Monthly Archives: January 2011

The New Era of Trend Spotting

I have had trouble writing about the trend spotting industry lately because while researching it over the past year, I learned that “coolhunters” have generally morphed in to “trend spotters” which have evolved into trend analysis agencies, which are now generally becoming full-service consultancies that simply incorporate trend spotting into their overall offering, be it [...]

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La Carmina & the Pirates

Three months ago, blogger/author/journalist/TV host La Carmina and Japanese-English translator Naomi Rubin launched a new business: La Carmina and the Pirates, which is configured not only to provide cool hunting and trend spotting services, but also TV and film fixing, on-camera hosting, social media assistance, translating, and travel-guiding.  Right as the company launched, La Carmina and Naomi graciously [...]

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