2025 ADVANCED FASHION TREND FORECASTING LIVE CERTIFICATE COURSE

Class Schedule: (Saturday-Sunday) Weekend

Class Duration: 8 Weeks + Practice Session

Mode:                        Online

Fee:                            $295

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Advanced Fashion Trend forecasting course 2025

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Course Content

Our comprehensive curriculum covers six essential modules designed to transform you into a skilled fashion forecasting professional.

Understanding human psychology and purchasing patterns in fashion

  • Emotion Mapping & brain hemisphere analysis (left vs. right brain thinking)
  • Society decoding and behavioral analysis
  • Consumer, product, and brand personality frameworks
  • Cultural influences on self-perception and rituals
  • Adulthood stages and human development
  • Consumption evolution and pattern analysis
  • Future consumer landscape & meaningful consumption shifts
  • Situation-based purchasing behavior
  • F-trend PVP model introduction
  • Lifestyle navigator tools
  • Desire, behavioral, and motivator extraction
  • Values and opportunity identification
  • VALS and Prizm consumer motivation methodologies
  • McCracken's meaning transfer model
  • Fashion system and product advertising
  • Freudian theory applications to consumer behavior
  • Fashion-specific behavioral applications
  • Psychological approaches to millennial fashion change
  • Consumer mechanism reconsideration
  • Case study analysis

Master trend mapping, multidimensional forecasting, and scenario planning

  • Cognitive biases and focusing illusion
  • Contemporary brain research and interconnection
  • Five primary trend research methodologies
  • Nine trend forecasting approaches
  • Emotional versus factual analysis
  • Weak signal identification to macro trend development
  • Pattern connection techniques
  • 4D Quadrant Model application
  • Essential future building blocks
  • 4D Framework Model implementation
  • Trend canvas construction
  • Trend index development processes
  • SWOT analysis for trends
  • Scenario definition and applications
  • Narrative and scenario development
  • Mindset mapping integration
  • Realistic versus idealistic scenario creation
  • Scanning and collection methodologies
  • Soft and core analysis techniques
  • Synthesis of potential futures
  • Core findings communication
  • Trend shortlisting processes
  • New thinking models
  • Trend Engagement Barometer

Fashion-specific product innovation from concept to market

  • New product development fundamentals in fashion
  • Strategic rationale for NPD
  • Fashion-specific NPD strategies
  • Textile and apparel development
  • Fashion retail product development modules
  • 4P and 6P product models
  • Single and two-fold NPD modules
  • Exogenous variables in development
  • Product trend SWOT analysis
  • Trend forecasting implementation in NPD
  • Color forecasting implications
  • Carr & Pomeroy's design and product process
  • Gaskill's development process model
  • Brannon's NPD model
  • Product development integration with forecasting
  • Fashion and retail structure understanding
  • Fast fashion considerations
  • Seasonal fashion setup
  • Seasonal retail buying sequences
  • Critical path management
  • Product lifecycle stages
  • Fashion industry dynamics

Supply chain integration, retail dynamics, and industry forecasting

  • Supply chain management and forecasting connections
  • Fast fashion retail setup
  • Fashion versus trend forecast distinction
  • Industry forecasting requirements
  • Sales impact on forecasting
  • Aggregation and seasonality factors
  • F-trend PVP module detailed exploration
  • Short-term to long-term thinking transition
  • Macro and mega trends analysis
  • Finding scanning methodologies
  • Future potential synthesis
  • Quantifiable and qualitative research factors
  • Research location identification
  • Lifestyle Navigator applications
  • Scenario planning in fashion contexts
  • Consumer mindset design analysis
  • Now-and-next timing strategies
  • Color forecasting consumer connections
  • Forecasting error identification
  • Retail business integration
  • Fashion forecasting process overview
  • Trendspotting signal recognition
  • Trend forecaster competencies

Chromatic trend prediction and color cycle modeling

  • Color development procedures
  • Color development timeline considerations
  • Color trend change rates
  • Color cycle modeling
  • Core, long-term, and short-term color cycles
  • Cyclical color pattern identification
  • Fashion forecasting procedural steps
  • Research methodologies for color trends
  • Fast fashion impact on color cycles
  • Seasonal color palette adjustments
  • Color board creation techniques
  • Style forecast development practices

Understanding how emotions drive design choices and consumer interactions

  • An overview of the 20 Mood states
  • Why Emotion Mapping matters
  • Product Use Methods
  • HPEI - Cars and Fashion connections
  • Emotion & Design integration
  • Emotion knowledge acquisition
  • Emotion Goal Definition
  • Emotion Defined Innovation (EDI)
  • Front End and Backend of Emotion
  • Positive Emotion versus Positive Mood
  • Determining Emotional Intentions
  • Emotion Typologies
  • Visualisation of the Emotions
  • What is Positive Emotion
  • Product Emotion Measurement Tool
  • Positive emotions in human-product interactions
  • Emotion and Product Development
  • Emotional Design Tools
  • Trend and Emotion correlation
  • Emotion Index & Barometer

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.

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Course Outcomes And Objectives

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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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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Course Outcome

  • Build a strong strategic framework with best practices, strategies, and innovations that shape future business planning.

  • Drive sales and brand growth through bold, accurate trend predictions tailored to your market.

  • Plan versatile forecasts that address multiple business needs while considering brand goals and external challenges.

  • Gain cross-functional insights into forecasting’s hidden influence on teams and customer engagement.

  • Discover new opportunities by deep diving into emerging consumer trends and applying them to solve business challenges.

  • Design a trend-driven culture that empowers creativity, fosters innovation, and equips you to lead future trend sessions.

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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.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Find answers to common questions about TrendClass and our fashion forecasting training program.

What is TrendClass?

TrendClass is F-Trend Academy's comprehensive professional fashion forecasting training program. It covers six essential modules including Consumer Behaviour, Trend Forecast, New Product Development (NPD), Fashion Forecast, Color Forecasting, and Emotional Forecast & Design Development.

Who should enroll in TrendClass?

TrendClass is designed for fashion industry professionals including designers, product developers, buyers, merchandisers, brand managers, and anyone seeking to master fashion forecasting methodologies and consumer insight analysis.

What will I learn in the TrendClass program?

You will learn consumer behaviour analysis, trend forecasting methodologies, new product development strategies, fashion forecasting techniques, color forecasting and cycle modeling, and emotional design development. The program covers both theoretical frameworks and practical applications.

How is the TrendClass curriculum structured?

The curriculum is structured into six comprehensive modules: 1) Consumer Behaviour - understanding purchasing patterns and psychology, 2) Trend Forecast - mastering trend mapping and scenario planning, 3) NPD - fashion-specific product innovation, 4) Fashion Forecast - supply chain and retail dynamics, 5) Color Forecasting - chromatic trend prediction, and 6) Emotional Forecast & Design Development.

What methodologies are taught in TrendClass?

TrendClass teaches industry-leading methodologies including the F-trend PVP model, VALS and Prizm consumer motivation frameworks, McCracken's meaning transfer model, 4D Quadrant Model, Trend Engagement Barometer, and various scenario planning and weak signal identification techniques.

Is TrendClass available online?

Yes, TrendClass is available in both online and onsite formats to accommodate different learning preferences and schedules. Contact F-Trend Academy for current availability and upcoming session dates.

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