Exhibiting a deep understanding of corporate values, social causes, and sustainability, Gen Alpha are invested in influencing and making informed purchasing decisions when it comes to spending their allowance. 

Our 2025 Pocket Money Purchases report is available on our premium trend subscription, My TrendBible. Here we explore the key consumer mindsets influencing entry-price point toys for 2025. 

Anti Online 

According to Priory Group 92% of parents believe social media is having a negative impact on the mental health of young people. Caregivers are increasingly interested in creating balanced experiences that allow for offline experiences and moments of escapism from the digital realm. 

Wild Potions 

Dive into the whimsical world of potion-making as covered in our Play Moments Enchanted Garden AW2025/26 report, a trend that’s capturing young imaginations and fostering creativity. Brands, such as Den Kit Company, offer kits featuring vibrant botanicals, glittering elements, and easy-to-follow recipes, children are creating their own magical brews at home. Potion-making is not only fun but entertains, educates and encourages experimentation and appreciation for the natural world. 

Mini Millennials 

As highlighted in our “Here Come the Tweens” report, the market for in-between ages has historically been underserved, often forcing children to “age up” to shed their childlike status. 

Age-Appropriate Beauty 

Beauty products aren’t just for Gen Z and older. Gen Alpha want in! Recently, many beauty brands have come under scrutiny for their harsh ingredients and adult messaging meaning this space has had to evolve quickly. Ever Eden, is a brand that has a strong safety-first message. Bubble, with its brightly coloured packaging and collaborations with Pixar Inside Out 2 and Byoma, with its approachable language, pastel packaging and affordable price points, are to name a few who have recently emerged and appeal to Gen Aplha tastes. 

How will low consumer confidence influence the popularity of pocket money purchases in 2026? 

Despite overall UK toy sales falling 3.7% in 2024, lower-priced toys boomed, reflecting a cost-conscious response to tougher economic conditions.  

With innovation and excitement around entry-price point toys set to continue, our Pocket Money Purchases: 2026 report explores new and evolving themes to keep in mind when designing and buying products for this market over the next 12 months. Now available on My Trendbible Premium Subscription. My TrendBible is a trend subscription platform designed to ignite inspiration, stimulate innovative ideas, instil confidence in your teams to act upon trends, and offer validation from across the globe. 

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Here, TrendBible’s Head of Subscription, Hannah Craggs highlights five key material and finish trends which areresponding to consumer attitudes.

Recycled Wood Composites

Our Home & Interiors Spring Summer 2025: Material & Finish report delves into our Retrofit Club trend. Durability is key to material and finishes in this trend, with upcycling, visible mending and patching providing creative solutions to wear and tear, as well as recycled composites reducing waste and establishing a directional aesthetic.

Salt Glaze and Rust-Inspired Finishes 

Our Autumn Winter 2025/26 trend, Unearthed is deeply materials-driven. It sits at the intersection of ancient and contemporary, playing rustic and refined elements against each other. Explored in our Home & Interiors Spring Summer 2025: Material & Finish report, metals become more matte, glass and ceramic goes to the other extreme. Taking on statement shine, with almost liquid look and iridescent qualities while lustrous silky fabrics, high-gloss and reflective surfaces amp up the glamour.

Stainless Steel & Cool-Toned Metals

For 2025 there’s a focus on recycled and reused metals leading to a new industrial age, where the forms of previous products are celebrated, refined, and reused.  Aluminium’s status as an infinitely recyclable material lends itself to mono materiality, with end of life recyclability factored in. Gaining a new premium status, we see metals and metallics elevated with matte finishes, brushed surfaces and subtle tints, all working to create a softer aesthetic for home and interiors.

Crafted Texture 

Our Home & Interiors Spring Summer 2025: Material & Finish report highlights a focus on craftsmanship in 2025. Revitalised traditional techniques are blended with bold, contemporary forms and finishes in this vibrant story. Natural brushy fibres and chiselled wooden surfaces mingle with colourful tinted plaster and bright laminates.

