Identifying new trends

In todays lesson, we looked at different ways of identifying new trends, we came up with lots of different ways in a group discussion and wrote all out ideas on the board, we looked into it very briefly, so I plan to explore different ways of identifying new trends in more dept, so I have a clear understanding with the new trends, to make sure I find out all the relevant information I need to. to complete this project.

Alex also gave us a list of useful websites that we could use to look at trends, the websites were:
http://www.trendhunter.com/cool-hunting/category/Style-and-Fashion-Trends
http://www.trendstop.com
http://www.style.com
http://www.newdesigners.com/page.cfm/ID=1Artsthread
http://www.fashionmonitor.com
http://www.drapersonline.com
http://www.fashioninformation.com/index2.htm


I have not looked at all these websites yet, but I have been on the top two and I found them very useful and easy to use. I will go on all of them over the next week, so I can highlight the ones I find the best and the most useful to me.

Over the past week I have been looking at current trends, I have looked at colour trends for S/S 2013 and S/S 2014 and looked at what sort of materials or patterns will be in fashion, I have found all this researching very interesting and look forward to researching more for this project.