PACKAGING TRENDS

Packaging Trend Forecasts

Paper & Packaging Trends

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F-trend’s subscription offer covers market-leading trend forecasting for fashion and the creative industries, design validation and retail analytics. Our customers you are a designer, buyer, merchandiser, marketer or strategist, we have a solution for everyone working in design and lifestyle products.

Packaging Direction

Who We Help?

F-trend works across the industry to help our clients uncover ever-changing consumer and market trends, from macro attitude changes and consumer insights to detailed product and lifestyle updates. Our experts develop actionable reports on everything you need to know, including:
– Consumer's behavior and attitude, from baby boomers to Gen Z
– Insight into new ways of living
– Region and demographic-specific interpretation
– Key trends across product categories and key moments 
– Lifestyle forecast 12-18 months ahead of the season
PACKAGING TRENDS

Industry Specific Features

F-trend's subscription services cover in-depth reporting on the following categories: 
– Consumer insights and lifestyle shifts
– Evolving consumer attitudes to sustainability, luxury, and experience
– Packaging and design forecasts, 12-18 months ahead of the season
– Gifting: key items and analysis, by occasion and by season
Intimate Trend forecast

Intimate Trend forecast

INTIMATE & SWIM FORECAST

RIGHT DESIGN TO RIGHT CONSUMERS

Create better sell better and Target better, with F-TREND’s thorough coverage of and insight into Intimates & Swim. With micro and long-term trends from early color forecasts, silhouettes, details, materials, and prints, to global coverage of retail, trade shows, and emerging brands, F-trend reveals the future of innerwear.

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HOW WE HELP

F-trend understands the market, its lifecycle and the necessities of our customers. Working across the industry, our global team of trend experts develops and deliver actionable stories on everything you need to know.

– Forecasts deliver manufacturers and factories the information they need 2+ years ahead of the season.

– Design Capsules and Design Developments filled with downloadable prints and CADs.

– Category Updates provide essential design direction for commercial product development and give buyers an early view of the must-have items of the season, one year ahead of retail.

– Trend Alerts give fast fashion clients the short, digestible and actionable information they need now so they can stay on-trend with shorter lead times.

Our Users

F-trend’s report supports leading Intimates & Swim brands across the business, including retailers, brands, designers, manufacturers, and leaders
2024 ADVANCED FASHION TREND FORECASTING LIVE ONLINE COURSE

Class Schedule:(Saturday-Sunday) Weekend

Class Duration:8 Weeks + Practice Session

Mode:                        Online

Fee:                            $195  

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COURSE CERTIFICATE

Upon successfully finishing the comprehensive Advanced Trends Forecasting Series, consisting of 7 Modules (including 5 concept building modules and 2 Practice modules), you will be awarded a prestigious Certificate of Completion. This valuable credential can be proudly displayed on your CV or LinkedIn profile, demonstrating your expertise and commitment to professional growth.

Curriculum Overview

The F-Trends Trend forecasting course helps you to explore trends, create accurate forecasts, develop your scenarios, and sharpen your strategic foresight skills

Learn - Interact - Apply

At F-trend we have created a high level of professional trend forecasting online course to enhance your skill in the creative world of the fashion industry. You will not just learn but also apply and practice. The course will enable you to become a key player in the fashion industry as a marketer, strategist, and creator with the application of an accurate future Trend.

Each module is independent, but jointly all modules will facilitate you to develop professional-level trend forecasting abilities, as well as industry-standard practices to map the future in ways that are significant, practical, trustworthy, and inspirational. The future, as we’ll learn, isn’t a foregone conclusion, but a place where intelligently developed forecasts can help us to imagine, build and deploy better tomorrows for everybody.

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Who Should Join?

F-trend's insight has been used by brands including SAMSUNG, GODREJ, ABOF, TITAN, and many more

The F-Trend's Trend Academy brings a professional-level educational journey and experience for MBAs, creatives, strategic future insight teams, and corporate employees who are eager to sharpen their existing skills, or for students and industry freshers who want to make a career in trend forecasting, marketing, and branding Industry.

