ICH NEXT is a fashion trend forecasting and intelligence service developed by ICH Creative Consulting Pvt Ltd, headquartered in Bengaluru, India.
Launched as India’s first indigenous trend research platform, ICH NEXT delivers seasonal fashion trend reports covering womenswear, menswear, ethnic wear, westernwear, colour forecasts, print directions, and silhouette trends for the Indian retail market. Its methodology combines 360-degree consumer research with AI-powered insights through ichnextlabs.ai.
ICH NEXT offers digital subscriptions and custom trend advisory services to fashion brands, retail buyers, and design teams. Subscribers include Westside by Tata Trent, Lifestyle, Myntra, Amazon India, Tata CLiQ Luxury, Ganga Fashions, Kisah, Pantaloons, Jaypore and more. In 2025, ICH NEXT entered a strategic partnership with Peclers Paris to deliver globally benchmarked fashion trend intelligence for India.
Our team scours the fashion landscape from every angle, 365 days a year. We track womenswear trends, menswear trends, eithinic wear, gen-z trends, new silhouettes, colour directions, lifestyle consumption patterns, and more. Whether it’s societal dynamics, emerging street styles, haute couture runways, or cultural shifts, we’ve got our finger on the pulse of it all. It’s local and global.
Our advanced algorithms analyze vast amounts of data, while our team of trend experts adds that crucial human touch. Combining cutting-edge technology with the power of human intuition, ensures that our forecasts are not only accurate but also deeply insightful.
We believe fashion research reports should be accessible to everyone not just trend specialists. That’s why we present our ICH NEXT forecasts as clear, visual, easy-to-understand guides. No jargon. Just actionable trend intelligence your teams can act on immediately.
Need inspiration for your next collection? Our ready-to-use creative library is packed with Trending Colours, colour combinations, embroidery trends, traditional textile motifs, patterns, and flat specs – curated for Indian textile brands, lifestyle brands and designers who want to stay ahead. Simply browse, select, and download.
A generic subscription not enough? We work deeply with you to research and identify the trends best suited for your brand and target customer – delivering bespoke fashion trend intelligence for retail buyers, brand teams, and design leads that drives real sales results.
We’ll help you bring a distinctive edge to every collection. From upcoming colour trends in western & fusion wear to bold prints & fabrications in womenswear and menswear – our fashion forecasts give you the creative direction to stand out confidently in a competitive market.
From concept to editorial curation, we provide end-to-end support to bring your vision to life. We work closely with you to develop compelling concepts suited for your target audience. We then curate engaging editorial content, including mood boards, lookbooks, and trend stories, to showcase your collection in the best possible light.
A fashion trend intelligence service tracks and analyses shifts in consumer preferences, cultural signals, and market dynamics to predict upcoming trends in fashion and lifestyle. At ICH NEXT, our research spans runway fashion, home aesthetics, celebrity style, gen-z trends, societal influences, social media trends, restaurant culture, travel preferences, and more – synthesised into clear, actionable forecasts your teams can use to design, buy, and plan with confidence.
Fashion businesses succeed by staying relevant to their consumers and trend forecasting is how the best brands stay ahead. A well-researched trend forecast helps fashion brands make smarter design decisions, reduce buying risk, and plan collections with greater confidence. Our clients have achieved up to 7x increase in revenue per style through timely adoption of our trend reports.
India is one of the world’s largest and most diverse consumer markets with a booming youth population, deep cultural richness, and rapidly evolving fashion preferences across categories. From silhouette trends to beauty forecasts, India’s fashion landscape demands a research platform built specifically for its market realities. Our trend forecasting is designed to help brands understand and respond to what Indian consumers actually want, season by season.
Anyone involved in product development, buying, or brand strategy, including retail buyers, designers, merchandisers, brand teams, and marketers. Whether you’re building for Gen-Z consumers in India, tracking upcoming beauty trends, or planning your spring-summer collection, our trend intelligence is built to help you stay ahead.
At the start of every design cycle but not only then. Our fashion research reports are most valuable at the top of the design funnel, helping teams set creative direction early. They continue to add value through development, with royalty-free assets like motifs and specs available for direct adoption. The trend callouts and market sentiments in each report are equally useful for buying and marketing teams.
By giving your teams the consumer and trend intelligence they need to make better decisions, faster. Better forecasting means better product, stronger sell-through, and lasting brand loyalty. See our case studies for real examples of how our clients have grown with ICH NEXT.
ICH NEXT tracks consumer behaviour across defined demographic and psychographic cohorts in India, including Gen Z , Gen Alpha, Millennials and Gen X fashion consumers, aspirational middle-class buyers, metro versus Tier-2 and Tier-3 town shoppers, and lifestyle-led segments defined by income, cultural identity, and consumption patterns. Our research maps how each cohort’s preferences, influences, and spending behaviours are shifting, giving brands the intelligence to design, position, and market with genuine precision.
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