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London, 1 September 2026 - WGSN, the global authority on consumer and design trends, launches the WGSN Catwalks AI Dashboard, a new data-led platform that enables fashion professionals to analyse what is shaping the world’s catwalks as they happen.
Built to help designers, buyers, strategists and trend teams move from runway observation to evidence-backed action, the Catwalks AI Dashboard brings live catwalks data together in one visual platform, with daily updates. Users can filter the data by market, season, brand and city, allowing them to identify the signals most relevant to their business up to 24 hours post-show.
The Catwalks AI Dashboard complements WGSN’s existing Catwalks offering, which combines live show coverage with human expert analysis, data insights, commentary and seasonal wrap-ups. The new Dashboard provides a separate, interactive data-led experience for self-serve analysis. Users can work directly with the live catwalk data, applying filters, comparisons and detailed product analysis to create a view of the season tailored to their specific priorities and design criteria.
The launch addresses a longstanding challenge for fashion teams: understanding which runway moments represent meaningful movement and which simply stand out visually. By providing a measurable view across the wider catwalk landscape, the tool enables users to see what is rising, cooling or holding steady and drill deeper into individual products and sub-types.
The dashboard supports teams at multiple stages of the fashion decision-making process, from setting creative and colour direction and validating emerging trend signals, to comparing competitive positioning and bringing an earlier, data-backed catwalk view into assortment discussions.
Teams can also compare brands, cities and seasons side-by-side across a highly granular range of attributes, spanning product, colour, material and print through to fit, detail, trim, closure and tone. Users will be able to investigate competitive positioning, assess how direction is shifting between markets and validate trend calls using comparable data.
Insights and imagery can be brought together in interactive boards, with presentation-ready reports enabling teams to share their findings and build a clear, data-backed point of view across Design, Buying, Trend and other functions.
Carla Buzasi, CEO of the WGSN Group, said:
“Predicting what will appear on the world’s catwalks has been part of WGSN’s DNA since we launched nearly 30 years ago. This September, we take a significant leap ahead, pairing our teams of dedicated analysts, data scientists and fashion experts with the very best in AI technology to launch the WGSN Catwalks AI Dashboard. Born from very specific requests from some of our biggest clients, it enables designers, strategists and buyers to analyse the world’s runways in real-time, compare product, colour and style shifts and see how trends are evolving. Built on decades of proprietary, human-gathered catwalk data and run through our unique algorithms, it’s the most accurate read of the world’s runways. And we do mean the world! In addition to the big four cities - New York, London, Paris and Milan - the Dashboard covers fashion weeks from Shanghai to Madrid, Copenhagen to Rio, and more. We’re excited to launch this just in time for the next round of shows, putting invaluable, up-to-the-minute data and forecasts into the hands of the world’s leading brands.”
Kim Cupido, Catwalks Senior Strategist at WGSN, said:
“WGSN’s Catwalks AI Dashboard speaks a language designers and buyers inherently understand, seamlessly bridging the gap between rich visual inspiration and precise data analytics. Both elements are crucial to building the compelling story creative and commercial teams need to tell, allowing them to validate emerging directions, refine moodboards and curate seasonal assortments with confidence. When integrated with WGSN’s expert post-season analysis, the platform delivers a complete, actionable view of the evolving runway landscape.”
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