High Gloss + Mirrored surfaces

Our Spring Summer 2025 trend, Estudio Futuro balances refined and elegant materials with bold and playful forms. Explored in our Home & Interiors Spring Summer 2025: Material & Finish report, metals become more matte, glass and ceramic goes to the other extreme and takes on statement shine, with almost liquid look and iridescent qualities while lustrous silky fabrics, high-gloss and reflective surfaces amp up the glamour.

Are you eager to innovate through colour, material and finish? 

Our 2025 and 2026 reports demonstrate the key material trends and finishes to incorporate into home and interiors products from kitchen and bathroom surfaces to upholstery and decorative accessories. These reports are available now on My TrendBible Premium. My TrendBible is a trend subscription platform designed to ignite inspiration, stimulate innovative ideas, instil confidence in your teams to act upon trends, and offer validation from across the globe.

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Our Future of Celebration 2025 trend, Our Wildest Selves (originally forecast in 2023), explores how seasonal celebrations for 2025 reflect a desire for eco-abundance and healing through nature.

The Future of Celebration 2025: Our Wildest Selves 

Design is deeply rooted in the ecosystem and connected to ancient environments. Edible tablescapes, fruit and vegetable centrepieces, and cotton banners mingle with prehistoric botanical references in floral bouquets and garlands. 

The role of nature’s caretakers is firmly felt across festivities and occasions in this story. Restorative actions influence a host of celebratory re-wilding activities that are applied both to ceremonies and to ourselves. Food and drink caters to this mindset, taking ancient foods and ingredients as feasting inspiration. 

What we said: Nature-Driven Celebrations

The sentiment and design cues in our Future of Celebration 2025 trend, Our Wildest Selves translate perfectly across Easter celebrations, but are not restricted to Easter alone. Consider also developing nature-driven collections for non-religious spring-time celebrations, centring the earth and her bounty

What we saw: Decoration Celebrating Seasonal Abundance

For 2025, party and lifestyle brand Meri Meri teams up with UK floral designer, Hazel Gardiner on their range of floral garlands and centrepieces. Crafted with crepe paper flowers and taupe gingham ribbon, the collection reflects this trend’s design direction of sensorial abundance. Similarly, East End Press’ spring blooms sewn garlands draw inspiration from blooming hedgerows, featuring fresh seasonal motifs like cow parsley, daisies, and marigolds. Through spring trablescaping, stylist, cook, and creative consultant Kirthanaa Naidu brings this trend to life. Her designs embrace themes of gratitude and simplicity with natural textiles and hand-formed silhouettes.

What we said: Human Hibernation

The concept and benefits of ‘human hibernation’ (taking time away to reflect and restore) drive sentiment and wellness gifting. Messaging centres on the restorative effects and validity of rest, while journals promote introspection, gratitude and intention setting.

What we saw: Healing Gently Messaging

This season the narrative around rest and authentic approaches to self-care grew in product assortments. Alongside greetings that celebrate milestone moments, sentiments and sends that not only prioritise but also celebrate and acknowledge periods of recovery and stillness were seen in the ranges of Lagom Designs, Papier and Oh Happy Danni. Oh Happy Danni’s new range in particular caters to everyday advocates who are passionate about justice, gentle self-reflection and elevating empathy. The prospect of a better tomorrow is rooted in restorative and nourishing messages that connect consumers to their natural environment.

How can you tap into key seasonal celebrations for 2026?

If you work in the Gift & Greetings industry, our Future of Celebration 2026 report outlines key seasonal occasions. It offers insights into the key mindsets and behaviours shaping a range of occasions, from Mother’s Day and Easter to Valentine’s Day and everyday celebrations.

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Detailing the broader lifestyle context through to colour and design direction, our Home & Interiors Spring Summer 2027 Trend Forecast will guide you through the season and help you to develop commercially successful products and relevant messaging. 

Our Home & Interiors Spring Summer 2027 previews are available now with a Premium subscription to My TrendBible. The complete seasonal forecast can also be purchased individually via our Trend Store in May 2025.

What themes can I expect? 

