Leigh Gallagher is a Trend Expert, Senior Head of Innovation+Design with 15+ years of experience in Australia, US and the UK retail industry. She has designed and developed on-trend ranges from concept through to in-store execution for global brands and young fast-fashion brands, forecasting future thinking concepts to drive newness & innovation.
I’m currently available for consulting projects + customised trend services.
I’m currently based in Sydney, returning to Australia after 4 years of living in NYC. Prior to that I spent many years living in Melbourne, Australia, travelling the world to analyse trends everywhere from Gothenburg, LA, Tokyo, Seoul to Shanghai.
Leigh uses her creativity and strategic thinking to study new behaviours and develop business insights for brands that want to understand their consumer. Her USP is helping clients understand the importance of the forecasting process; by understanding the role data and analytics play and how trends and insights can be turned into specific measurable and profitable actions aligned with the overall business goal.
LG Trend+Design Consultancy
With a commercial eye to forecast global trends, Leigh specializes in customized trend services – from consumer culture and macro trend strategies to color, key trends, shapes, prints, fabrics and textures. Her clients vary in industry from fashion and lifestyle to interiors & beauty. Specialising in Youth Culture, she navigates the ever-changing consumer landscape by identifying key drivers that underpin emerging social trends, looking much further than catwalks.
Fossick Trends
As a Freelance Trend Forecaster, she curates trend reports for Fossick Trends, a marketplace for independent Trend Forecasters to showcase and sell their own work:
Customised Trend Services
Working with brands to forecast seasonal trend reports. My clients vary in industry from homewares to fashion and beauty. One of my biggest clients is a successful bedding company:
Today, I consult for a variety of international brands and also feature as a Guest Lecturer at RMIT University’s Associate Degree course in Fashion & Technology, presenting a Trend Forecasting Workshop' to new students on the Capstone project.
RMIT Capstone Industry Partner Project X Factorie