2025 Festive Trends
October 8, 2025
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The seasons have well and truly turned into autumn and up and down the nation gift, home and garden retailers are planning festive shop windows,
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BDA London is Autumn Fair Trend partner
August 17, 2025
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Autumn Fair has announced that BDA London is its official trend partner, bringing an exclusive preview of the key trends set to shape Autumn/Winter 2026/27.
Gale Astley writes: Hip To Be Square
February 20, 2025
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Giddy for gingham or tender for tartan, plaid and chequerboard have cornered greeting card designs in 2025. From the bonny Highlands to Dorothy on the
Spring Fair partners with Trendhub
January 24, 2025
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Spring Fai (2nd – 5th February 2025, NEC Birmingham) has partnered with leading trend agency BDA London and their smart forecasting service Trendhub to deliver
Colour your Lives at showUP
December 23, 2024
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The 2025 edition of the premiere BeNeLux region exhibition, showUP will include an exciting new feature called colourUP, emphasising the key colour trends and themes
True Joy: Dulux Colour of the Year 2025
October 25, 2024
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The colour supremos at Dulux have made the vivid yellow, True Joy, their colour of the year for 2025. The inspiration was the Co’lour Futures
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