Trend Insight- Product development - Branding and Practice

COURSE BREAKDOWN

CONSUMERISM

  1. DECODING SOCIETY AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR
  2. Left Brain VS Right Brain
  3. Evolution of consumption
  4. Future consumer landscape and culture shifts
  5. The rise of meaningful consumption
  6. Happiness Consumption Cycle
  7. Lifestyle navigator
  8. Analyzing Desires, Behaviours and Motivator
  9. Extracting Values and opportunities
  10. VALS™

TREND FORECASTING

  1. From facts to feelings
  2. Connecting the dots
  3. Rethinking human decision making
  4. From 2D to 4D thinking explained
  5. Soft analysis and core analysis
  6. Scanning the Findings
  7. Synthesizing potential futures in Fashion
  8. Multidimensional Forecasting approaches
  9. Balancing analysis with Informed emotion
  10. Trend Mapping Past Present and future
  11. The Focusing Illusion

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

  1. New Product Development in fashion
  2. NPD strategies
  3. Idea Screening
  4. 4P AND 6P MODEL OF PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
  5. Single NPD module
  6. Two fold NPD module
  7. NPD SWOT Analysis
  8. Product Trend SWOT analysis
  9. The Critical Path
  10. The Fashion Industry Dynamics
  11. More..

FASHION FORECASTING

  1. Soft analysis and core analysis
  2. Scanning the Findings
  3. Synthesizing potential futures
  4. Quantifiable and Qualitative factors
  5. Sales forecast, aggregation, exogenous variables, and Seasonality
  6. Fast fashion, Tradition fashion business model, and trend forecast
  7. Development of fashion forecasts
  8. Color forecast, Color cycle, color

FASHION FORECASTING

  1. Brainstorming,
  2. F-trend PVP method
  3. Scenario Planning in fashion forecasting.
  4. Lifestyle Navigator, key message and desire analysis
  5. Fashion Product Lifecycle
  6. Why- Now and Next
  7. Error Identification in final forecast
  8. Fashion Forecasting Steps

Application & Case studies

  1. Create your first Toolkit
  2. Trend Index and Trend wheel development
  3. Scenario development
  4. Trend Forecast Application
  5. Product development application

Case Studies

  1. Five case studies on trend development
  2. Five case studies on fashion forecast

Course Outcomes And Objectives

Trend forecasting is fundamental and foremost staying ahead of the curve by understanding consumer behavior, design analysis, market, and retail insights. F-trend forecasters create insightful reports and tools for your businesses, their customers, retailers, and brands. Learn from the best in the industry today. During the 8 weeks fashion forecasting course you will:

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Build a strong framework of best practices, strategies, and innovations that affect your future business planning.
 
Drive sales and brand growth with bold, accurate trend predictions for your market.
 
Plan forecasts that are structured to have many uses and consider the business, brand, and external headwinds.
 
Develop the best insight into forecasting’s hidden effect on cross-functional teams and the customer.
 
Discover new opportunities: Deep dive into the consumer trends you need to know now, and quickly start implementing them into your business to answer a specific problem or simply develop consumer-centric thinking.
 
Design a Trend-Driven culture: Catalyze a creative culture, and empower your team to go further. Implementing our method and tools, you’ll walk away empowered to lead your innovation sessions, again and again
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INDUSTRY WISE COVERAGE

COVERAGE

Whether you work at a Clothing Industry, an Advertising Agency, a Fashion Retailer or in marketing, F-TREND can help you to know what is Next for the better Tomorrow.

F-trend is known expert,  we provide you an online subscription and advisory solutions to clients from over 10 industries across every stage of creative, design and product development; from concept through to trading.

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TRENDSIGHT BESPOKE CONSULTANCY

A PERSONALIZED TREND INFORMATION THAT MATTERS TO YOUR BRAND DNA

WHAT IS TRENDSIGHT

F-trend works with you to discover your brand's next growth opportunity by the use of our expertise of our trend team, our matchless future insight on upcoming trends and our in-house data analytics.