For Spring Summer 2027, our Home & Interiors themes challenge notions of ease and perfection. All the while embracing the joy of taking the longer path and finding value in failure and friction.

As we continue to see householders design their spaces to prompt and support specific moods and emotions, two diverging directions emerge: one that favours a gentler pace and another that fosters an energetic atmosphere.

What’s included in the Home & Interiors Trend forecast? 

• 4 x key trends shaping the future of the Home & Interiors industry: Complete with backstory to illustrate their commercial relevance, emotional drivers and compelling storytelling. 
• 32 x PANTONE® referenced colours: Across 4 x carefully curated colour palettes with considered colour combinations and usage guidance to bridge the gap between palette and product. 
• 6 key seasonal colours: Highlighting the newest and most noteworthy shades of the season 
• Material and finish direction: Covering soft furnishings, furniture, hard goods, paper goods and craft. 
• Comprehensive print direction: Covering key motifs, coordinates and typography. 
• Commercially led product direction: Demonstrating how key shapes, materials, icons and colours can be applied across a variety of categories.  
• Downloadable content library: Instant access to the image library (including all image credits) and digital colour swatches. 

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Are you unable to attend Milan Design Week 2025?

If you find it challenging to secure resources to attend other influential tradeshows and events this year, read on to learn more about our My TrendBible tradeshow report series.

Salone del Mobile 

The 63rd edition of Salone del Mobile, held in the Fiera Milano district in Rho from 16th – 21st will feature the latest novelties, creative visions and innovations from leading companies in the design industry. This year, projects respond to the challenges of sustainability and numerous cultural events.

Fuorisalone 

For Fuorisalone 2025 the theme”Mondi Connessi” (Connected Worlds) is a vision that promotes participatory and generative design. Exhibitors celebrate the art of engagement through design and forms of artificial intelligence.

Cabana – ‘Speak, Memory’

Part of Cabana’s ‘Atlas of Craftsmanship’, ‘Speak, Memory’ showcases the work of seven master artisans, including Emily Bode, Dahyeon Yue and Green River Project. Co-curated by Deborah Needleman and Martina Mondadori, the exhibition features works made with LVMH Métiers d’Art materials. Set in Mondadori’s family home, the exhibition pays tribute to those who preserve the world’s rarest traditions.

Romantic Brutalism: A Journey into Polish Craft and Design

To mark 100 years since Poland’s participation in the 1925 Paris Exposition, the Visteria Foundation presents an exhibition celebrating the nation’s creativity and craftsmanship. Featuring 23 designers, it explores how themes of brutalism, romanticism, decadence, folk art, and art deco are being reinterpreted and reimagined today.

Dezeen x ASUS – ‘Design You Can Feel’

Following on from the success of ‘Design You Can Feel’ exhibition at last year’s London Design Festival, Dezeen has once again partnered with ASUS for their ‘Design You Can Feel’ exhibition, featuring an interactive installation by Studio INI. Exploring themes of materiality, craftsmanship and artificial intelligence (AI), this kinetic and biometric public sculpture reacts to visitors presence.

Faye Toogood x Tacchini – Bread & Butter

Furniture designer and MDW Designer of the Year 2024 Faye Toogood will unveil her latest collaboration with Tacchini at Salon del Mobile. Using bread and butter as a source for inspiration, citing them as ’the building blocks of domestic happiness and health’, this furniture collection explores the new perspectives found in routine and everyday life.

If you can’t attend Milan Design Week 2025, we’ll do the hard work for you

With so many tradeshows to choose from worldwide and growing constraints on travel and resources, it can be increasingly challenging to secure investment for your trend intelligence budget. Our series of tradeshow reports cover the world’s most influential events and highlight the key takeaways, so you won’t miss out. Our comprehensive trend insight and event round-up reports for 2024 are available as part of our Premium subscription on My TrendBible. 

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Here are 3 key questions brands and retailers should ask themselves to appeal to the 2025 consumer.

Access the full Householder Spending Habits: 2025 report outlining key insights for 2025 and beyond when you register for a free My TrendBible membership.

