Market Signal
What we’re seeing change.
Every pattern below was counted across 211 photographs in the Wear Relaxed archive. A pattern is only called a pattern when it appears in at least 25% of them — 53 Looks today. Nothing here is a forecast, and nothing here was asked of a model.
The latest signal
Got Sole LA, One Saturday in Downtown
One Saturday at the LA Convention Center. A sneaker convention where a great deal of the floor, and most of the best dressing, turned out to be clothes.
Read the analysisCurrently reading as a pattern
Graphic Tees
graphic tees
73 of 211 Looks·35%
The Wide Leg
wide-leg pants
71 of 211 Looks·34%
A pattern clearing the bar is not automatically a story. It becomes one when there is something non-obvious to say about it.
Recent signals
Ten of Forty-Five Looks Are Almost Entirely Black
Not a monochrome trend piece — just a count. About a fifth of the archive is black head to toe except for one accent, and it shows up in every neighborhood we shoot.
6 Looks of evidence
The Graphic Tee Never Left, and Little Tokyo Wears It Most
Sixteen of the forty-five looks in our archive lead with a graphic tee, and nearly half of those were photographed in Little Tokyo — vintage band shirts, horror-movie reprints, mascot logos.
7 Looks of evidence
When the Bottom Half Goes Wide, Something Up Top Holds Still
Sixteen of the forty-five looks in our archive lead with a wide, gathered, or voluminous bottom half, and the interesting part isn't the pants — it's what happens above them to make it work.
9 Looks of evidence