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Forecasting Services   Revised 03/03/08 The Library subscribes to a number of forecasting services for womenswear, menswear, childrenswear, textiles, home products and more. Building E 6th Floor, Periodicals Services Phone (212) 217-4380

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Online Services The following services are available through Digital Library to the FIT community.  FIT username & password required for access.   Stylesight  or  Stylesight (2)  If one link does not work properly for you, try the other one. 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.   WGSN-EDU (Worth Global Style Network)    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.   Fashion Snoops [FIT Campus only; no remote access]   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.   DonegerOnline/Doneger Creative Services 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.   Here & There Forecast Online   Online trend forecasting service reports on trends in a funky, fresh way that incorporates European high fashion into the American sportswear sensibility. NOTE: Here & There Forecast Online is unavailable until further notice. Top of Page Print & CD-ROM Services 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. Click on the Year to see individual Print holdings for each season:   FALL/WINTER 2008/2009 2007/2008 2006/2007 2005/2006 2004/2005   SPRING/SUMMER 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 Here & 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. Click for information about Here & There online.   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.   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   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.   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.   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.   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.   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.   Cotton 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.   Top of Page Forecast Rules and Regulations All limited-use forecast material must be viewed inside the restricted location. You must have a current FIT ID to view the restricted forecasts. You have 2 hours with each forecast. Students should put forecasts into the returned forecast box before exiting the forecast area. There is no eating or drinking in the forecast area. Photo and other copying media are not allowed in the forecast area. Students may only trace and take notes while dealing with the forecasts. There is no talking to students outside the area while viewing the forecast material.     Top of Page Magazines with forecasting information 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.  Click here for a list of these magazines. Top of Page Forecast Notes 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. Top of Page Forecast ORIENTATIONS Orientations on using forecast services may be requested by FIT faculty for their classes. Information and an online request form can be found at Bibliographic Instruction / Orientations / Tours of the Library. Top of Page