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HomePage News InSight Trend Index 2025/26: The Changing Face of Entertaining

The HomePage News InSight™ Trend Index Fall/Winter 2025/26 examines the Changing Face of Entertaining: Revitalizing the Hosting Experience.

The HomePage News InSight Trend Index is a quarterly consumer trend forecasting resource designed for product developers, retailers and brand strategists seeking foresight into emerging design aesthetics, hosting trends and purchasing drivers that shape home and housewares growth opportunities.

The InSight Trend Index is produced by HomePage News in partnership with InSight author and consumer lifestyle trend analyst Tom Mirabile of Springboard Futures and InSight creative director Dawn Evans.

The Springboard Futures team explored influential trade shows in the U.S. and abroad, seeking home and housewares trends driven by global influences such as design, consumer lifestyle and functional/material innovation.

With hosting as a core consumer lifestyle driver, this edition explores how people are redefining gathering at home through mood-based design, multifunctional tools, ease-driven entertaining habits, and products that deliver both comfort and creative expression.

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HomePage News, the leading B2B news and information media brand for the Home + Housewares industry is a service of the International Housewares Association.

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