Hard on the heels of an announcement by the designer Karl Lagerfeld that he is lending his name to a new luxury hotel in Macau, the fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger has said that he too is creating a fancy hotel, this one in South Miami Beach. Hilfiger and his partners are said to be putting up to $100 million into the purchase and renovation of...
In this age of plenty, when any commodity you could wish for is readily available to anyone who can afford it, the glitter of "things" is losing its luster. Rich people can no longer be show-offs to their friends by flaunting expensive items, because their friends can easily acquire the same things themselves. In short, the new frontier of...
Since the world's first cat cafe opened in Taiwan in 1998, there have been dozens of, ahem, copycats in cities around the world, from Bangkok and Budapest, to Munich, Montreal and Paris. This month, London got its own cat cafe called Lady Dinah’s Cat Emporium. British cat lovers can now have a cuppa surrounded by a pride of the cafe's eleven...
The "ready to drink" (RTD) market is in a state of flux. Sugary drinks are seeing steep declines and energy drinks have reached saturation points. It's no surprise then that we are seeing the market for canned and bottled drinks take many different directions lately. Regular readers of WikiTrend already know about reduced-sugar sodas, sparkling...
On WikiTrend you have already seen the dynamic billboard for British Airways that features a video of a child who points to the sky whenever one of the company's airplanes goes by. You have seen billboards for Volkswagen that flash private messages to VW owners who drive by. And you have seen a cotton candy-scented billboard that was erected in...
Hook them young and you will have a customer for life. This, the mantra of many businesses and brands, is now being applied to smartwatches. VTech KidiZoom Smart Watch is one of the first computerized watches made specifically for children. It doesn't connect to the Internet like adult models, but it does have a touchscreen, video camera,...