How might you enable customers to adapt what they already own to leverage maximum value from it?

In our 2025 Macro trend report, we forecast the rise of The Savvy Home, where we expected to see householders compromise and find more affordable ways to indulge in the regular stylistic décor refresh they’ve become accustomed to. We cited examples of product innovations and ideas that helped their money go further – from getting more from their fresh groceries with a ‘freeze-first’ approach, to adaptable upholstery covers to regularly switch up the style of their sofa.

How might you retain your meaningful connection with your audience?

Even if your audience undertake a ‘no-buy in ‘25’ challenge, how do you maintain relevance with them beyond a transactional engagement? One example of a great low investment strategy is by online bank, Monzo, whose 1p saving challenge auto-deposits 1p into your savings account to allow customers to save up to £667 over the course of a year. What can you do to make the small moments stack up?

How might you enable householders seeking a low-cost, low-energy lifestyle?

With 55% of companies planning a price hike in 2025 [BBC], 33% of consumers expect to spend less on non-food retail in 2025 [Alix Partners] and over 60% of households going into 2025 with less disposable income [Asda] forcing many consumers to buy less, thriftiness is on the agenda for 2025 and beyond. Access the full report and discover how our Spring Summer 2025 trend: Retrofit Club translates this into design.

Unsure what this means for your consumer?

At TrendBible, we’re supporting our clients in identifying how low consumer confidence will impact their future product ranges. As part of our My TrendBible trend subscription we provide comprehensive insight reports, helping you to create commercially viable products for home and interiors’ markets.

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Our Future of Celebration 2025 trend, Inner Rebellion (originally forecast in 2023), explores how seasonal celebrations for 2025 reflect a more authentic take on modern parenthood. 

The Future of Celebration 2025: Inner Rebellion

An anti-toxic positivity mindset comes to the fore, ushering in a fearless attitude towards acceptance of failures, and providing space to embrace the full cohort of ups and downs of life, warts and all. The quest to connect with caregivers with their most authentic voice defines this liberating story. Celebrations offer a sense of release, free from rules and expectations, whilst acknowledging and embracing differences.  

Here, we highlight how brands have translated this trend for Mother’s Day 2025. 

Alternative Caregivers & Kinship

As highlighted in our 2025 Macro Trend, The Village, four in five Gen Z parents report having a different approach to child-rearing than their parents. From important influential friends to aunts, grandmothers and step-mothers, the idea of ‘parental’ influence and non-biological caregiving is seeing a serious shift. As family dynamics evolve, Mother’s Day can be both a joyful occasion and an emotional challenge, highlighting complex feelings around motherhood, family, and idealised parental roles. Gift and greetings brand Not Another Bill embraces this moment by celebrating alternative maternal figures this Mother’s Day. 

Gifting Beyond the Bouquet 

Next-gen mothers aren’t afraid to disrupt tradition and reject ‘social norms’. This desire to stand out and preserve a strong sense of personal identity is a key purchasing motivator for Mother’s Day 2025. In response to this mindset shift, Moonpig have launched a campaign offering free Mother’s Day Tattoos. This campaign recognises new voices and visuals that truly reflect parents’ tastes and modern motherhood. 

How can your brand improve the appreciation of mothers and caregivers?

If you work in the Gift & Greetings industry, our Future of Celebration 2026 report outlines key seasonal occasions. It offers insights into the key mindsets and behaviours shaping a range of occasions, from Mother’s Day and Easter to Valentine’s Day and everyday celebrations.

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Introducing our ‘Allclusive Characters’ report series

The ‘Allclusive Characters’ report series, available on our Premium trend subscription My TrendBible, explores better representation for character design and narrative and spotlights key design opportunities to help brands convey this ‘allclusive‘ attitude.

Part 1: Allclusive Characters

A backlash towards perfectionism as well as a greater understanding of mental health is highlighting a greater demand for more authentic representation. This spotlights an opportunity to showcase what it means to be human and the spectrum of emotions and vulnerabilities that can often come with it. Achieve this using expressive faces, nervous movement lines and scribbled thought patterns. Looking for experimental ways to depict a wider representation across body types, race, gender and disability as well as evolving family dynamics and relationships is crucial to connecting with Gen Alpha and Gen Z. This report demonstrates how designers must look beyond a ‘one size fits all’ approach to help children navigate and appreciate the nuances that make them unique.

