https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-a-fashion-forecaster Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:49:18 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-a-fashion-forecaster#post-962525 Sun, 23 Jun 2013 01:42:34 +0000 Archer 962525@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks, will read these when I get a chunk of time. No doubt I shall return. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-a-fashion-forecaster#post-962442 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 23:37:20 +0000 bj1111 962442@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Not just wintour.</p> <p>Great article in the nyt on ikram's influence <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/magazine/ikram-goldman-high-fashions-ambassador-from-the-midwest.html?pagewanted=all" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05.....wanted=all</a></p> <p>Linda fargo of bergdorfs as well, but less limelight.</p> <p>But, being influential is different from forecasting. </p> <p>Re cyclical fashion. See laver and his law.<br /> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Laver" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Laver</a> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-a-fashion-forecaster#post-962197 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 12:42:35 +0000 Archer 962197@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>ETA: what are some of the 'would be' trends that have just not made it and why do some fail? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-a-fashion-forecaster#post-962195 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 12:38:51 +0000 Archer 962195@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Having now read about Faith Popcorn, well spotted bj111, that was what I was getting at I.e. The Truman Show. She is called a futurist as if she were Nostrodamus but she is behind the camera: future forecasting, like The Devil in Prada.</p> <p> The Anna Wintour story makes it look very much as if she (as caste) decides, from some personal marketing aesthetic, what is to be successful/desirable and she tells the designers what to create. </p> <p>The cyclic nature of the last 100 years fashion can't be random, can it? Can we see men returning to wearing frilly bloomers to do serious business talking? The cycle is ever decreasing. Must be about time to start throwing in a sartorial neckline again soon? </p> <p>I love fashion as Art but, for us commoners at least, we are the market, the gullible, insatiable market that generates unbelievable profits.<br /> Just a rant on pet topic, but you can blame OldMT for starting that. Long live fashion, heil.<br /> Angie, are there any resonance with your experiences here? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-a-fashion-forecaster#post-961214 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 00:12:01 +0000 bj1111 961214@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Have you read anything about faith popcorn? I wonder how she's doing as a trend forecaster in the post social media world </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-a-fashion-forecaster#post-961193 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 23:36:14 +0000 Anonymous 961193@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Are you thinking global trends or local trends? On global trends, I am thinking there is so much info online that you could really run a service out of tracking online media and street style blogs. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-a-fashion-forecaster#post-960960 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 17:39:21 +0000 Anonymous 960960@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>It's easy for this area. I just see what Angie features. It takes an average of two years to become a style seen commonly on the street here. Example: booties are beginning to catch on for the average shopper. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-a-fashion-forecaster#post-960952 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 17:34:53 +0000 rachylou 960952@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I would get out a lot. Out on the street. Movie theatres, ice cream shops, business parks, malls, the electronics stores (like Best Buy and the Apple Store), gyms, the grocery stores from 6-8 pm, Red Box machines, 7-11s, toy stores. To see what people, young and old, are "feeling." And I'd pay attention to the news - war, the economy, local and abroad; those things play into how people are feeling.</p> <p>And I'd crawl Facebook to see the pics people post of themselves.</p> <p>AND then I'd compare what designers are doing (and have done, since there's lag time between designers and the street, and the ideas exchange goes both ways) to what people are wanting.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-a-fashion-forecaster#post-960941 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 17:16:16 +0000 Angie 960941@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm not sure what you mean, Archer - but I'd love to know :)</p> <p>I'm a fashion forecaster of sorts and share information as I see it with YLF readership - as a professional. I talk about all the trends! 99.99999% of the time I at least like them when worn in a particular way. There are SOOOOO few trends that don't make it through my style filter. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-a-fashion-forecaster#post-960750 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:41:21 +0000 Archer 960750@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Initiated by oldmsthrifty's thread. Most seem to find something to suit them and styles that don't each trend season. If you were forming a fashion forecasters company what would you do to to ensure you covered the range and trends? </p>