As Lulu Kennedy, the founder of Fashion East and chief talent spotter, said: "Designers in London don't think about the consequences, they think about the design process".
Robert Johnson, 28, is a trend spotter, or "chief," at Bla-bla.com, a Manhattan business that looks for promising Web sites and helps their creators turn them into full-fledged e-businesses.
Perhaps that is why Ann Mack, trend-spotter in chief for JWT, one of the world's largest advertising agencies, has proclaimed blue to be the new green in her list of 10 trends that will shape consumer behavior in 2008.
Based on reports from tornado spotters, the fire chief, Larry McMillen, said one tornado took a northerly route, while the second moved southeast through downtown.
When she was invited to substitute as an anchor for the first time, she recalls that the Fox News chief Roger Ailes, known as a talent spotter, said to her, "The only way you can disappoint me is if you try to hit a home run instead of a single".Fox viewers noticed Ms. Kelly almost immediately.
One must note that when the focus was on people, and not numbers, NBC excelled in reporting on Michael Waltrip's being upside down in his wrecked car -- with Parsons screaming, "Turn the thing over!" -- as well as in talking to crew chiefs and listening to spotters as they planned their strategies.
It's a company that uses the elder Greenberg's skill as a practiced knockoff artist to full effect: As chief executive Robert leads a group of style spotters who seize on all types of new shoes as soon as they hit the street.
Falling Water This eerie new drama revolves around three strangers — a bank security chief, a police detective and a professional trend-spotter — who gradually realize they are dreaming separate parts of a single common dream.
"We just now should start to see the benefits," said James W. Paulsen, the chief investment strategist at Wells Capital Management in Minneapolis and one of the recession spotters of 2001.
