The year that brought us some inspired trends (see: bike-sharing programs and whole food diets, for example) also included a few truly bad ideas in the arenas of diet and fitness.
In ruminating over personal experience and confronting how private memories have -- although, in all of their modesty, they might not admit it -- inspired trends, the conversation turned to the nature of trends and their somewhat disparate relationship with memory.
We are the influencers in fashion, art and design who inspire trends.
Similarly, the clothing featured in the Lifestyle section is inspired by football-inspired trends, creating collaborations with brands such as Nike, adidas, Umbro, and PUMA to merge football and lifestyle through statement pieces including sweatshirts, jackets, track bottoms, and shirts.
The desire for beautiful nails has fueled an entire industry of nail salons and inspired new trends in nail care.
The au courant research direction, inspired by trends in Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, and Robotics, is to apply deep learning; let the database learn the value of each execution strategy by executing different query plans repeatedly (an homage to Google's robot "arm farm") rather through a pre-programmed analytical cost model.
McCue says the company was inspired by trends it saw both within its own user base, as well as with its advertising partners, like Levi's.
And like it or not, youth culture continues to be fascinated by melancholia and all things gothic, while traditional Mexican Day of the Dead costume has also inspired recent trends.
Inspired by trends from Asia, messaging apps like Telegram and Kik have adopted bots — automated accounts from third partners like publishers and brands — to serve users news, entertainment and other information inside the chat experience.
Cookbook authors go back and get inspired by trends of yore, and subtleties make their way back into pop culture.
Even Chelsea Clinton, who has never been known as a style setter, inspired a trend last year when she wore a Vera Wang strapless wedding gown, spawning rafts of copies.
