"The best ideas are born on the edge of uncertainty. Let’s think wider together."
Lilly Berelovich | Founder + Chief Creative, Fashion Snoops
WHAT TO EXPECT
Each season, our creative team identifies four Cultural Sentiments which explore lifestyles, attitudes, values and feelings; examine new movements and uncover insights that are impacting consumer behavior.
Through our #heartled forecasting methodology, we will define the drivers of change which we believe to be rooted in how consumers are feeling. By fully understanding how consumers are feeling, we can deliver what they need and want.
Through the Thrive Program, you will discover our Cultural Sentiments for FW 21 | 22 through four weekly experiential learning modules. The modules are designed to heighten the creative process through a curated experienced delivered via:
Wisdom keepers will challenge your perception of the present and invite you to design a new future.
WORDS OF
WISDOM
5-10 minutes
WORDS OF
WISDOM
We need to feel to heal, and we need to heal to create. These sacred practices will provide you an opportunity to tap into your inner wisdom.
SACRED
PRACTICE
20 minutes
SACRED
PRACTICE
CONSUMER INSIGHT
Learn about the key cultural shifts that are impacting consumer attitudes and behaviors.
CONSUMER
INSIGHT
20 minutes
DESIGN
INSPIRATION
From color, to materials, to patterns & graphics, understand how our Cultural Sentiments will impact design across all markets.
DESIGN
INSPIRATION
30 minutes
Our team of editors will speak to the specific implications of our cultural research for each of the markets we provide coverage for.
MARKET
ALIGNMENT
MARKET
ALIGNMENT
20 minutes
RESOURCE
CENTER
Access additional insights and research including relevant reports by our editorial team and our
AI-powered data trackers.
RESOURCE
CENTER
For FS Clients only
IDEATION
CHARTS
Identify future opportunities and strategies using our provocative thought starters and worksheets.
IDEATION
CHARTS
WEEKLY
WEBINARS
Join members of the THRIVE community and the FS creative team for a Q&A session and to discuss important takeaways from each week's module.
WEEKLY
WEBINARS
1 hour
You will have access to:
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On-demand video sessions
Inspiration & insight
Market alignment
Somatic practices
Words of wisdom
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Ideation charts and planning guides
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Weekly live webinars with FS experts
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Community Q & A forums
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AI-powered retail and media tracking*
*Starred features are available exclusively for FS Members; see pricing outline below for our Thrive Program offerings
AREAS OF FOCUS
CULTURAL
SENTIMENTS
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Amend
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Wonder
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Goodness
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Edge
The THRIVE Program is geared toward not just learning about the future, but feeling the future.
THRIVE
MISSION
We will:
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Reimagine the creative process
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Relearn how to feel and intuit
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Elevate #heartled and sacred practices as central to the creative process
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Combine the ‘Felt’ with the Facts to arrive at a holistic creative response
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Dive deeply into awe and inspiration
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Experience creativity from a place of joy
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Inspire conscious choices to create an ethical ecosystem
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Lead the industry into community thinking
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Guide leadership toward sound and necessary business solutions
WHO SHOULD
PARTICIPATE
Who should participate:
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Designers
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Product Developers
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Innovation Managers
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Merchants
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Buyers
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Marketing Professionals
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Graphic Designers
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Entrepreneurs
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Anyone looking for direction and inspiration that is both felt and factual
Featured FS Experts
LILLY BERELOVICH
President, Chief Creative
MICHAEL FISHER
VP, Menswear
JENNA GUARASCIO
Director, Content Strategy
RACHAEL GENTNER
Editor, Pattern + Graphics
MELISSA HAGO
VP, Beauty
WILLIAM HILDEBRAND
Director, Activewear
PATRICIA MAEDA
Head of Intimates & Swimwear
LISA MCCANDLESS
Creative Director,
Pattern + Graphics
JAYE ANNA MIZE
VP, Home & Interiors
MELISSA MOYLAN
VP, Womenswear
NIA SILVA
Editor, Materials
ROBBIE SINCLAIR
Creative Director, Youth
ANIA SOMMERAUER
Editor, Kids
HALLIE SPRADLIN
Director, Accessories
Cultural Alignment Speakers
Andrew Kung is a Brooklyn based photographer with roots in San Francisco, aiming to create a utopia with his images where Asian American beauty is normalized beauty. His first fashion narrative photo book, “The All-American” premiered on i-D, Dazed, CNN Style, Paper, Milk, Ignant, and It’s Nice That, and explored vulnerability through the lens of the invisibility and masculinity of Asian American men.