We help you stay relevant to now by understanding what trends mean for you, when and how to act on them.

Whatever industry you work in, you need to look through the lens of future to ensure your brand stays relevant in the next 5 years. In order to achieve this, it is key to know the early insights into changes in consumer's behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs, as well as any shifts in culture, economy, and technology, are key.

These changes are spotted through macro trends. We asses them in what we eat, where we live and how we connect with each other. And whether we’re aware of it or not, they dictate the products consumers want and the services they crave. Connecting the various trends among future macro trends is a key skill to master to spot your brand's next growth opportunity.

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How does F-TREND’s trend Insight apply to my market?

The biggest question we ask at F-trend: “Is this trend right for your brand, given your brand culture and targetted consumer?”. If yes, you need to know the right when to act on it.

OUR PROCESS

RETAIL DIRECTION AND OPPORTUNITIES

Identify a new market or inspire your design and marketing teams with an itinerary custom-made for your needs.

CONSUMER TREND AND FORECAST

It is all about your consumer, yet many brands start with their product or category. Alternatively, other businesses struggle to align their teams around their consumer needs and dreams. We can bring your consumer to life and ensure all your teams know who they are, what they want and fall in love with them.

Creative and innovation workshops:

We are often asked to deliver these workshops to inspire your team and develop their creative thinking. We take trends and big data alongside your brief to co-create alternative solutions together.

TAILORED TREND DIRECTIONS AND REPORTS

Whether you are targetting a new market or restructuring your business, we can create an ad-hoc trend report or deliver an in-house presentation for your market. You can rely on our expert. Whether you are targetting a new market or restructuring your business, we can create an ad-hoc trend report or deliver an in-house presentation for your market. You can rely on our expert

TREND TRANSLATION INTO PRODUCT

Build a solid understanding of how global trends translate locally applying brand and market filters to create commercially viable products through these 1 to 5-day workshops

RETAINED CONSULTANCIES

Have the F-trend TRENDSIGHT team members as an extension of your team. Involve them in your design and marketing processes, involve them in your executive meetings to spark your best thinking or obtain research about your most pressing issues

WE ARE ALL ABOUT FINDING THE RIGHT ANSWER

How does my marketing strategy need to evolve to capture the attention of Gen Z?

The most successful brands in the world are consumer-centric. With early insights into shifts in consumer behaviors and attitudes from all over the world, we are able to give you global macro trends as well as local nuances. We work with brands to further understand their core audience, grow into new ones and support you to have your internal teams to ruthlessly focus around their needs and worlds. 

Who are the key players in the athleisure/sportswear market?

With our network of trend professionals across the world, we are able to accurately spot shifts in trends across technology, culture, arts and, of course, consumers. By connecting different macro trends together, we are able to spot emerging new markets and categories as well as new players popping up. We know what your existing, new, unexpected competitors and partners look like. 

What does my target consumers look like now and in 5 years?

With access to F-TREND predictions at five years and retail and consumer perception data today, we are able to work with you to understand what this means for your target consumer.

I want to enter the Indian market, what are the key consumer behaviors I need to know?

When you subscribe F-TREND, you get an understanding of global shifts and local knowledge. Our global Trend experts come from a variety of different cultures and backgrounds and all have a truly internal experience.

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HOW WE HELP YOU

F-trend analyzes the NEXT big thing- The future macro trends but filter them through your brand and ambitions.

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Review and revise your brief:

We would love to listen to your problem and plans. We start with you and your challenge or vision. 

Start with future trends:

Macro trends across industries at 2, 5 and 10 years are the starting point to build the context of our work together. Substantial trend shifts in consumers, technology, culture, design, and retail will change your playing field. 

Analyze your market and context:

Zooming in the market in terms of consumer you want to serve gives you an understanding of potential new and future growth opportunities. 

Validating through our expert network:

We combine the diverse industry knowledge to validate the trend to help you identify the trends that are most meaningful to you.

