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Fashion

Recalibrating Indian Luxury

As India’s luxury market evolves, culturally fluent, globally exposed consumers are shaping craft-conscious, culturally embedded and ritual-led propositions.

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Technology

Welcome to The (Tech) Resistance

The Future Laboratory’s director of foresight Fiona Harkin explores what technocracy and an emerging new world order based on data flow and technological infrastructure could mean for brands and citizen-consumers.

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Fashion

Global Fashion Summit 2024: Fashion’s Tipping Point?

Despite 15 years of discussions on sustainability since the Global Fashion Summit’s inception in 2009, the event deplored the lack of real progress, calling for less talk and more action.

Shenzhen Women Childrens Centre by MVRDV. Photography by Xia Zhi, China
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Design

MVRDV converts mixed-use tower into women and children centre

Dutch architectural firm MVRDV has transformed a tower block in Shenzhen, China, into a colourful women and children’s centre.

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Technology

Hitachi turns to the metaverse for next-generation workforce training

Multinational electronics giant Hitachi is using the metaverse to enable skilled manufacturing workers to run demonstrations on real-world equipment.

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Culture & Media

Web3 beauty brand Kiki co-creates products with its customers

Kiki is a new Web3-enabled beauty brand that invites consumers to co-create its products.

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Beauty

Next-Gen R&D Labs

A new generation of R&D labs are emerging to meet consumers’ expectations on product quality and efficacy, while supporting underserved communities.

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Retail

Nike is extending the lifespan of its sneakers

Bringing the principles of the Right to Repair movement to the fashion industry, Nike has partnered with creative engineering studio PCH Innovations to build a robot that extends the lifespan of its sneakers.

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Marketing & Branding

How Atelier is creating anti-fragile beauty supply chains

Nick Benson, co-founder of beauty manufacturing network Atelier, on connecting with the creator economy and using data to strengthen supply chains.