Given the speed of fashion trends, this one will assuredly cycle through.
"We are seeing a big '80s influence, but modernized for fall, " says Roseanne Morrison, fashion director at the Doneger Group, a source of global market trends and merchandising strategies for the retail and fashion industry.
Like most out-of-favor fashion trends, the clothes were coming out of the closet and back onto the street.
Trends are the cornerstone of contemporary fashion, and legal copying allows them to develop and spread.
Its skill in understanding fashion trends and the right level of mark-up on merchandise, as well as the proper level of inventory, and the intelligent staffing of stores makes the all the difference.
It's only the beginning of a new decade, but with social media the buzz topic on everybody's lips, might this be the age of the style blogger revered for personal fashion sense and an ability to make runway trends work in everyday life?
Only two years ago it missed some of the year's main fashion trends.
In 1997, along with my brother, we revolutionised the trends information business with the launch of Worth Global Style Network (WGSN), which went on to become "the fashion industry bible" (The Wall Street Journal), providing trend forecasting, market research and data for retailers, manufacturers and designers.
Perhaps most significant is the broader historical study they make of similar trends in popular culture, fashion, literature and politics.
The profitability of apparel retailers depends largely on their ability to correctly gauge fashion trends in each season.
Are the men and women on the bleeding edge of music, technology, fashion and entertainment merely extrapolating from existing trends?
My mother had always been ahead of fashion trends, but in this instance she'd recognized the talent of Patricia Field twenty years before the rest of the world.
Jacques van der Watt's highly conceptual brand, which values the form and functionality of clothing over the frivolity of trends, has for over a decade helped forge a contemporary identity for South African fashion.
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Which leads to the trickle-up theory: couture, being about lasting luxury instead of fashion fads, doesn't set trends but rather picks them up by osmosis, and last March the ready-to-wear shows were full to the brim with furs, from Ann Demeulemeester's cave-woman wraps to Amanda Wakeley's ermine jumper to Fendi's furs-that-didn't-look-like-furs (they looked like hobo patchwork coats, chunky grandma jumpers, and velvet skirts).
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