Supplement with big data:

Alongside insights into key trends, we rely on our retail, product, and consumer big data today.

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REAL TIME, CREATIVE AND MARKET INTELLIGENCE FOR STUDENTS BENEFITS OUR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM

Appreciated by the leading academic institutions globally, F-TREND enables students and faculty continuous, updated, direct access to our commercial website. F-TREND allows universities to teach various disciplines of design, marketing, and trend forecasting, enabling them to apply creative and market intelligence.

Seasonal Work Shop

We periodically organize the workshop for the students to get most out of the program.

Interaction

Student and our experts could interact through email and get answered their queries

Seasonal Webinar

Apart from the workshop we also offer free access to our webinar to the students.

Unlimited Acess

F-trend proffers unlimited and unrestricted access to students under this program.

F-TREND ACADEMY

F-trend not just provides fashion forecasting services to educational institutes, we bring an advanced fashion forecasting course based on our PVP methodology curated for students to learn from our exceptional methodology that is accurate and authorized by numerous fashion schools.

F-Trend Workshop

Bespoke workshops and trend presentations

PAST ATTENDIES

Our experts in India, London and Asia-Pacific have travelled the globe, presenting to more than 50+ leading organisations. From the worlds of design, marketing, strategy, innovation, consumer research and beyond, Check out our few clients

F-TREND TREND PRESENTATIONS

F-trend's future insight, Trend presentations, and trend workshops are designed to help you achieve you and your team with the insights and strategic thinking required to answer tomorrow's most compelling issues.

Induce debate, challenge thinking, and generate opportunities by booking The F-trend's most trusted presenters to deliver a profound trend presentation or trend workshop to uncover new areas for growth.

F-trend delivers visually capturing multimedia presentations that demonstrate precisely how future trends, markets, and consumer thinking can be applied to your category and your brand.

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Online Presentations

Looking for ways to engage and motivate your team from the comfort of your own home? Our virtual presentations give you the tools to inspire your business with a thorough insight into our foresight and future trends.

Please choose from our curated selection of trend presentations, with topics such as fashion Trend, retail, and Branding, or brief us for a bespoke presentation adapted to your business's needs and delivered in this new way of digital working and connectivity. 

Get in touch below to book an online presentation, and make sure that your time spent working from home is intellectually as well as commercially inspiring.

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Bespoke Presentations

Bespoke Presentations

Are you looking for a tailored trend presentation or workshop? F-trend's bespoke presentations enable you to experience our in-depth trend insight and future trends through the lens of your own business.

F-trend helps your brand with our expert analysis suitable to your product and targeted market. We create bespoke presentations to suit the needs of your business. F-trend brings data analysis, consumer insights, and global trends to help you target to right people

To share your brief or to discuss dates and bookings, get in touch below.

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Retail Trend Mapping

What We Do

F-TREND Helps retail industry to find the best product every 25 days. We help you to understand the gap between current stock offering vs the actual demands.

Consumer Trend

Ftrend Identifies, and decodes the key consumer trends and its application to retail and fashion. Our in-depth consumer analysis helps the retailers to offer the best product to the customers.

BEST PRODUCT AND STYLE

F-trend helps retailer identify the best product and style to offer their customer. Our 360-degree analysis based on differences between the current offering and the actual need.

Trend Validation

Through our trend Validation retailers could find the product that is not performing well and the changes to make

ECOMMERCE SOLUTIONS

Our In-depth market study helps Ecommerce industry identify the seasonal trend as well as the latest emerging trend based on potential market, print, style, and color scheme

Creative coaching

Our Advisory team brings the expertize you need to bring the best product to your consumer. We work with you closely to map your market offering for each season.

25 days Trend Guide

F-trend brings buyers specific product guide on every 25 days to help E-commerce and retail industry have the best product in the stock.

