Oscar de La Renta Was New York Fashion Week’s Most Shared Show [Infographic]

And Other Data Trends This Season

We’re pretty big on using social media data to identify trends. The Style99 ranking of influential fashion bloggers was created to highlight the independent publishers who were gaining ground on institutional publishers through emerging media channels. This Fashion Week season marks our inaugural report highlighting the trends of each major fashion week as determined by social media actions.

Trend reports are normally based on what’s been shown on the runway. But the prevalence of a certain color or pattern doesn’t necessarily mean people are interested in it. Fashion will always be an industry for visionaries – creative people who push design ideas the mass market didn’t know they wanted until seeing them. That said, fashion shows and presentations are no longer industry only events. They’re part of the marketing mix to reach customers, and through social media the fan, editor, buyer and shopper can all contribute to the data that exposes where interest is highest.

That’s the idea behind our latest special feature on Fashion Week Trends. We crawled photos associated with nearly 200 shows, more than 5400 individual looks, and let the social media data tell the story. View the Top 25 shows from New York Fashion Week, as well as the Top 50 looks. Individual show rankings are available, with look metrics. The NYFW Runway Intel report combines all of the activity for a complete look at the colors, shapes and designers with the most interest.