Jennifer Castoldi

Jennifer Castoldi is the founder, CEO, and Chief Creative Director of Trendease International (www.trendease.com). Launched in April 2004, Trendease is an online design and style publication acting as a resource for the home fashion, design and lifestyle industries. Traveling extensively to gather visions and digital images from shops, showrooms, trade fairs, exhibits, and design shows in all the major design capitals and yet-to-be discovered gems, Trendease aims to inspire through the use of these images accompanied by interviews and articles. The Trendease International mission is to help leading-edge people gain a definite competitive and strategic advantage through a combination of fast-breaking information, breakthrough thinking and applied creativity.

In addition to Trendease, Ms. Castoldi works as an industry consultant and contributes to various local and international publications. She consulted in the Philippines, where she was recruited by the government as the European and American design trend expert for the Department of Trade & Industry design and marketing updating program. Ms. Castoldi is the author of the Market Edge Report, a cutting-edge review of emerging trends and future market intelligence. Another passion of hers is teaching. She also speaks at various industry events as well as private events. She holds an MBA from the International School of Management, Paris, a BS in Home Products Development & Marketing, and an AAS in Fashion Merchandise Management from the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, and is currently working towards her PhD. With an accomplished background in the lifestyle industries from retail buying and merchandising, product development and design, international sourcing, publishing, to interior decoration, she aims to inspire the industry through knowledge she has accumulated and continues to acquire. She has been honored by LDB Interior Textiles as well as Decosit, citing her as the “rising star” in the home fashion business. Currently she sits on Hershey’s Board of Packaging and Innovation.

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Some of Jennifer Castoldi’s Prior and Forthcoming Talks:

