Fashion & Textile Forecast

This tool expresses macro trends using inspirational visuals, text and keywords, fashion colour combinations, and textiles swatches sampled from all over the world. A design and marketing forecast covering fashion, accessories, textiles, consumer archetypes, and styling. The forecast is personally conceived by Lidewij Edelkoort every six months, published in September for Spring/Summer season and in February for the Autumn/Winter season.

INSOUCIANCE: THE CHILD IN US Spring / Summer 2025

Recently, details from children’s clothes have slowly penetrated the fashion sphere, introducing ballooning sleeves, baby doll dresses, baby boy shorts and bobby socks, with baby Mary Janes to boot. This search for the naïve and the childish marks the beginning of a much broader quest for innocence, happiness and joy. Threatened by the extinction of our species (through the climate crisis and/or bots taking control) people are faced with doom and decide to sidestep our depressing times by lifting their spirits, travelling back to their childhood to recall the insouciance of being a kid. The child in us can become a powerful psychological tool; for example, when we write or draw with our wrong hand, we can become a toddler again and mentally incarnate childhood. Such liberating exercises help us reassess who we truly are and bring back a certain feeling of lightness; we feel content to be alive, curious about tomorrow. Healing major trauma and solving mysterious issues that lay dormant in our psyche and body. Brightening our days. — L.E.

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