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Vulnerability, Symphony, Reverence and Pleasure: Four key trends driving SS21 fashion

Amsterdam - Biannual trend seminar Appletizer was back in Amsterdam last week for the first time in 2020. During the first half of the day-long event, Jenna Guarascio, director of content strategy at New York-based trend forecasting company Fashion Snoops, shared the latest insights into key consumer trends driving SS21 style. Here is a rundown...

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Top consumer trends that brands should know about

Amsterdam - To keep up with the head-spinning speed at which the fashion industry and wider retail industry is changing, brands need to keep up-to-date with the latest trends and the consumer behaviours that are driving them. Earlier this month, David Shah, owner of Metropolitan Publishing, the publishing house behind Pantone View Concept, spoke...

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Nature-inspired colors set to dominate Spring/Summer 2020

Mother Nature knows best. Even though trend forecasters Christine Boland, Tony Bannister and Christine Foden come from different parts of the world (Holland, Australia and the UK, to be exact), they all came to the same conclusion: nature-inspired color palettes will dominate fashion and interior design in the Spring/Summer of 2020. The more...

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Lidewij Edelkoort: ‘Folklore is becoming a trend; the tunic is a universal piece of clothing’

Amsterdam - In forecasting the trends for summer 2020, Lidewij Edelkoort follows the script of her previously published Anti-fashion manifest. Slowing down, connecting, humanity and equality; these subjects were all covered in ‘Li’s’ biannual Appletizer trend seminar in Amsterdam’s Muziekgebouw on the IJ river. The fashion guru was unwavering on...