Fashion and colour trends

There are specialist fashion services which produce trend guides and forecast books to cover everything from colour, textile and yarn development and design, and print ideas through to styling for men’s, women’s, children’s outerwear, knitwear and innerwear. These studios sell their research and ideas each season. There are also reporting services that cover the shops and street fashions worldwide and can provide sketchbooks, photographs and swatches. All fibre companies use these fashion services and consultants to help produce their own predictions.

There has been a major growth in the use of fashion services, consultants and independent freelancers to augment a firms’ design studio, colour department and production staff. This has helped provide additional viewpoints, ideas, eyes and ears as well as hands in developing ranges. In forecasting colour and fashion trends the use of a wide variety of talents supervised by a design manager produces better and correct products for the market place..

Click here to see the latest trend information (you will need to register).