David Wolfe is a Creative Director for Doneger Creative Services, The Doneger Group’s trend and color forecasting and analysis service for womenswear, menswear and youth apparel and accessories. Doneger Creative Services clients include an international roster of designers, manufacturers and retailers. As Creative Director, David analyzes trends influencing the men’s, women’s and youth apparel and accessories markets as well as big-picture developments in style, culture and society.David Wolfe is a Creative Director for Doneger Creative Services, The Doneger Group’s trend and color forecasting and analysis service for womenswear, menswear and youth apparel and accessories. Doneger Creative Services clients include an international roster of designers, manufacturers and retailers. As Creative Director, David analyzes trends influencing the men’s, women’s and youth apparel and accessories markets as well as big-picture developments in style, culture and society.
A high-profile personality, David’s wit and wisdom have earned him a stellar reputation over his thirty-five years in the fashion industry. He is known as “America’s Foremost Fashion Forecaster” and is the most quoted authority in the industry, his views and quips appearing in such diverse publications as The Wall Street Journal, Women’s Wear Daily, Vogue, Glamour and Forbes. He has been on CNN, QVC, “Entertainment Tonight” and “The Today Show” as well as talk shows and news
programming. A regular guest lecturer at the Fashion Institute of Technology, David has also spoken at the International Fashion Fabric Exhibition, the New York Premier Show, the Kids‚ International Fashion Fair, the National Retail Federation, MAGIC and New York and regional fashion groups.
David also serves as International Fashion Editor of Men Mode and Couture magazines, glossy high fashion publications in the Far East.
David began his career in a small town department store where his responsibilities included that of fashion coordinator, buyer, copywriter, illustrator and advertising manager. In the 1960s he moved to London, where he quickly established himself as a leading fashion artist published in Vogue, Women‚s Wear Daily, and The London Times. In 1969 David joined the infant “fashion service” industry and as Creative Director of I.M. International became one of the world’s leading fashion forecasters
and authorities, among the first to discover talents such as Giorgio Armani, Karl Lagerfeld and Gianni Versace. Early in the 1980s, David helped to found TFS The Fashion Service and returned to the U.S. to head TFS as President for a decade. He joined The Doneger Group in 1990.
Today David devotes much of his time to public appearances. His informative and amusing lectures, slides shows and television appearances make him a popular personality on the fashion scene.
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