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Maybe the recent uptick on Wall Street has motivated designers of fashion and home furnishings to go for all-out glitz again. Whatever the reason, gold is cropping up on everything from Gucci snakeskin stilettos to 18karat cappuccino machines. Trend spotter Jane Buckingham, president of Youth Intelligence, says, "Coming out of pessimistic times and recession, people are ready for a bit of luxury again, and nothing says luxury like gold...
...insist on decorating sensible cubicles with orange and black streamers and littering the office with bowls of candy, the folk who dress up and throw pumpkin parties at country clubs, the hundreds of thousands who will come to work next week in costume. Chris Riddle is the Halloween trend spotter at card-and-decorations giant American Greetings, which estimates that 25% of the American work force will observe Halloween in some fashion this year. "It's a release," Riddle says of the way people deck out their suburban yards, "a way to say, 'I can still act like...
...insist on decorating sensible cubicles with orange and black streamers and littering the office with bowls of candy, the folk who dress up and throw pumpkin parties at country clubs, the hundreds of thousands who will come to work next week in costume. Chris Riddle is the Halloween trend spotter at card-and-decorations giant American Greetings, which estimates that 25% of the American work force will observe Halloween in some fashion this year. "It's a release," Riddle says of the way people deck out their suburban yards, "a way to say, 'I can still act like...
...Internet is making things tougher for most trend watchers, at least one trend spotter is turning its raging information flow to her advantage, using it to power the turbines of cool. Her name is DeeDee Gordon, and she's a co-founder, with partner Sharon Lee, of a new trend-spotting firm called Look-Look. Gordon has a certain notoriety in the trend-spotting industry: she was the original cool hunter, the subject of the famous 1997 New Yorker profile. Gordon and Lee both used to work for Lambesis, but by 1999 they got impatient with the way things were...
...Today, Chek Lap Kok offers practically nothing to the plane spotter. With no spectator facilities (none were even planned), spotters are totally sidelined. The hardy are left to find good viewing sites at the airport for themselves...