Stylus: Innovation Research & Advisory

Hospitality’s Heightened Fitness Focus Hospitality’s Fitness Focus From business travellers and tourists to hardcore athletes, maintaining fitness levels on the road has become a major priority. Catering to this need, opportunistic hoteliers, travel providers and fitness brands are developing agile and convenient products and services for on-the-go sports enthusiasts.

Hotels

Lucidity S/S 19 Lucidity S/S 19 Fashion’s current focus on pragmatism takes a New Age turn for Spring/Summer 2019 as an uplifting filter energises and invigorates everyday apparel.

Fashion Forecast

S/S 19: Editor's Overview S/S 19: Editor's Overview Over the coming weeks, we’ll be publishing our three-part Fashion Forecast for Spring/Summer 2019. Here we highlight the key messages from those trend evolutions – and what they mean for the fashion industry and beyond.

Fashion Forecast

CMF Industry View: Home Appliances CMF Industry View: Home Appliances Our Industry View reports collate the latest trends in colour, material and finish (CMF) and explain how they are set to influence future applications in different sectors, focusing on one industry at a time. Here, we round up the key themes emerging in home appliances, drawing out inspirational projects from Miele, Smeg and Faber.

Colour & Materials

Materials

Surviving Marketing Fails Surviving Marketing Fails Social media has become a platform where companies face widespread criticism for controversial advertising, with pressure so intense that even big global brands such as Pepsi and McDonald’s have ended up apologising and withdrawing their campaigns. We look at what went wrong for them – and explore the best practices for avoiding a digital fallout which could hurt sales and damage a brand’s reputation.

Media & Marketing

Advertising & Branding

Destination Teen: Targeting Youth Destination Teen: Targeting Youth From harnessing hangout culture, self-curation commerce and influencing upwards, to embracing the teen-specific trader mentality, Gen Z requires new retail landscapes to warrant their spending. We review the key concepts seducing the youth sector, including soft-sell brand temples, gateway beauty spaces and resale sweet spots.

Retail

Store Concepts

17 Jul 2017

Compassion Culture: Embracing Empathy Compassion Culture A backlash against several trends – including hate speech and acts, as well as a digitally driven decline in the ability to relate face-to-face – is spurring a new drive to cultivate and inspire empathy and compassion.

Consumer Lifestyle

Consumer Attitudes

17 Jul 2017

A/W 17/18 Couture: Hair & Beauty A/W 17/18 Couture: Hair & Beauty A season of wildly eclectic looks ranged from futuristic sci-fi, warrior goddess and old Hollywood glamour, to directional, imperfect hair and make-up styling not usually associated with the couture catwalks. Highlights included Chanel’s paint-palette eyes and gloriously dishevelled bedhead ponytails at Dior and Fendi.

Beauty

Packaging Futures 2017/18 Packaging Futures 2017/18 Building on key insights from our previous packaging-focused Industry Trend, we revisit seminal themes and directions using our Innovation Platforms – Luxury Perspectives, Digital Worlds, Sustainable Futures and Fast Consumption – to steer our thinking.

Incorporating two recently added platforms, we extend our insight into packaging across Wraparound Wellness and Diversity Outlook.

14 Jul 2017

Product Design

Packaging

11 Jul 2017

Resort 18: Hair & Beauty Resort 18: Hair & Beauty Make-up artists and hairstylists showcased more concept-driven looks for Resort 2018 as the influence of inter-season (Pre-Fall and Resort) shows continues to grow. Athleisure and streetwear inspire bold, practical looks, while festival styling takes on an exotic edge.

Beauty

Alcohol Trends 2017: Imbibe Live Alcohol Trends 2017: Imbibe Live From bamboo-activated charcoal gin and champagne-inspired sake to canned nitro coffee, product developers smashed category conventions at this year’s Imbibe Live trade show, a prolific showcase for the alcohol industry held in London (July 3-4). Beyond flavour and format developments, packaging and branding solutions displayed a huge dose of creative wizardry.

10 Jul 2017

Gen Alpha: Childhood Rebooted Gen Alpha: Childhood Rebooted Gen Alpha are equally at home having adventures in the great outdoors as they are being sung to sleep by their smart toys. Whether they're testing their limits through risky play or learning to code, this new generation is redefining the way we think of childhood.

