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Browsing Multi-Functional

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Beauty

Stripped-back skincare

New York – Meant is a new streamlined bodycare range that includes only a few products but with greater functionality.

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Beauty

Hybrid beauty

Global – Hybrid beauty is emerging as a popular cosmetics category as consumers increasingly demand multifunctional products.

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Beauty

Korean minimalism

Los Angeles – Korean-made CLE Cosmetics designs innovative beauty fixes for the Western beauty market.

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Beauty

More for pores

Singapore – Allies of Skin is a skincare range that flies in the face of complex, time-consuming beauty rituals.

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Retail

St Petersburg Safari

While Communism has left its mark on St Petersburg, buildings have been restored in recent years and are being re-appropriated as co-working spaces, boutiques, cafés and cultural venues.

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Luxury

Men's Grooming Market

Men’s grooming is where the big growth is to be found. Smart beauty brands are targeting a sector that has continued to out-perform the women’s beauty sector despite five years of global economic turmoil. Worldwide, men’s grooming is worth $13.4bn (€9.9bn, £8.4bn) and will reach $15.5bn (€11.5bn, £9.7bn) by 2017, according to management…

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Design

Light design: Lamp OOO is fun yet functional

Ukraine – Ukrainian designer Vasiliy Butenko challenged himself to create a lamp that was easy to assemble, had as few parts as possible yet was multi-functional.

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Health, Wellness & Sport

Work in progress: A new kind of arts framework

Work in progress: A new kind of arts framework

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Technology

The Hacked Home

In future, families will modify, hack and download to create customised interiors to suit the changing needs of their multi-generational households.