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Browsing Sci-fi

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Culture & Media

Hong Kong Ballet merges tradition with cyberpunk

A new campaign draws on the city’s enduring cyberpunk legacy that has inspired popular sci-fi films.

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Marketing & Branding

Gentle Monster releases a series of sci-fi chapters

The luxury eyewear brand is exploring a future in which reality and fantasy coincide.

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Fashion

Spring/summer 2017 Fashion Week: Part 1

Messages of female empowerment and irreverent DIY embellishments were among the themes and treatments presented by designers this season. LS:N Global outlines the defining design directions from the spring/summer 2017 Fashion Week shows.

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Sustainability

Work-life balance

London – Artist Yuri Pattison’s latest exhibition explores how our working and personal lives are becoming increasingly indistinguishable.

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Fashion

S/S 2016 Fashion Week design directions: Part 2

In the second part of our report on the key themes that defined spring/summer 2016, LS:N Global explores the influence of gaming culture, sci-fi films and nostalgia for the noughties in this season’s aesthetic direction.

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Design

Stardust stories

Basel – London designers Studio Swine presented a spectacular fictional narrative as part of the Swarovski Designers of the Future 2015 Award.

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Culture & Media

Rules of reality

Paris – Mini has announced its first foray into augmented reality (AR) with a slick sci-fi tutorial.

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Culture & Media

A gif to music: Storyboard animates music in collaboration for The Jameson Works

Dublin – The band Wild Beasts has teamed up with illustrator and animator Mattis Dovier to create a series of gifs that bring to life the music from two unreleased tracks.

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Beauty

Intergalactic beauty

On the catwalks, intergalactic references began with Alexander McQueen’s Avatar-èsque Plato’s Atlantis spring/summer 2010 collection, Christopher Kane’s solar system print 2011 Resort range and Matthew Williamson’s autumn/winter 2013 nod to the Northern Lights. So it was only a matter of time before beauty brands looked beyond Earth to space for…