Culture, structure, and the market interface: Exploring the networks of stylistic elements and houses in fashion

•Culture and social structure are co-constituted and yet can have their own logics.•Two-mode networks of stylistic elements and fashion houses are projected into one-mode networks.•Data (2008–2013) come from a trend forecasting agency and represent how the market is perceived by this central player.•Fashion seems to be highly clustered when all seasons are aggregated and less than expected at the seasonal level.•One mode networks of stylistic elements and fashion houses at the intermediary level present different patterns.