Stylesight news and archive

WGSN expands consultancy services

Trend forecasting group WGSN is expanding its consultancy services with the launch of WGSN Mindset,which offers bespoke consumer insight and market strategy solutions services to style-led retailers, brands, designers and supply chains. The service merges the consumer insight expertise from the Mindset Brazil business, which joined the WGSN...

Design

WGSN merges with Stylesight to create new platform

Online trend service WGSN is relaunching on August 4, combining the“best” of the current WGSN site with trend forecasting and technology tool Stylesight, to create a “super-platform”. The new WGSN platform has been designed around technology developed by Stylesight, the service which WGSN acquired last year, and will offer “new features, richer...

Design

WGSN acquires Stylesight, Inc.

WGSN announced the the successful completion of the acquisition of Stylesight, Inc, a US-based content and technology solution for creative professionals, in a press release sent out Friday. The acquisition included the merger of their respective operations in the US, as well as any operations abroad for undisclosed sum. WGSN plans to include...

Fashion

Winter 2014: minimalism versus theatrical fashion

'A decoration overload' is how trend firm Stylesight describes fall/winter 2014. As a reaction to minimalism, fashion will be dominated by folk prints, reptile motifs and silhouettes of Russian matrushka dolls. But there is also still a longing for quiet. "We're seeing a revolution of the introvert." According to chief creative officer Isham...

Design

Stylesight announces Student Graphics winner

Stylesight, the industry’s leading global content and technology solution for professionals in the style, fashion and design sectors, has announced the winners of its Fall/Winter 13 Student Prints and Graphics Competition. Stylesight hosts the international contest seasonally to support and share emerging artists with the industry and introduce...

Fashion

Day in the Life of ....a trend forecaster

In this series, FashionUnited brings you a ‘Day in the Life’ feature talking to insiders from every different walk of the fashion industry. Here they reveal how they got started, work on a day to day basis, and why they wouldn’t swap their fashion choice for anything. Today we are featuring Isham Sardouk, Senior Vice president of new Trend...

Design

Stylesight partners with Beyond Retro

Stylesight.com, the industry-leading global content and technology provider for professionals in the style, fashion and design sectors, has signed a new content partnership with Beyond Retro. The new partnership with the UK and Northern European vintage retailer will enable Stylesight to expand upon its leading image library, and it plans to...

Fashion

Private VIP parties are new way to shop

With a seemingly never ending shift currently occurring on the fashion landscape and new sites launching almost per day offering consumers new ways to shop, physical stores and high street chains are ever suffering at the hands of faster, more convenient ways to make purchases. Retailers and designers have now come up with a new and more...

Design

Bubble London unveils seminars

Kids tradeshow, Bubble London is extending its ‘Look Who’s Talking’ seminar programme, after a successful launch last season. A highlight of the programme will be an exclusive seminar from global trend specialists Stylesight, who will unveil its new children’s trend forecasting presentation, which will not be held anywhere else during 2012...

Fashion

Trend forecasting sites take off

A new fashion ‘trend’ is suddenly top topic on the lips of insiders in our new forward thinking digital days. WGSN, (Worth Global Style Network), is a trend forecasting website with more than 38,000 users including Armani and Walmart. And, at the end of January, EMAP revealed WGSN created £40m of revenues in 2010, up by 5pc on the previous year...

Design

Stylesight opens headquarters in London

Stylesight, the leading online provider of trend forecasting for the fashion and style industries, has announced the opening of its European Headquarters in London as a direct result of significant success and expansion in recent years. Stylesight currently has offices around the world including a North American Headquarters in New York City, as...

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Stylesight Prints & Graphics Competition

For SS12, global provider of trend content, tools and technology for the fashion and style industries, Stylesight announces the eighth consecutive season of its Student Prints & Graphics Competition. Stylesight hosts the international contest to support and share emerging artists with the industry, and introduce Prints & Graphics to Stylesightʼs...