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WGSN is a trend forecasting company that advises fashion and design companies on color, fabric and style trends. It was founded in 1998 in London and provides online subscriptions and advisory services to clients.

WGSN provides six different product subscriptions, a custom advisory business, and hosts a global series of events to advise clients on fashion, apparel, beauty, color, marketing, retail and wearable trends.

WGSN merged with its competitor Stylesight in 2013, incorporating the technology and expanding its library of resources. It has also hosted summit events called WGSN Futures globally since 2016.

 Stands for Worth Global Style Network.

 It is a trend forecasting company of parent organization


ascential.
 Founded in 1998 in west London by brothers Julian and Marc
Worth.
 Catriona Macnab, Head of Fashion at WGSN
 It is a creative trend forecaster and is based
at WGSN's office in London.
 Macnab leads a team which advises fashion and design
companies from luxury groups to multi-national stores
and specialist brands on what is coming next in areas
such as colour, fabric and style.
 As an online service, the business derives its revenues from
six different product subscriptions (WGSN Insight, WGSN
Fashion, WGSN Lifestyle & Interiors, WGSN Barometer,
WGSN Instock, WGSN Styletrial)
 A custom advisory business (WGSN Mindset)
 A global series of events (WGSN Futures)
 Its trend forecasting service includes what's new and next
in apparel, beauty, colour, marketing, retail and wearables.
 The firm has predicted that the smartphone will be obsolete by
2030.
 In 2013, WGSN merged with its biggest competitor, Style
sight.
 Like WGSN, Stylesight had a vast library of fashion
forecasting, trend information, archival photos, and even
sketches and patterns for designers to use.
 Keeping the WGSN name, the new product has been designed
around the technology developed by Stylesight and launched
in 2014.
 In February 2016, Ascential plc, an international media
company that includes WGSN in its portfolio, was the subject
of an £800m initial public offering.
 In 2016, WGSN started a global series of summits known as
WGSN Futures, with events in New York City, London, São
Paulo, Cape Town, Melbourne, Dubai and Hong Kong.
 The world’s premier online provider of inspiration and product
development tools uses cutting-edge technology to define and
disseminate trends that influence design.
 Stylesight searches the world uncovering and presenting
concepts that spark ideas.
 We are your muse and your design partner, bringing
inspiration, forecasts and analysis to your desktop.
 Stylesight’s headquarters are based in New York City, with a
trend forecasting atelier in Paris and satellite offices located
worldwide. Subscribers include thousands of the world’s
leading manufacturers, retailers and designers
 Stylesight’s technology and content are designed to inspire and
confirm your ideas. You will discover millions of images and
concepts that illuminate key trends.
 Stylesight simplifies the product development, design and
merchandising process.
 Stylesight’s vast content will keep you at the forefront of
fashion and design. We offer a global reach with a local touch.
Our knowledge of international trends ranges from under-the-
radar cultural happenings to top destinations, what to see,
where to shop and where you need to be.
 The world’s leading online textile design studio for
print, pattern and trend forecasting
 Patternbank is the go-to location for the print, pattern
& trend forecast intelligence.
 Patternbank sells the finest handcrafted designs from
a curated collection of highly skilled textile designers
and artists.
 It creates inspirational print trend reports and provide
consultancy to some of the biggest companies in the
industry.
 The Patternbank Studio aims to be the number one
online marketplace for the Print, Pattern and Graphics
industry.
 Explore thousands of royalty-free digital patterns and
exclusively licensed textile designs from the world's
largest online collection of textile designers.

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