Part 2: Representing Neurodiversity

In this second installment, we take a deep dive into the ever-evolving realm of neurodiversity representation in character design. As highlighted in our 2025 Macro Report, an increased understanding of neurodiversity and mental health allows children to begin to create a world where diverse ways of thinking are embraced, normalised and actively celebrated. Whilst there’s still a long way to go, conditions such as Autism, ADHD, and ADD, which were once misunderstood or overlooked, are beginning to find their rightful place within children’s literature, media and art.

Part 3: Evolving Family Dynamics

A greater push for inclusion has prompted a radical rethink of family norms and social narratives. This report demonstrates the importance of looking for experimental ways to showcase evolving family dynamics and the unique people and perspectives within them. Whether this is capturing diverse family setups through multifaceted characters that defy stereotypical family roles or exploring clashing illustrative styles to emphasise unique personality traits.

Part 4: Disabled Sporting Champions

This report focuses on the evolution of representation, from the importance of the 2024 Paralympics to trailblazers who are emphasizing accessibility and reshaping perceptions of disability in sport. Designers and brands have the creative freedom to explore concepts that champion inclusivity, resonating with Gen Z and Gen Alpha audiences. By transcending traditional boundaries, this approach is helping to cultivate a more compassionate and inclusive creative landscape.

Unpack fresh inspiration and pioneering initiatives for all forms of character design when you subscribe to our Premium membership at My TrendBible. My TrendBible is our trend subscription service dedicated to The Future of Life at Home. It is designed to inspire and spark ideas, give your teams confidence in actioning trends and provide validation from across the globe.

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With up to 90% of purchase decisions influenced by colour, it is crucial to predict future consumer attitudes and preferences accurately.

Here, our Director of Trend Services, Naomi Pollard, explores TrendBible’s unique colour philosophy. She shares 5 expert tips on how to leverage the colour trends within our seasonal forecasts, to craft compelling products and experiences that will resonate with your future consumers:

• Why forecasting colour trends for the home requires a different strategy from fashion forecasting
• How to select colour trends that are rooted in psychology 
• Identifying the essential colours for the season across multi-product categories
• Ensuring colour ‘layerability’ for longer-lasting, sustainable design
• How to innovate through colour combinations

1. Why forecasting colour trends for the home requires a uniquely different strategy from fashion forecasting

At TrendBible we know that householders choices are influenced by a very specific set of circumstances. We forecast what’s next using research models specially designed to identify new behaviours and taste shifts at home and in family life, rather than relying on models created for other, very different consumer industries like fashion or beauty. As a result, our colour trend strategy provides clear direction, confidence and longevity for designers in the home and interior industry.

2. How to select colour trends that are rooted in psychology  

Colour is a deeply emotional and symbolic design tool. Our forecast methodology begins with intelligence gathering; using a blend of visual research alongside social and cultural analysis. This two-pronged approach ensures palettes not only reflect what we see happening in the emerging design landscape around us, but also the key emotional triggers for future consumers.

Our team of colour experts and psychologists look at hue, depth, vibrancy and colour balance. In doing so, they create the right levels of excitement and energy, calming harmony or surprise as required by the mood we’ve identified for each trend.

3. Identifying the essential colours for the season across multi-product categories

While highlighting a ‘colour of the year’ provides excellent marketing opportunities and can be used to spotlight a shade or group of colours which have significant appeal, we know it’s impossible to say that a single shade is going to be successful across every category.

That’s why we choose not one, but six key colours for the season ahead. These colours are essential for designers working in categories with limited colour opportunities. They also help to update products where colour nuance has a huge impact; like home appliances, upholstery or tiles.

Each colour has been chosen because of its overarching importance for the season, and the breadth of six shades caters to different markets, categories or materials. Some work beautifully in textiles, while other nuances are better for wall paint and ceramics, glass or even packaging.

