
Culture
How Films Set Fashion Directions
From Matrix trench coats to Barbie pink, cinema keeps rewriting the store floor — and forecasters watch the credits as closely as the runway.
Culture tracks the sources feeding trends: films, records, games, sport, politics and the online communities where an aesthetic forms before anybody sells it. Pieces identify a signal early and estimate its travel time to retail. Useful to readers who need to see something coming rather than confirm its arrival.

From Matrix trench coats to Barbie pink, cinema keeps rewriting the store floor — and forecasters watch the credits as closely as the runway.