Hey trend followers, how cool are you? If you were really cool, you would already know what I was going to be talking about and you would be wearing it right now. Since you probably aren’t, I’ll play nice and let you in on my little secret. Spotted on the streets of Austin, off Guadalupe and South Congress, on a mild weathered UT game day Saturday, I saw…galactic t-shirts. That’s right, planets! All the shirts spotted had a black background with a cosmic image printed on the front. ...

As we all know from watching The Devil Wears Prada, color and textile trends do not reach saturation overnight. As the sharp tongued Miranda Priestly pointed out, color trends such as cerulean start out in designer collections then eventually trickle down to the bargain bin at the Gap. This careful planning is why forecasters have to work years in advance to plan trends. Designers must have time to incorporate the new “it” colors and textiles into their collections. When you see one col...