Clothing trade forecasting (Topical Term)

UMI business vocab.

Chung, D. Law, brands, and innovation : how trademark law helps to create fashion innovation, 2017: abstr. (the role of trademark law in the fashion industry)

Britannica online, Apr. 23, 2020: Fashion industry (Fashion industry, multibillion-dollar global enterprise devoted to the business of making and selling clothes. Some observers distinguish between the fashion industry (which makes "high fashion") and the apparel industry (which makes ordinary clothes or "mass fashion"), but by the 1970s the boundaries between them had blurred. Fashion is best defined simply as the style or styles of clothing and accessories worn at any given time by groups of people; the fashion industry encompasses the design, manufacturing, distribution, marketing, retailing, advertising, and promotion of all types of apparel (men's, women's, and children's) from the most rarefied and expensive haute couture (literally, "high sewing") and designer fashions to ordinary everyday clothing--from couture ball gowns to Juicy Couture-brand sweatpants. Sometimes the broader term "fashion industries" is used to refer to myriad industries and services that employ millions of people internationally)

Encyclopedia.com, Apr. 23, 2020: Fashion industry (What defines the fashion industry is largely based on the functions of the individuals who comprise it--designers, stores, factory workers, seamstresses, tailors, technically skilled embroiderers, the press, publicists, salespersons (or "garmentos"), fit models, runway models, couture models, textile manufacturers, pattern makers, and sketch artists. In simplest terms, the fashion industry could be described as the business of making clothes, but that would omit the important distinction between fashion and apparel. Apparel is functional clothing, one of humanity's basic needs, but fashion incorporates its own prejudices of style, individual taste, and cultural evolution)

United States Fashion Industry Association website, Apr. 23, 2020: About the fashion industry (the high-fashion runways are just one part of the broader textile and apparel industry that ranges from high-end luxury brands to fast-fashion retailers--and the thousands of companies in between that produce and sell clothing, shoes, and other textile products; companies across the value chain; Brands, retailers, importers, and wholesalers of textiles and apparel; Service providers, including consultants, customs brokers, freight forwarders, law firms, logistics providers, steamship lines, and testing and certification companies that help those brands, retailers, importers, and wholesalers; Manufacturers and suppliers of finished products and inputs for finished products, as well as supplier associations, business councils, and promotional groups; Agencies that promote the industry from a specific region, country, city, or other geographic entity)