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Fashion

The Industry.Fashion: Can repair redefine the value of a garment?

At the second edition of the annual Industry.Fashion event in London, the morning opened with the session Circular Creativity: Redefining the Value of Objects which explored longevity as a design principle rather than an end-of-life concern.

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Food & Drink

Costa returns to profit by following younger consumers’ drinking habits

Costa’s UK coffee shop arm has returned to profit after broadening its menu with iced drinks, matcha and decaffeinated options.

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Fashion

Stat: Natural fibres are becoming a premium purchase driver

New research commissioned by Woolmark of 1,500 people in China, France, Germany, Italy and the US finds that 82% prefer natural fibres to synthetics when price, style and fit are equal, and 67% would pay more for clothing made mainly from natural fibres.

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Culture & Media

Post-feed Youth Media

A new wave of youth magazines is giving young people a space for authenticity, self-expression and community, while helping them to combat tech fatigue.

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Technology

Hatch’s Life of Scores challenges wellness culture’s focus on optimisation

Hatch has teamed up with Olivia Munn for Life of Scores, a campaign that challenges wellness culture’s habit of turning every part of life into a metric.

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Technology

Messaging apps are turning delay into a feature

Carrier Pidge and Roost, two apps launched in April, are delivering messages at the pace of animals rather than instantly.

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Home & Family

Stat: Britain’s heatwaves are reshaping how consumers spend on their homes

Barclays analysis of the UK’s warmest summer on record finds that consumers are investing in long-term heat resilience.

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Marketing & Branding

Oura builds an intricate miniature city by hand for its latest campaign

Health wearable brand Oura has launched Wear Your Best Life – a hero film in which hands become human characters, navigating a 1:10 scale miniature city built by 35 master model-makers.

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Travel & Hospitality

Spiritland brings its listening bar to the Barbican

London listening bar Spiritland is opening a new venue in the Barbican Centre. It will seat 100 guests and offer seasonal cocktails, beers and wines, alongside a European-Japanese menu and weekend brunch.