The following general databases may be useful in helping you search for articles about recent trends and forecasts of future trends.
Try using searching by your theme AND search terms such as:
Fashion databases
Please create an account with your UM email for the first use, then log-in subsequently. Resource provides competitive research, information, insights, and trends for visual creatives to enhance and coordinate their brand’s physical and e-commerce environments. Content includes best-in-class visual merchandising, retail design, window displays, product packaging, e-commerce, and more, of the hottest global brands.
Fashion magazines
The links below lead to the coverage of articles in key fashion magazines in the library databases. You can search for articles within the different magazines (and limit by years). You can also visit the magazines' websites to see the latest issues: wwd.com, vogue.com, harpersbazaar.com, instyle.com, allure.com, esquire.com, gq.com
The following sites may prove useful in identifying trends: