Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Does fashion still influence interior finishes?

As I trolled the mall yesterday with an eye tuned only to trends, I asked myself if fashion still had any influence on interior finishes or any other building products. I did some homework to track some of the past that influenced today's products, and was surprised at the direct influence of fashion up until this time. The above collage is the trajectory of trends that I uncovered from my own reports of global trade shows and media over the last 4+ years.

Of course everything has changed, the September issues of the fashion magazines are terribly conservative, and I doubt that will take nearly as long to translate to interior finishes as the "metal as color" trend took.

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