4. Ensuring colour ‘Layerability’ for longer-lasting, sustainable design 

Another important consideration within our colour trend forecasting process is the ‘layerability’ of colour. Unlike fashion or beauty, products purchased for the home usually sit alongside products from previous seasons, if not decades for some customers.

Colour trends can take years to fully come and go in the home; think about the influence of grey, or blush pink for instance. For this reason, we don’t introduce new colours unnecessarily.

You will sometimes find a key shade from one season appearing in the following season and we always consider the blending of colours from one season to the next. This has practical, economic and sustainability benefits, making it easier to cross-match stock from the previous season for visual merchandising and to reduce unnecessary lab dips or sampling. It also makes the shopping experience easier and more enjoyable for customers who can build upon the colour palette they have invested in already.

5. How to innovate through colour combinations

Finally, it’s essential to explore colour not in isolation, but alongside the other shades in the palette. Does the trend require contrast or harmony? Depth or lightness? Colour combinations have huge power and new contrast-partners can bring freshness to existing colours. A mauve which may have sat alongside tonal blues and purples in a previous season, takes on a completely different feel when contrasted with an olive green for instance.

Our colour usage guidance shows how the colours in the palette can be combined in different groupings to change the overall feel of the trend. This is especially helpful if you want to explore a single trend across both traditional and directional product assortments or younger and older consumer groups.

Stay informed with trend direction for every season, with insights from our colour experts   

Available as part of My TrendBible, our seasonal trend forecasts provide a concise edit of the newest, most innovative trends for the future of home and family life.

Featuring four unique stories every season, each trend provides clear direction on shape, material, print, pattern and colour (PANTONE® referenced) to unlock creativity and fire the imagination. Each trend in our forecast comes with guidance on how to break the broader colour palettes into impactful combinations of 2-5 colours for double-sided or colour-blocked items, print designs or when planning a collection of objects.  

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As explored in our Spring Summer 2025 trend, Home Shores (originally published in 2023), the home is low key but refined, taking inspiration from coastal aesthetics. 

This wild yet soothing trend sees householders embrace elemental therapies to recalibrate, tapping into the power of the bracing wind, flowing water and warm earth beneath their feet. Inspired by low-key and low-pressure lakeside lifestyles, the home becomes an oasis of understated design details and furniture that has comfort at its heart. 

Home environments nod to the traditional beach hut with curtained storage to hide clutter, rippled detailing on furniture and tiled fireplaces or stoves providing warmth. Waterside sports inspire practical updates to products, including chain link detailing and net-inspired panels. The applications feature sophisticated materials and finishes. Simple futons, low-lying furniture, and deck chairs provide somewhere to relax. 

Subdued and Soothing Colour Palette  

A soothing colour palette balances cool and warm tones. Pops of calming Misted Yellow and Spanish Villa feel comforting against refreshing water-inspired blues. The swamp greens of algae deposits and reeds are complemented by earthy tints, whilst deep Orion Blue adds depth. 

ASMR Driven Design 

Colour, material, finish (CMF), shape and pattern are all used to soothe and promote rest. Sound and light absorption is increasingly important, creating hushed cocoons. Across product categories, rippling sensorial techniques replicate the feeling of being in water or brushing your hand through sand. 

How will attitudes towards well-being influence home design for 2026 and beyond? 

Our seasonal trend forecasts outline the timeliest design trends exploring sensorial design, Spring Summer 2026 and Autumn Winter 2026/27 are both available now on My TrendBible Premium. My TrendBible is a trend subscription platform designed to ignite inspiration, stimulate innovative ideas, instil confidence in your teams to act upon trends, and offer validation from across the globe. 

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As explored in our Spring Summer 2025 trend, Market Street (originally published in 2023), children are introduced to the vibrant and artisanal design of Latin America.  

The hustle and bustle of food markets provides a familiar setting for children around the world. Roaming stall-lined streets, immersive play experiences mimic the sensorial qualities of the market. Through this exploration, little ones are introduced to the tactile textures of new and unusual fruits. 