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FASHION FORECASTING SERVICE

19 Clothing And Accessory Categories

MEN + WOMEN

Active wear               Beachwear                           Knitwear

Coats                       Jackets                                 Dresses

Trouser                    Shorts                                   Accessories

Tops                        Shirt                                      Footwear

Skirt                        Jumpsuits                              Denim

Indian Suits Sets      Salwar and Churidar

Saree                      Kurta and Kurti

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ON TREND FOR COMMERCIAL SUCCESS

F-TREND brings the trend solutions and services to ensure you have the right product, in the right place, at the right time to maximise sales and ROI. Our forward looking analysis helps you to reduce time and cost, increase the accuracy of key product decisions, and increase your profit margin.

Through our True Trend Validation, we continually test and monitor the relevance of our major forecasts and themes and track the growth profile of emerging trends, reclassifying them as major themes and increasing coverage as they gain traction enable you to gain first to market advantage within your category.

The Validated trends

THE VALIDATED TREND

F-TREND’s fashion trend intelligence enables designer, brands, and retailers in better decision-making from concept to creation improving profitability and driving top-line growth.

  • Validating their product direction
  • Saving them time and improving productivity
  • Strengthening collaboration and information sharing
  • Informing new product lines or extensions
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FULL WEBSITE ACCESS TRIAL

Embark on a 30-day trial journey for a mere $199. This opportunity allows you to explore our offerings before making the decision to invest in our annual membership access priced at $8,500. Imagine the possibilities that await during this trial period—a chance to experience firsthand the wealth of benefits our platform has to offer.

Women's Subscription

  1. Women Catwalk analysis
  2. Real Time Runway Gallery
  3. Global Street Trend analysis and Gallery
  4. Tradeshow analysis
  5. Seasonal forecast
  6. Accessory forecast
  7. footwear forecast
  8. Bags Forecast
  9. Denim Forecast
  10. Intimate Trends & Forecasts
  11. Consumer Lifestyle forecast
  12. Color Forecast
  13. Product Category wise Forecast
  14. 2 Million+ Images
  15. More than 7k Reports archive

 

Men's Subscription

  1. Men Catwalk analysis
  2. Real-Time Runway Gallery
  3. Men's Global Street Trend Analysis and Gallery
  4. Tradeshow analysis
  5. Seasonal forecast
  6. Accessory forecast
  7. footwear forecast
  8. Bags Forecast
  9. Denim Forecast
  10. Underwear Trends & Forecasts
  11. Consumer Lifestyle forecast
  12. Color Forecast
  13. Product Category-wise Forecast
  14. 2 Million+ Images
  15. More than 7k Reports archive

 

Full Site Access (M+W)

  1. (Men+Women) Catwalk analysis
  2. Real Time Runway Gallery
  3. Global Street Trend analysis and Gallery
  4. Tradeshow analysis
  5. Seasonal forecast
  6. Accessory forecast
  7. footwear forecast
  8. Bags Forecast
  9. Denim Forecast
  10. Intimate Trends & Forecasts
  11. Consumer Lifestyle forecast
  12. Color Forecast
  13. Product Category wise Forecast
  14. 2 Million+ Images
  15. 12k+ Reports archive

 

Right styles for Right Consumers at the Right time.

Access F-Trend online trend forecasting to create a better product for the right consumer at the right time.

Get access to our easy-to-use fashion trend forecasting services focused on designers, innovators, early adopters, and researchers in order to bring you emerging trend insights ahead of the market. Our reliable trend timeline tracking provides continuous trend validation to help you get trends right consistently

 
 

HOW TO ACCESS

The access to our trend platform is by seasonal or annual online subscription.
To take a look inside the platform, click the link below to request access to our service,  personalized demonstration.

SEASONAL COLOR TREND FORECAST

PRINT AND GRAPHIC TREND FORECAST

WOMEN FASHION FORECAST

MEN FASHION FORECAST

CATWALK TRENDS AND GALLERY

STREET TREND ANALYSIS & GALLERY

SEASONAL FORECASTS

TEXTILE & MATERIAL TREND FORECAST

FOOTWEAR DIRECTION

PURSE & BAGS

ACTIVEWEAR

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