Rose Coffey

Senior Strategic Foresight Analyst

Rose Coffey is a senior strategic foresight analyst at The Future Laboratory, where she reports on emerging cultural, societal and market shifts and advises global brands on future-facing strategies. With a background in fashion media production, Rose’s work explores digital identity, sensory design and the dressed body as a lens for understanding cultural, social and behavioural change. Her perspectives have been featured in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and The Guardian, and she has spoken at Berlin Fashion Week and on BBC Radio 4.

Latest articles from Rose

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Retail

China pilot turns cinema tickets into city commerce passes

China – The National Film Administration and Ministry of Commerce in China have selected 16 cities and districts for a three-year ‘film-plus’ consumption pilot designed to grow moviegoing, expand film-related spending and connect film creativity with local economies.

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Fashion

Foresight Friday: Rose Coffey, senior strategic foresight analyst

Every Friday, we offer an end-of-week wrap-up of the topics, issues, ideas and virals we’re all talking about.

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Retail

Stat: How rewards are reshaping the value exchange

Some 90% of Britons now belong to at least one loyalty scheme, according to new research from American Express.

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Sustainability

Stat: Outdoor fashion leads in latest circularity rankings

Outdoor fashion is emerging as the most mature category for circularity, according to Kearney’s sixth Circular Fashion Index.

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Fashion

Stat: Consumers are putting a premium on domestic production

The 2026 Australasian Sustainable Retail Index, based on 8,500 active shoppers surveyed over six months, found that 71% now consider environmental sustainability a primary factor when buying apparel, up 24% from three years ago.

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Design

Bugaboo explores a waste-powered future

Bugaboo has collaborated with Finland’s Aalto University to create a concept pram using bio-based and biodegradable materials, turning everyday waste into functional product components.

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Retail

Ikea cuts prices as cost-of-living pressures persist

Ikea is making £1bn (€1.2bn, €1.03bn) of permanent price cuts in more than 20 European countries as high living costs and cautious consumers hold back on furniture spending.

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Travel & Hospitality

Foresight Friday: Rose Coffey, senior strategic foresight analyst

Every Friday, we offer an end-of-week wrap-up of the topics, issues, ideas and virals we’re all talking about. This week, senior strategic foresight analyst Rose Coffey reflects on the rise of capability signalling.

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Technology

The Rise of Dream Tech

Technology that tracks, records and interprets dreams is reframing the unconscious as a tool for self-discovery, a collective thinking space and a new frontier for emotional wellness.

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Mobility

The Neo-Urbanites: The Urban Wayfinder

Meet the Urban Wayfinder, a Neo-Urbanite who navigates the city by bike, mapping his surroundings and choosing the scenic route over the fastest one.

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Beauty

Beauty as Environmental Defence

As environmental stressors intensify, beauty is moving beyond traditional skincare to build a new ecosystem of protection around the skin.

Second Home Holland Park, Photography by Iwan Baan, UK

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Retail

M&S backs the Retail Trust’s Let’s Respect Retail campaign

Marks & Spencer has become the first major UK grocer to publicly back the Retail Trust’s Let’s Respect Retail campaign, calling for greater action against abuse and intimidation of shopworkers.