Trend Spotting: Fashion Forecasting and Related Sites

To be informed about fashion enough to formulate ideas about trends for designing or dressing these sites will give you an eye on fashion on the runways hours after it happens and services that will give some on-line insight about upcoming trends. Most shopping sites will breakdown trend information for the latest season or the one we are going into as some of these sites have and others are trend services available to the industry for purchase with trends being forecasted up to 3 seasons ahead of time. Example, if we are now January 2005, most services are providing trend books for Spring 2006, and some will have previews for Fall 2006 by March 2005.

Fashion Forecasting Services

http://www.fashionforecastservices.com.au/index.html (Agent in Australia with excellent listing of various services)
http://www.promostylamericas.com/products.htm
http://www.espwired.com/
http://www.dcipherfm.com/
http://www.jenkins-reports.com/
http://www.kjaer-global.com/
http://www.nellyrodi.com/
http://www.avomark-conseil.com
http://www.peclersparis.com/index2.html
http://www.fashionsnoops.com
http://www.infomat.com/publications/infpu0001576.html (A listing of the top 25 trend forecasting services to link to)
http://www.wgsn.com/public/home/html/base.html
http://www.trendcentral.com/trends/default.asp
http://www.mudpie.co.uk (baby+children)
http://www.snapfashun.com/reportwest.html#
http://www.modeinfo.be/Pages/Homepage.php
http://www.doneger.com/aboutdcs/DCS_About_Home.asp
http://www.tobereport.com

Colour Services

http://www.pantone.com/shop/shop.asp?idArticle=349
http://www.scotdic.com/
http://www.thecolorbox.com
http://www.colormarketing.org/

Print and Pattern Services or Show

www.marciedesigns.com *new listing!
http://www.thefashioncollective.com/profile.html
http://www.printsourcenewyork.com/about.cfm

Runway Shows

http://www.nymetro.com/fashion/fashionshows/
http://fashionwatch.com/2004/december/
http://www.fashionlines.com/2004/feb/home.php
http://www.fashionfromspain.com/icex/cda/controller/pageGen/0,2941,1549487_3201730_3203399_0,00.html http://www.lerage.com/
http://www.modaonline.it/default_eng.asp
http://www.catwalking.com/html_docs/events.html (runway show dates)

Fashion Forecasting Services Magazines

http://www.view-publications.com/

Textile Site

http://www.journaldutextile.com/gb/03.htm

Fashion Forecasting Services On Line

http://www.fashioninformation.com/index.htm
http://www.jamesgirone.com (children)

Men's

http://men.style.com/fashion

Children’s

http://www.tuttibella.com/index.html
http://www.babystyle.com
http://www.childrensbusiness.com/

Magazines On Line

http://www.wwd.com/
http://www.dnrnews.com/ (men’s)
http://www.style.com/
http://www.vogue.co.uk/

Apparel Textile Sites

http://www.cottoninc.com/

Fashion Reports Online

http://www.lookonline.com/blogger.html
http://www.fashionwiredaily.com/headlines.weml
http://www.fashionoffice.org
http://www.fuk.co.uk/
http://www.focusonstyle.com/home.htm
http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/shopping/fashion/spring05/9912/

Runway and Fashion News by Video

http://webcast.tdctrade.com/

Fashion Sites

http://www.ftv.com/home/default.asp
http://www.fashiontelevision.com/episodes/01%5F2005/
http://www.fashion.net/
http://www.fashioncenter.com/index.html
http://www.infomat.com (information central for all dates etc)

Fashion Events: Textile shows

http://www.premierevision.fr/en/home/home.html
http://ny.fabricshow.com/fabricshowny/V41/index.cvn?id=10000 (The IFFE)
http://www.messefrankfurt.com.hk
http://www.pittimmagine.com/_ENG/index2.html

Sites of List of Links for Various Areas of Fashion Industry

http://www.nccu.edu/artsci/human/textile.htm
http://www.thealexanderreport.com/categories/index.html

Cool Shops

http://www.colette.fr/index.php
http://www.girlshop.com/shop/girls/default.asp?
http://www.net-a-porter.com/cgi-bin/NETAPORTER.storefront (Check out "Runway" and "Magazine" for trend info, in the side bar menu.)

Cool Fashion Forward Sites

http://www.dresslab.com/
http://www.themode.tv/20040311170004685/25de773d8b3fc90e80614c31194f6769/en/IE5/new/findex.php

The Fédération Française de la Couture

http://www.modeaparis.com