Food & Beverage

10 Jul 2017

Consumer Lifestyle

Demographics

10 Jul 2017

The Innovative Outdoors The Innovative Outdoors Our gardens are changing. Robotic gardening tools lighten the workload, while fully equipped sheds and cooking facilities further elevate the outdoors as a continuation of the home. We explore the new furniture trends to suit this multifunctional update.

Product Design

Furniture

07 Jul 2017

US Specialty Food Trends 2017 US Specialty Food Trends 2017 From fish-free tuna and kelp jerky to chocolate-coated chia seeds, this year's Summer Fancy Food Show (June 25-27) – a prolific showcase for specialty foods held in NYC – illustrated how the sector is ramping up its health and wellbeing credentials.

Resort 18: Editor's Overview Resort 18: Editor's Overview The pre-season shows kicked off the latest runway season, with six weeks of showroom appointments and lookbooks slotted in alongside the S/S 18 Menswear and A/W 17/18 Haute Couture collections – making June one of the busiest months on the annual fashion calendar.

Resort 18: Key Items Checklist Resort 18: Key Items Checklist Our Resort 18 Key Items Checklist cuts through the noise of six weeks of shows and lookbooks to deliver the definitive key takeaways – those all-important must-have commercial pieces that will drive the new season. So whether you’re looking to update current bestsellers or keep your eye on the new hero pieces, this report is your ultimate guide to what’s hot.

Resort 18: The Print & Pattern Edit Resort 18: The Print & Pattern Edit To support the key Print & Pattern call-outs featured in our Elements Edit, we highlight additional themes from the Resort 2018 lookbooks.

07 Jul 2017

Resort 18: Footwear & Accessories Resort 18: Footwear & Accessories Retro sports influences and a practical mood were the key takeaways from Resort 18, with vibrant colour continuing to add an uplifting note as we head into the summer season.

05 Jul 2017

Lamp Imitates Natural Light Indoors Lamp Imitates Natural Light Indoors Dutch designer and engineer Leslie Nooteboom has created a series of algorithmically generated moving images that imitate the dynamic nature of natural light for an ethereal and calming lighting solution.

03 Jul 2017

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Product Design

Lighting

Infused Snortable Cacao Infused Snortable Cacao Orlando-based dietary supplement producer Legal Lean has launched a new brand of snortable chocolate powder.

Food & Beverage

Retail Platform Reframes Autism Retail Platform Reframes Autism Echoing initiatives detailed in Empathetic Brand Engagement, new lifestyle website Wolf + Friends caters to parents of children with autism and other special needs by linking to a selection of need-appropriate yet aesthetically appealing products from both chains and independent retailers.

Retail

Store Concepts

New Exhibition Celebrates History of Plywood New Exhibition Celebrates Plywood The latest exhibition at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum is solely dedicated to plywood.

Colour & Materials

Materials

Vexed Generation: Fashioning Resistance Fashioning Resistance Political fashion brand Vexed Generation is making a comeback for Autumn/Winter 2018. The announcement follows the London brand’s inclusion at NY-based retailer Opening Ceremony and Byronesque’s collaborative #FashionPorn pop-up.

Designers & Brands

Ermes x IBM Watson: AI-Powered Real-Time Pricing Ermes x IBM Watson: Dynamic Pricing The perennial retail problem of identifying ideal price points and the exact timings of markdowns is being tackled head-on by Cyprus’s largest department store brand Ermes Group – assisted by IBM’s cloud-based, artificially intelligent pricing tool Watson Commerce.

Retail

Digital Commerce

Royal Opera House & Moma: High-Culture Emoji Royal Opera House's Emoji Stories For World Emoji Day on July 17 (the date featured on the calendar emoji), London’s Royal Opera House (@RoyalOperaHouse) partnered with Twitter to retell the stories of famous operas and ballets using only emoji.

Media & Marketing

Advertising & Branding

Tech Tools for Ethical Shopping Tech Tools for Ethical Shopping A desire for sustainable consumption is triggering a rise in forward-thinking tech solutions that help people to shop more ethically.

Consumer Lifestyle

Science & Technology