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Forecasting Services Revised
10/14/08
The
Library subscribes to a number of forecasting services for
womenswear, menswear, childrenswear, textiles, home products
and more.
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6th Floor, Periodicals Services |
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(212) 217-4380 |
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Online
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Print
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Forecast
Rules and Regulations
Magazines
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Online
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The following services are available through
Digital
Library to the FIT community.
FIT
username & password required for access.
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Stylesight
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Assess current trends, collaborate and analyze
trend forecasts and reporting for effective results during
a design cycle. Stylesight's image library contains over two million
images of Women's, Men's & Children's fashion as well as
Interiors including coverage of all Designer Collections from
New York, Paris, London, and Milan as well as Los Angeles, Sao
Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro and more. Includes fashion
images from streets & store windows of key fashion & interior
design stores in major US cities as well as Tokyo, Hong Kong
and the South of France. New content is uploaded daily.
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WGSN (Worth Global Style Network)
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WGSN is now the current, up-to-date version as used by
the industry.
WGSN (Worth Global Style
Network) provides forward trend analysis are creative
intelligence for executives, designers, marketers and
buyers. WGSN provides 24/7 access to future trends,
color palettes and real-time trend tracking. Access
commercial catwalk product direction, 1,500 brands per
season, over 15,000 original sketches and graphics, and
4,000,000 product images.
Includes daily international fashion news, technical
and licensing news, trade show calendars and reports, shop
window photos, apparel and textile trends, market
intelligence, graphics and more.
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Fashion Snoops
[FIT Campus only; no remote access]
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Fashion trends for girls, boys, junior women and young men.
News items, reports of runway shows and retail stores. Note:
Click on "Subscriber Login" button from Fashion Snoops web
page for access.
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DonegerOnline/Doneger Creative Services
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Online
trend forecasting for colors, fabrics and silhouettes for
womenswear. Note: Username & password
are required for access, both from campus and remotely. Logon
information is available through
Digital Library on Library web page.
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Print & CD-ROM Services
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The following
are available in Periodicals Services, 6th floor. They are
available only to the current FIT students and Faculty.
Currently valid FIT ID card required for
access. Use of these services is restricted to the
Forecast Area in Periodicals Services. Photocopying is not
permitted. Older forecasts are not restricted and may be used
by all Library visitors.
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Click on the
Year to see individual Print holdings for each season:
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& There |
This
venerable forecast service reports on trends in a funky, fresh
way that incorporates European high fashion into the American
sportswear sensibility. Separate items present color,
fabrications and silhouettes, including flats. CD-ROMs provide
extensive coverage of European runway shows, and shopping
guides provide direction to the most influential vendors in
several important cities. The service provides excellent
technical flats and an in depth comparison of European and
American runway shows.
Current Here & There Forecasts that have ‘Collections
Compared’ in their title are not a season behind, but rather
use photos from the last shows before they were printed and descriptions
of the current trends in stores now to forecast future
trends. All Here & There forecasts were merged into
Doneger Creative Services beginning with Spring/Summer 2009.
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| The
Color Association |
The
Color Association is the oldest trend
organization in the US. It issues a range of color
forecasts two years ahead of a selling season, publishes
newsletters, and also provides trend consultations and educational seminars.
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| Doneger Creative Services |
This
large, mass-market-oriented service was developed from Doneger’s
successful buying office and has since absorbed many older
forecasting services such as The Fashion Service and Pat
Tunsky Color. This service provides four seasons of color
(Spring/Summer, Transition, Fall/Winter and Holiday/Early
Spring) for use in the men’s, women’s and children’s markets.
Design Elements books cover runway shows, fabrics and
silhouettes for both men’s and women’s wear and a Forecast
book (women’s only) presents themes in combination with more
fabrics and silhouettes. Both sets of books are published
twice a year.
Here & There was merged into Doneger beginning with
Spring/Summer 2009; its color and fabric forecasts are now
published as Color Concept and Fabric Report, and Doneger's
own forecasts as Color Workshop, Design Concept, and Design
Workshop.
Click for DonegerOnline/Doneger Creative Services
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Peclers Paris |
This forecast service
offers a middle point of view between the more fashion-forward
European market and a matter-of-fact mass market presentation.
The Futur(s)
book forecasts universal design themes for items as diverse as
interiors and home products to automobiles and appliances with
swatches and photographs of materials and furnishing objects.
It includes a CD Rom and is published once a year. The Kids
2-12 books cover all aspects of young childrenswear. These
books provide themes illustrated with silhouettes,
photographs, swatches and color. They are published twice a
year.
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| Knit! Alert |
This service
presents attractively arranged flats, silhouettes, runway
photos and fabric samples classified into four thematic
groups and keyed to Pantone color palettes. A CD Rom is
included with each forecast, containing files that may be
manipulated in Photoshop or Illustrator. It is published
twice a year.
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| Style
Sight |
This
service reports on the New York, London, Milan and Paris
runway collections by presenting the images divided by item
classification. They consist of 23 classification books for
women’s wear and 11 for menswear. These include such hard to
find topics as lingerie, outerwear, and swimwear, but also
including specialty classifications such as embellishments and
print graphics. The Style Sight forecasts are not available
in print format after Spring/Summer 2006.
Click for Style Sight
or
click here for Style Sight (2)
If
one link does not work, try the other one.
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| Homeworks |
This service covers home design from the fundamentals of color and
theme through textile design all the way up to details such as
crystal, china and flatware design, bedding and bath ideas, as
well as boutique items such as frames, candle holders,
lighting and other
accessories. The Homeworks forecasts were discontinued after Fall/Winter 2007/2008.
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| Fast
Forward |
These forecasts are published by Doneger seven times a year and focuses on street
style reporting from influential cities around the world.
Youth- and junior-oriented, this title presents store-window
and street photographs from such cities as London, Barcelona,
Paris, Miami, New York, and Los Angeles. The Fast Forward
forecasts were discontinued after Spring/Summer 2007.
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Incorporated |
This forecast service is presented by the Cotton
Incorporated organization, and includes their trademark
fresh clear color, arranged in themes with mood pages and
fabrication ideas. While they primarily present women’s
silhouettes, the service also includes some men’s ideas as
well as some home furnishings images. The Cotton
Incorporated forecasts were discontinued after Spring/Summer
2006.
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Forecast Rules and
Regulations |
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All limited-use forecast
material must be viewed inside the restricted location.
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You must have a current FIT
ID to view the restricted forecasts. |
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You have 2 hours with each
forecast. |
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Students should put forecasts
into the returned forecast box before exiting the forecast area.
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There is no eating or drinking
in the forecast area. |
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Photo and other copying media
are not allowed in the forecast area. |
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Students may only trace and
take notes while dealing with the forecasts. |
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There is no talking to
students outside the area while viewing the forecast material. |
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Magazines with forecasting
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There are a
number of forecasting magazines that are available in Periodicals
Services. There are no restrictions on their use.
A list of these titles is available in Periodicals Services, 6th
floor.
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Most
Forecasts will use their home-made color swatches, feeling that it
is the best way to convey their themes. If you have Pantone
swatches, remember to match up the colors not the numbers.
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