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      <title>The Met Gala Put Menswear First, and the Tailoring Signal Travelled Fast</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Superfine: Tailoring Black Style made 2025 the first menswear-first Met Gala since 2003. What the theme did to tailoring's direction — and where forecasters split.]]></description>
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      <title>How Trend Forecasting Actually Works, From Runway Counts to Retail Data</title>
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      <title>How a Season&apos;s Color Gets Named, Two Years in Advance</title>
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      <title>The Luminous Blue Turn For Spring 2027</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Pantone named a soft off-white its Color of the Year for 2026 through a process it has never fully disclosed. WGSN, a rival forecaster, publishes exactly how it makes the same kind of call — and the contrast explains how trend forecasting actually works.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Accessories that outlast the trend cycle: the seven permanent shapes — tote, fine chain, silk scarf and more — and how to buy each only once.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>How WGSN Built a Trend-Forecasting Business Beyond Fashion</title>
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      <title>A Year Into the Post-Wintour Vogue, the Media Map Has Been Redrawn</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A year into Chloé Malle's Vogue succession, the media map is redrawn: internal heirs, digital pedigrees, separated business lines. What the trade watche…]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>New York SS27 Opening Read: What the September Schedule Decides Early</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The CFDA preliminary schedule sets NYFW September 2026 at September 10-15: Tory Burch opens, Thom Browne closes. What SS27's calendar already decides.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Law Roach, the Meghan effect and Rachel Zoe: how celebrity stylists read and set trends faster than runways, and why forecast agencies track them.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Issey Miyake on Madison Avenue, Zara on Oxford Street, Alo on the Riviera: why mid-2026 retail expansion is a redefinition story, not a recovery story.]]></description>
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      <title>Couture Fall 2026 Trend Notes: Surrealism and Fabrication Close the Week</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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