• Textiles: Trends & Innovations
  May 14, 2009, EWHT, NYC, US*
• The Wonderful World of Wallcoverings
  Feb. 9, 2009, Wallcoverings Assoc. Annual Convention Keynote Speaker, Florida, US
• Market Matters & Future Furnishings
  Feb. 4+5, 2009, Australian Intl. Furniture Fair with Decoration + Design Sydney, Sydney, Australia
• Inspiration & Innovation
  Jan. 16, 2009, Heimtextil, Frankfurt, Germany*
• Residential & Contract Inspirations
  Nov. 4, 2008, INTERNI & Decor Conference, Seoul, Korea*
• Major Evolutions & Visions on Trends
  Sept. 14+15, 2008, Decosit, Brussels, Belgium*
• Understanding Trends for Business
  Aug. 28, 2008, Lecture for Masters Students, Ifa Paris, Shanghai, China*
• What's Up Next - Lifestyle and Design Trends in China
  June 26, 2008, 100% Design Shanghai, Shanghai, China
• Gain a Competitive Advantage by Understanding & Utilizing Trends
  June 16, 2008, IGI Congress Keynote Speaker, Algarve, Portugal*
• The Intertwined Worlds of Furnishings & Design
  April 24, 2008, Ifa Paris, Shanghai, China*
• Opening Ceremony Trend Speech
  March 16, 2008, Famous Furniture Fair (3F), Dongguan, China*
• Understanding the Market & Original Design
  Feb. 24, 2008, China Knitwear Cotton Trade Fair (CKCF), Shanghai, China*
• Trends and Textiles
  Feb. 12, 2008, EWHT at the Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC, US*
• Design Britain
  Jennifer debates the design of the iMac, Jan. 20, 2008, Interiors Birmingham, Birmingham, UK*
• Trend Series
  Four new seminars each year, January 2006, 2007, 2008, Interiors Birmingham, Birmingham, UK*
• Must-Know Textile & Market Trends
  Jan. 12, 2008, Heimtextil – Trend Forum, Frankfurt, Germany*
• Today’s Best Textile Designers
  Nov. 16, 2007, Shanghai International Creative Industry Week, Shanghai, China*
• The Market Edge
  July 16-19, 2007, Daily lectures-The Manchester Furniture Show & Halo Showroom, Manchester, UK*
• Keynote Trend Speaker
  July 2007, Peng Xin International Home Textile Design Peak Forum, Shanghai, China*
• Keynote on Trends
  June 2007, Int’l Furniture Development Forum of China Furniture & Woodworks, Dalian, China*
• Keynote Speaker: China Home Textile Design Forum & Merger and Acquisition Seminar
  April 2007, Home Textile Industrial Park with Shanghai Textile Business & Industry Association., China Home Textile Association, Shanghai, China*
• Product Trends, Global Shifts & Catching the Consumer
  Nov. 2006, Gift & Home Trade Association, Ft. Myers, FL, US*
• How to be a Design Entrepreneur
  Oct. 2006, Parsons School of Design, Paris, France
• Emerging Trends for 2007 and Beyond
  Aug./Oct. 2006, Interiors EXPO West Coast/Midwest, Long Beach/Chicago, US*
• Cutting-Edge Trends & Lifestyle Shifts
  Aug./Oct. 2006, Interiors EXPO West Coast/Midwest, Long Beach/Chicago, US*
• Forward Thinking & Design Forward
  Aug. 2006, Canadian Gift & Tableware Association Gift Show, Toronto, Canada*
• Avant-Garde Product Trends & New Market Shifts
  July 2006, CMP for London Interiors, London, UK*
• Keynote Speaker
  May 2006, Color Marketing Group Regional Conference, NYC, US
• Product Trends: A Global Market Review
  March 2006, New York Home Textiles Market, NYC, US*
• Design & Marketing Updating
  March 2006, Product Development & Design Center of the Philippines, Cebu Furniture Industries Foundation, Fashion Accessories Manufacturers & Exporters, PDDCP Designers & Industrial Design Academe, Christmas Décor Producers & Exporters Association, Philippine Chamber of Handicraft Industries, Home Accents Group of the Phils., Inc., Chamber of Furniture Industries of the Phils., Cebu, Manila, Pampanga, Philippines.
• Product Design Trends from Present to Future
  November 2005, FutureDesignDays, Stockholm, Sweden
• Design Trends & Future Market Intelligence
  October 2005, WithIt, High Point, NC, US
• Design & the Future—Trend Forecast 2006
  October 2005, International Architecture & Interior Design Summit-Ministry of Construction,
  Beijing, China
• Global Trends… The Future is Now!
  October 2005, New York Home Textiles Market, NYC, US
• TV Time: Powerful Draw for Home Products
  October 2005, EWHT Power Breakfast, NYC, US
• Fresh Products, Colors, and What’s to Come
  July 2005, CMP for London Interiors, London, UK
• Hot Products & New Opportunities
  May 2005, SURTEX, NYC, US
• Salone Internazionale del Mobile Review
  May 2005, International Furnishings & Design Association, NYC, US
• Trendease Extracts & Tidbits
  May 2005, Executives Working in Home Textiles (EWHT), NYC, US
• Business Creation - An Entrepreneur’s Tale
  May 2005, St. Johns University, NYC, US
• Market Recap
  May 2005, International Furnishings & Design Association, NYC, US
• E-Tailing
  April 2004, International School of Management, Paris, France
• E-Commerce
  March 2005, International School of Management, Paris, France
• 5 MEs: The Future of Design
  February 2005, Parsons School of Design, Paris, France
• New Venture Creation
  Nov. 2004, Weller, Paris, France
• Taking Home Cutting Edge Trends
  Oct. 2004, New York Home Textiles Market, NYC, US
• Intl. Business of the Home Fashion Industries
  Oct. 2004, Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC, US
• Design & Management
  May 2004, Parsons School of Design, Paris, France
• *Denotes a unique Trendease Market Edge PowWow session

Contact

jennifer@trendease.com | Phone: +33.615.85.25.54 | 75 rue Caumartin, 75009, Paris, France