Placing authentic artisanship at the forefront of design, products pair traditional weaving and building techniques with bold, contemporary forms and vibrant colour. Hand-built ceramics and papier-maché techniques inspire shape for play, feeding and decor items, with glossy surfaces highlighting their unique imperfections.

Sun-Soaked Summer Shades 

Dopamine-inducing brights are paired with bursts of fresh and juicy pastel hues to create energising combinations. Deep, rich, earthy tones signify the continued importance of naturally derived colours, harmonising with saturated hues and offering trans-seasonal appeal. 

Graphic Weaves 

Displaying a variety of artisanal techniques, graphically decorated woven surfaces inspire everything from lighting and storage to toys and trinkets.  

Vibrantly coloured strands intertwine with layers of yarns, rattan, repurposed plastics, and acrylic-coated papers, creating intriguing textured surfaces; perfect for small hands to explore. Bold blocks of colour, along with vivid grid, stripe, and zig-zag patterns, form distinctively dynamic designs. Woven amorphous structures are brought to life with hairy trims, stacked geometric blocks or hand-painted abstract characters.

Do you need to stay ahead of shifting consumer behaviours? 

Our seasonal trend forecasts outline the timeliest design trends exploring diversity and inclusion. Spring Summer 2026 and Autumn Winter 2026/27 are both available now on My TrendBible Premium. My TrendBible is a trend subscription platform designed to ignite inspiration, stimulate innovative ideas, instil confidence in your teams to act upon trends, and offer validation from across the globe.

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2025 Valentine’s E-commerce and Retail Trends: Tracking ‘A Basic Affair’ 

Here we show a short extract from the full Valentine’s Day 2025 Trend Tracker report exploring the adoption of TrendBible’s Future of Celebrations 2025 trend, A Basic Affair. Register for a free My TrendBible subscription to access the full report and explore how this trend has influenced Valentine’s Day gifting in 2025.

This trend redefines luxury for 2025, centring on intimate, nourishing celebrations where the art of hosting shines. Playful, cuisine-inspired prints – featuring butter sticks, twirling pasta, and nods to restaurant linens – add charm, while a casual yet elevated dining aesthetic transforms simple pleasures into memorable moments at home.

What we said:

A celebration of seasonal produce sees vegetables take centre stage. Living arrangements comprising of leeks, asparagus or tomatoes range from simplistic and sculptural to artfully woven. Serving a dual purpose, deconstructed displays may be gifted to guests to cook and enjoy. 

‘Grow to eat’, becomes ‘grow to display’ as seasonal sunny, golden blooms are interspersed with long stems of ripening tomatoes or chillies. Tumbling from centrepieces and cascading from bouquets, these create striking and aromatic gifting opportunities for foodie friends and family members.

What we saw:

Seasonal produce influences are reshaping traditional Valentine’s gifting, moving beyond roses and chocolates. Worm London’s “Radicchio, Not Roses” campaign exemplifies this shift, using radicchio leaves in floral displays to promote seasonality and challenge tradition.  

Food-themed puns are increasingly focusing on vegetables, signaling a shift away from traditional sweet food icons like strawberries and cherries. For 2025, tomatoes, olives, and pickles emerge as key motifs across gift and seasonal greeting ranges. A variety of brands are embracing this trend, with phrases including “I love you from my head to-ma-toes” and “Olive you so much” featuring heavily.

We explore the growing influence of radicchio, along with seasonal and place-based eating, in our Future of Celebration 2026 trend, Fruitful Lands, including how fresh produce is influencing motif and gifting opportunities for 2026 and beyond. 

Are you rethinking your 2026 retail occasions? 

If you’re looking ahead to next year, our  2026 Future of Celebration forecast explores how everyday moments are influencing messaging and gifting for Valentine’s Day and other key seasonal occasions.  

Our Future of Celebration forecasts will help you plan and execute campaigns and product ranges that will resonate with your future consumers’ needs and expectations. Get actionable direction on trends covering all every day and seasonal celebrations.  

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