Fashion Forecasting
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Description
Fashion Forecasters work with designers, apparel brands, advertisers, and media organizations, as an integral part of the rapidly changing fashion industry. With Fashion Forecasting, Sixth Edition, you will learn how to anticipate emerging trends and how to prepare and present your own fashion forecast. Chapters on different fashion eras and world cultures show you influences on fashion innovation past and present, so that you can spot those of the future. The Sixth Edition is the most focused, dynamic, and applicable edition to date. This edition includes coverage of the impact of pandemic and global supply chain disruptions on fashion forecasting, trends, and the overall fashion industry. New box features include profiles of forecasting companies and forecasting activities to help prepare students for the job market. Features and case studies have been broadened to include all new examples.
New to this Edition:
-All New Trend Creators profiles spotlight individuals outside the fashion industry who have been highly influential on the direction of modern fashion
-Newly named chapter Street Styles demonstrates how street fashion mixes current trends and individual expression
-Extended coverage of the most vital influences on new trends have been updated and belonging, fairness, and awareness is concurrent throughout
-Expanded updates to chapters on “Consumers” and “Sales and Strategy,” to provide specific examples to the business of fashion forecasting and are highly relevant to future fashion industry professionals
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Instructor Resources
-Instructor's Guide provides suggestions for using the text in the classroom and planning the course with sample syllabi, a test bank, and supplemental assignments
-PowerPoint® presentations include images from the book and provide a framework for lecture and discussion
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Part One: Forecasting Frameworks
1. Introduction to Forecasting
2. Innovation and Novelty
3. Fashion Forecasting Theories
4. Forecasting Methods
Part Two: Forecasting Influences
5. Fashion Eras
6. World Cultures
7. Street Styles
8. The Arts and Popular Culture
Part Three: Forecasting in Action
9. Color and Textile Forecasting
10. Inspiration, Theme and Mood
11. Consumers
12. Sales and Strategy
Glossary
Bibliography
List of Credits
Index
Product details
| Published | Oct 01 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 6th |
| Pages | 296 |
| ISBN | 9798765104019 |
| Imprint | Fairchild Books |
| Illustrations | 125 colour illus |
| Dimensions | 280 x 215 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |












