Wattpad Studios, explains how the storytelling app is creating an entertainment universe powered by data, fandom and teen crea...

Youth : Media : Entertainment

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The Urgent Company accelerates sustainability

Industrialised food systems are broken. Paul Kollesoff, co-founder of The Urgent Company, explains how a more intelligent CPG eco-system could be t...

Food : Sustainability : Drink

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It’s time for a regenerative travel revolution

Conscious tourism is no longer enough. Amanda Ho, co-founder of Regenerative Travel, explains why travel brands should adopt a model of regeneratio...

Travel : Tourism : Hospitality

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The future according to: Sam Moyo

From launching a sober rave movement to coaching businesses on mysticism, the wellbeing expert offers a holistic insight into the future of work.

Health And Wellness : Workplace : Society

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Advertising must speed up to survive

The pandemic has exposed the slow production process of big ad agencies. Disruptive agency 10 Days is pioneering a faster alternative.

Advertising : Media : Workplace

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