Quotes About Trends

Markets are frequently ahead of, and often out of sync with, the economy.

Now it's as if buying a new phone is like winning some kind of contest. I felt as if I were in a bidding war for the color I wanted, not that I actually care, because I'll get a case to prevent the thing from shattering the first time it falls out of my bra strap.

After years of working on the periphery of the fashion industry, she had come to realize the whole thing was an underhanded attempt to force women to keep buying clothes. Fast fashion had taken over. Topshop, H&M, Primark. What was in would be out in a month.

The upward spiral was checked from the mid-1980s and reversed around 1990. For the last couple of decades, the G7 share has been torqueing downward at a mighty pace. Today it is back to the level that it first attained at the very beginning of the nineteen century.

Recall that people like to do what most people think it is right to do; recall too that people like to do what most people actually do.

Violent crimes had increased from 120 per 100,000 in 1962 180 per 100,000 by 1964.

Patterns repeat themselves in history

Vienna's population has dropped to 1.8 million, with dogs being the preferred "child" and the average Austrian woman having only 1.4 children.

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

There is a phrase for this that has become quite common: "I'm spiritual but not religious." Polls show that some 20 percent of Americans identify overall with that phrase. And some polls have shown that, in the younger generation—those between eighteen and twenty-nine—this percentage explodes to an astonishing 75 percent!2 In other words, three out of four young individuals have a deep spiritual yearning that no existing religion is addressing.

To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.

Opportunities are never lost, just found by those who clearly see the power of trends and timing.

A lot of things people see as innovative are faddish and fleeting, and I'm simply telling you, staying power like broadcasting has is more important in the end than the latest app you can download.

Culture follows power.

In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is undermined, what the general masses feel tend to become the common rule.

Today's designers don't care if fashion has no relationship to human anatomy.

Thou art not for the fashion of these times,Where none will sweat but for promotion.

He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.

forecasts have to be based on the past, and

Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers.

There are more than four former Christians for every convert to Christianity •

24 A 2010 study in the Journal of Sports Sciences noted that between 1989 and 1997, the average length of the Tour de France rose from 3,285km to 3,944km (2,040–2,450 miles) and featured 17,000m (55,770 feet) of additional climbing. Average speeds should have slowed by 11.3% during this time. They improved by 4.5%.

In fact, it's entirely plausible that the factors affecting people's preferences are microscopic and fleeting.