... Otherwise ask mom or try a local seamstress." With the economic downturn, Paige Newman, editor of trend-tracker Zandl Group's Hot Sheet, predicts the emphasis will be on fun fashion instead of very formal styles. The dazzle will come from ...

... 500 people with a feel for the cutting edge). Almost every one of her competitors, outfits like Look-Look and the Zandl Group, boasts of a vast network of informers, whose predilections are carefully categorized and summarized and sold to corporate ...

... help," Guthrie said. But "Claire's has tons of stuff for under $5." Irma Zandl, a New York consultant whose Zandl Group specializes in market research among teens, tweens and young adults, said in an e-mail that, based on Five Below ...