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An opportunity to keep abreast with trends in fashion

Staff Reporter

Chic-looking website offers just that and much more

Trendy: Photographs of models sporting designer clothes as uploaded on the website.

Bangalore: Want to check out the latest in fashion trends and milestones? Or read fashion analyses only available in high-end magazines?

Then log on to the WGSN portal and you will find yourself browsing through the trends and milestones in the field apart from fashion analyses.

In a black, chic-looking site, lie the secrets of design inspiration, consumer and cultural trends, and exclusive street reports from around the world.

The WGSN trademark trend forecasting includes product specifics, colour, silhouette, shape, styling, detail, textile and fabric direction.

10-year-history

In the 10 years that “WGSN – Creative Intelligence” has been around, it has catered to 35,000 professionals in 60 countries, a number that is still growing.

An online subscription services that offers analysis, inspiration and information to the apparel, style and retail industries, WGSN offers market insight and competitive tracking among others for members.

As you log into the WGSN portal, you can find 22,000 catwalk photos per season, and see the coverage of 140 trade shows per year. Updates about the international fashion scene are covered and retail-reporting with 1,20,000 store pictures are put onto the website each year.

As many as 14,000 original, high-resolution sketches and fully downloadable graphics are put onto the website.

Their 250-member team of researchers, designers, analysts and trendspotters believe they know what is needed to stay ahead, and understand consumer behaviour in every sector right from women’s wear to men’s wear, textiles, accessories and more.

And not just that, for the 10 years that it has been around, there is an old enough archive to look through just to keep a tab on the way trends have come, gone and resurrected themselves. Visit www.wgsn.com for more details.

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