The Future Laboratory

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Fashion Month Autumn/Winter 2026: Five Personas Shaping Fashion Futures

Drawing on signals from Fashion Month autumn/winter 2026, these five fashion personas map the shifting decision logic, belief systems and expectations shaping contemporary fashion consumers and beyond.

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Beauty

New collagen research points to a more precise era of beauty claims

A review from the UK’s Anglia Ruskin University has confirmed that daily collagen supplementation delivers measurable improvements in skin elasticity and hydration – key components of healthy ageing – but stops short of making broad anti-ageing claims.

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Diverging Demographics

Adolescence extends to early 30s, new five-stage brain map reveals

New research mapping how the brain’s wiring shifts across life suggests adolescence doesn’t end until around age 32.

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Longevity

Longevity Lifestyles

The health, beauty and wellbeing sectors are embracing longevity as consumers awaken to the possibility of living not only longer, but healthier lives.

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Beauty

Longevity Comes of Age

Longevity has entered its accredited era and its pioneer Aubrey de Grey envisions a future where the survival of ageing populations will depend on specialised therapies.

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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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Technology

Ikea’s Space 10 wants to democratise AI

Copenhagen – Do You Speak Human?, a project designed and developed by Ikea’s external future living lab Space10, is a worldwide survey of how people would like their future AI to communicate.