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Why the cart is always full: The rise of the microtrend in fashion

India, May 16 -- Fashion trend forecasting is difficult enough when the customer is eager to toe the line. Conformity, for centuries, was the industry's ally. By the 1960s, this was all changing. Th... Read More


From King Louis IX to the birth of couture: The surprising history of fashion forecasting

India, May 16 -- In 1999, the American toy company Mattel released a Trend Forecaster Barbie, as a limited-edition collectors' item. She was dressed in a faux-leather swing coat, matching mini-skirt,... Read More


The three Indias: Making sense of the great economic divide

India, May 3 -- What does ultra-high net worth mean? How many are they and how do they live? What of India's poorest? Who are we, as a country, once the slim upper crust has been peeled away? Split t... Read More


Where is the love?

India, April 27 -- Divorce rates appear to be rising, in the wild. The factors may sound familiar: house-hunting disputes, long-distance-relationship hurdles, rising stress levels, and the good old "... Read More


Where is the love? See why couples are unexpectedly breaking up, in the world of birds

India, April 26 -- Divorce rates appear to be rising, in the wild. The factors may sound familiar: house-hunting disputes, long-distance-relationship hurdles, rising stress levels, and the good old "... Read More


Leaps of fate: See how people of the past attempted to predict the future

India, April 18 -- Risk analysts, it would appear, have always been around. They've just gone by different names: oracles, divination experts, shamans. An exhibition currently underway at Oxford Univ... Read More