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Gucci positions watchmaking as cultural object

Gucci is doubling down on artisanal craft in its sixth high watchmaking collection, featuring four new G-Timeless Métiers d’Art timepieces alongside a gemstone-led Gucci 25H design.

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Fashion

Levi’s launches Wear Longer Project to teach Gen Z clothing repair skills

Levi’s has unveiled the Wear Longer Project, a new education initiative designed to equip young people with practical skills to repair, refresh and personalise their clothes.

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Fashion

The North Face fuses ancient art with performance gear

As Lunar New Year approaches, The North Face is celebrating both the Year of the Horse and its 60th anniversary with a limited-edition collection that blends technical innovation with culturally rooted design.

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Fashion

Future Forecast 2026: Luxury 

Luxury brands are transforming from storytellers into storylivers – crafting worlds where culture, community and craftsmanship converge through experience, emotion and sensory design

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Retail

The Viewpoint: Tactile Touchpoints

In a retail climate marked by economic anxiety and digital overload, the act of in-store customisation is emerging as a cultural salve, with shoppers embracing analogue customisation rituals that restore clarity, presence and a sense of control.

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Fashion

Innovation Debrief 2025: Craftsmanship Safeguards

As forecast in our Luxury Recrafted and New Codes of Luxury macrotrend reports, brands are becoming taste-makers and patrons of the arts by investing in the preservation of craftsmanship. From teaching ancestral know-how to emerging talent to digitising artisanal techniques for longevity, your favourite brand is already acting as a museum curator.

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Fashion

Innovation Debrief 2025: Certified in Space

Tested in space' is fast becoming the ultimate badge of innovation – a signal of exceptional quality and in-house expertise. If a product can survive space, it suggests the brand’s everyday offerings are built with the same advanced thinking and craftsmanship.

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Luxury

Tactile Touchpoints

Nathalie Valmary, founder of notebook brand Louise Carmen, talks to LS:N Global about repositioning the leather journal as a personal sanctuary of intent.

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Fashion

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.

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Gucci positions watchmaking as cultural object

Levi’s launches Wear Longer Project to teach Gen Z clothing repair skills

The North Face fuses ancient art with performance gear