ANDREW KUNG
Photographer
Isabella Lalonde creates one-of-a-kind, whimsical handmade jewelry that is designed intuitively, allowing for a meaningful connection between her creations and those who wear them. Since its recent launch in August 2019, the brand has been featured in publications such as Vogue, GQ, I-d, Hypebeast, WWW, Flaunt and spotted on countless celebrities including singer Halsey.
ISABELLA LALONDE
Designer & Founder,
Beepy Bella
David Pearce is a British philosopher who promotes the idea that there exists a strong ethical imperative for humans to work towards the abolition of suffering in all sentient life. His internet manifesto The Hedonistic Imperative details how he believes the end of suffering can be accomplished. He co-founded the World Transhumanist Association in 1998, and the Abolitionist Society in 2002.
DAIVD PEARCE
Transhumanist Theorist & Author, The Hedonistic Imperative
Mario Moore is a Detroit native, currently residing in New York City. Moore received a BFA in Illustration from the College for Creative Studies and an MFA in Painting from the Yale School of Art. He was recently awarded a Princeton Hodder Fellowship for 2018-2019, where he completed an exhibition called “The Work of Several Lifetimes,” which highlighted the contributions of Black workers on and around the Princeton campus.
MARIO MOORE
Painter, Sculptor, Creator
Hugh Herr heads the Biomechatronics group at the MIT Media Lab. In 2011, TIME magazine coined him the “Leader of the Bionic Age” because of his revolutionary work in the emerging field of biomechatronics – technology that marries human physiology with electromechanics. A double amputee himself, Herr is responsible for breakthrough advances in bionic limbs that provide greater mobility and new hope to those with physical disabilities.
HUGH HERR
Director of Biomechatronics,
MIT Media Lab
Yaquí Rodriguez is a 4th generation energy healer, working primarily through the medium of vibration (energy, sound, emotion, aromatherapy, water, crystal, plants). Through her rooted ancestry and connection with Mother Earth, she gives people a chance to slow down and connect back to their divine voice that is often neglected in the day to day responsibilities in an unforgettable journey back to the self.
@yaquiarodriguez | @waveofhealing
YAQUÍ RODRIGUEZ
Energy Healer
Thought Leaders
Elizabeth Gilbert is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love. In 2015, she published BIG MAGIC: CREATIVE LIVING BEYOND FEAR — a book that encapsulates the joyful spirit of adventure and permission that Elizabeth has always brought to her work and to her life.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
New York Times
Bestselling Author
Laura Plumb is the Founder and Director of VedaWise and lead faculty for the Ayurvedic Integrated Nutrition 200 hour Professional Training. nutrition, health and healing, Laura is an international educator on the power of the Vedic sciences to promote radical health and sacred, sumptuous living.
LAURA PLUMB
Founder & Director, VedaWise
Fernando Ausin is is an international social entrepreneur with a strong passion for social justice and global sustainability. He has worked extensively as a consultant, educator and healer around the globe.His most recent book, “Messages from the Elders” describes the cosmovision and wisdom of a man of knowledge from a remote indigenous community in the highlands of Mexico
FERNANDO AUSIN
Social Entrepreneur
Savon Bartley is an award - winning writer, artist, and producer with a passion for storytelling. He is currently working on new music, a full length play, and is excited about what he has on the way.
SAVON BARTLEY
Writer, Artist, Producer
Healing Practitioners
Ashley Ludman's authenticity is woven with an ability to bring her experience of life, contemplation, and healing to her teaching in a way that will inspire you to see new possibilities within yourself and the world around you. Every practice Ashley guides is a journey, as she blends her deep wisdom of anatomy, alignment and energetics with a love of storytelling as a window into the body’s potential for transformation.
