Turn one trend into an approved design package
You are given one trend direction for next season and asked to develop three designs within an existing brand's handwriting, costed to its price band.
Who this is for: Designers, trend and concept staff, product developers and design students.
What you produce: A design package: trend rationale, colour and fabric direction, three developed designs with specification notes, and the approval trail.
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Task 1
Write the trend rationale: what the direction is, what supports it, and how it fits the brand rather than the runway.
What a good answer contains: A good answer distinguishes the trend from the brand's interpretation of it, and cites the sources it used without inventing figures.
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Task 2
Set the colour and fabric direction, with the practical constraints — availability, minimums, cost and care — noted against each.
What a good answer contains: A good answer treats colour as a managed standard, not a mood, and flags fabrics that cannot be sourced at the brand's minimums.
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Task 3
Develop three designs to the point a technician could start a tech pack, and mark the detail on each one that carries the trend.
What a good answer contains: A good answer keeps the trend in one or two deliberate details per garment rather than spreading it everywhere, and notes construction implications and cost drivers.
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Task 4
Describe the approval trail: who signs what, at which stage, and what happens when a design is approved after the fabric deadline.
What a good answer contains: A good answer treats approval as a dated gate with an owner, and states the consequence of late approval on the critical path.
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