Fashion Forecast Seminar – Organized by AEPC

Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) organized Fashion Forecast in association with WGSN, under export promotion activities. AEPC invited Ms. Kim Mannino Fashion, Consultant from WGSN, UK to conduct Fashion Forecast seminars for Spring/Summer 2018 and Autumn/Winter 2018-19 and beyond the session.

The faculty members and students of JD Institute of Fashion Technology were invited to attend the session. The session was informative and topics such as current and upcoming trends, key shapes, silhouettes, textures, fabrics, materials, and colors for Womenswear, Menswear, and Kidswear was discussed and explained about. The session also revolved around how global trends come together to help create commercially successful designs and collections for the season.

The key emphasis of the session was about the trends of Spring/Summer 2018 and Autumn/Winter 2018. According to WGSN, the themes that will be prevalent in Spring/Summer 2018 are Slow Futures, Kinship, Psychotropical and Youth Tonic. The themes that are forecasted for Autumn/Winter 2018 are Textiles forecast, Human nature, Dark wonder, and Worldhood.

About WGSN: WGSN is a leading fashion, trends forecasting intelligence service, which offers design, fashion, and retail professionals. The global creative intelligence needed to succeed with in-depth photographic reports on global fashion and color trends, industry news, trade fairs, retail destinations, major runway shows and cultural influences on trends and fashion, plus access to downloadable graphic, print and garment shape.