LibGuides: Childrenswear: Trend and Forecasting Services

Current Forecasts

WGSN Fashion
Trend reports & forecasting for fashion.
Students must create an account and re-activate their account every 90 days: click to create or re-activate account
Locked out of your account for too many incorrect login attempts? Reset your password here.
To access WGSN Fashion login via the proxy and then with your WGSN username and password select the part of the site you wish to use from the top menu.
Use an incognito browser to access this resource.

Once logged in to WGSN
Choose Market > Youth (or kids) for Reports (forecasts for upcoming seasons and trend news), Stories (brief editorial comments on newsy images) and Images (from recent store views, brand/designer collections)

Image Library has photos from reports and stories, and design tools like "Fabric Swatches' "Colour Libraries", "Brushes and Fills", "Prints and Graphics" and "CADS/Flats". All of those can also be filtered by gender, product, color tones, and more.

Future Snoops
Trend reports & forecasting for fashion. Formally called “Fashion Snoops.”
Users are required to create a MY FS account
Use Mozilla/Firefox, Google Chrome, and Safari

In Fashion Snoops, choose
Explore > Youth (or Girls, or Boys) to see all the options including forecasts, runway and news items, the ability to narrow down by specific garment category, and more.

Doneger Tobe
Now known as TOBE TDG
Some childrenswear and related insights but you must search "children" or "juniors" to find them; there's no separate category.
Use the password listed for Doneger

Historical Forecasts

How can a forecast be historical?
Someone in 1990 might have been looking for trends for 1992, and the FIT Library kept those now-"historical" forecasts!