ASHLEY LUDMAN
Breathwork Facilitator
CASEY KARR &
HATIM BELYAMANI
Musicians
Casey Karr is a musician and sonic explorer with a background in addictions counseling and human rights advocacy. Casey approaches sound as a tool for self-discovery, self-witnessing, and self-healing and her sessions focus on exploring, expressing, and nurturing the true self.
Hatim Belyamani is the Founder & Director of Remix ⟷ Culture, a non-profit organization celebrating musical traditions in harmony with digital remix art with a mission to bridge divides and connect disparate communities through the power of music and film.
Barbara Droubay teaches and works with creators, innovators, and entrepreneurs towards reaching their creative aims effectively and with greater pleasure. She is an inspired lecturer and a leader of group training in Creative Confidence. Her courses and workshops teach a unique approach of recognizing creativity as a physical experience in the body – which when developed – activates and engages our inborn creative drive.
BARBARA DROUBAY
Founding Director, Life Artists
Music composed exclusively for the
FS THRIVE PROGRAM by
Musical duo Y&I is almost impossible to define. Not influenced by pop but creating pop songs, their creations are “rhythmic and primal, airy and ethereal, and intense and catchy, all with a sense of playful fun.” (John Ordean of One In Ten Words)
WHY THRIVE
These are turbulent times we are living in; life as we once knew it has changed. Nothing will feel the same even after we return to our offices and our desks, nor should it. We are being tasked with the pivotal responsibility of rethinking everything.
We have all changed over the past few months and as creatives, we will be asked to solve paramount issues involving a consumer that has new fears, needs and values.
In order to fully support our creative
community, we need to help everyone FEEL.
We are making it our mission to give creatives
a taste of openness and expansion through this physical, inspirational, and actionable
digital program.
THE THREE PILLARS OF THE
THRIVE PROGRAM
ANCIENT WISDOM
As creatives, it is imperative that we tend to our inner experience if we are to understand what the future holds. After all, the future will be what we create it to be! Teachers of sacred sciences will invite you to access your inner wisdom through mindful practices and enlightening lectures designed to remove any obstacles to your highest creative potential.
INSPIRATIONAL CONTENT
The Cultural Sentiments, Design Aesthetics, and Color Forecasts that are the cornerstone of our vision for the future will be delivered in a multi-sensorial forum designed to enhance your receptivity. From gorgeous sound and visual cues to curated and paced direction, you will be fully immersed in inspiration.
ACTIONABLE SOLUTIONS
Our Editorial team will present research and analysis, crystalizing conceptual ideas into actionable business solutions with market specific alignment and insight. Use data gleaned by the FS team and backed by Artificial Intelligence to reinforce your decision making and design processes.
We are SO impressed by how the team was able to creatively adapt the curriculum in this new digital format. As always the speakers and caliber of content are unparalleled. We so appreciate how FS has and continues to be a key source of support and inspiration during this time.
THRIVE
COMMUNITY
This work cannot and should not be done alone. Now more than ever, it is evident that we need each other. By joining our Thrive Program, you are also joining our Thrive Community, dedicated to supporting and empowering you to create with meaning. Gain access to out-of-the-box business solutions, find the resources you need in order to make more conscious choices and a more ethical eco-system, and understand the steps we all need to take in order to enact real change – not just temporarily, but permanently.
MORE REASONS TO THRIVE
THRIVE
CERTIFICATION
After completing the Thrive Program,
you will walk away with our
THRIVE CERTIFICATION, indicating your preparedness to address the issues currently faced by the creative community and your qualifications to help your current/future companies come out of this situation stronger than ever before.
ABOUT US
FS is a global trend forecasting agency that helps companies harness future trends. For the past 20 years, we have utilized Artificial and Human Intelligence to surface trend-driven business opportunities. We have created a collaborative online platform for creatives to explore what's next, create, and share new concepts.
FS's advisory group works with global retailers and brands to create tailored solutions so they can leverage macro cultural shifts and better their business and product offerings.
Headquartered in NYC, FS has clients and contributors in 50 countries around the globe. For more about us, click here.
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PRICING & PACKAGES
(1) One membership includes access for one viewer to the Thrive Program platform; please purchase additional memberships for additional viewers
*Each membership level is valid for one seasonal program only; you will need to re-enroll for future seasons
