LibGuides: Fashion: Forecasting

Forecasting

Color Forecasting for Fashion by Kate Scully; Debra Johnston Cobb
Call Number: TT507 .A84 2012

ISBN: 9781856698801

Publication Date: 2012

Get the color choice wrong and an entire range can stay on the racks. So, how do colors arrive on the runway or the sales floor and why do different companies all seem to choose similar colors each season? The answer lies in work of the huge color forecasting industry. This book looks at how the industry has developed and how it works before moving on to look at the skills a colour forecaster employs to draw a color palette together, often 18 to 24 months in advance of the selling season.
Fashion Forecasting by Kathryn McKelvey; Janine Munslow
Call Number: TT497 .M34 2008

ISBN: 9781405140041

Publication Date: 2008

Everyone in the fashion business needs to develop an essentialsurvival skill: how to interpret the intelligence provided by thefashion forecasting industry, to anticipate and respond to emergingtrends. Lavishly illustrated in full colour throughout, with clear andrelevant explanations of the processes involved, Fashion Forecasting is for fashion students and young professionals whoalready have acquired some fashion knowledge and skills.
Fashion Trends by Eundeok Kim, Ann Marie Fiore, Hyejeong Kim.
Call Number: HD9940 .K55 2011

ISBN: 9781847882936

Publication Date: 2011

Exploring the roles of both consumers and industry personnel as product developers, gatekeepers, and promoters of fashion trends, the book demonstrates how and why forecasting is vital to successful product and brand development. Fashion Trends Analysis and Forecasting covers a wide range of key topics, such as the impact of fashion consumption on the environment, economic development, and socio cultural change, as well as the impact of social responsibility and the digital consumer on current fashion trends.

The Fashion Forecasters by Regina Lee Blaszczyk; Ben Wubs
ISBN: 9781350017184

Publication Date: 2018

The fashion business has been collecting and analyzing information about colors, fabrics, silhouettes, and styles since the 18th century activities that have long been shrouded in mystery. The Fashion Forecasters is the first book to reveal the hidden history of color and trend forecasting and to explore its relevance to the fashion business of the past two centuries.

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