Overall, the business continues to hover in a state of flux, and the fortunes of individual players can flip with scary velocity. As our ten developments indicate, new markets, new technologies, and shifting consumer needs current opportunities—but additionally dangers. We predict that 2019 will be a yr shaped by consumer shifts linked to know-how, social causes, and belief issues, alongside the potential disruption from geopolitical and macroeconomic events. Only those brands that accurately reflect the Zeitgeist or have the courage to “self-disrupt” will emerge as winners. All this comes in opposition to a backdrop of the fashion trade having turned …