The renowned design forecaster Li Edelkoort has researched numerous ideas to curate a portfolio of stunning examples for the future. In contrast to our troubled era, rugs are back in art and design as an aesthetic antidote. If the rug can be considered a key reflection of culture, it is conveying with a sense of urgency the need to come together and rejoice in what is human and convivial, that which brings us together and ignites empathy. The rug as manifest.

Join Philip Fimmano for another inspiring trend webinar presented especially for Australian design professionals. Philip will share the lastest forecast by Li Edelkoort and Trend Union Fashion and Colours and for Home & Interiors for Spring Summer 2025. In addition, her will present the beautiful Uxua Utopia presentation on Interiors and Hospitality.

Join Li Edelkoort for a free webinar to celebrate Valentine’s day. Forecasting colours & fashion concerning Spring/Summer 2025. Her inspiration is Candy Culture & the message is Sweet!. Don’t miss this chance to meet each other, we have so much to share!

Candy Culture, Sweet Spring Sweet Summer 2025

Only some candy has the gift for providing essential neutrals, as found in liquorice and nougat, both responsible for elegant summer clothes that celebrate the comeback of formal fashion. Even more chic and stylish are the darkest ranges of réglisse black and chocolate brown, chosen for their presence in immense renderings of the spring suit and the summer dress. Adorable shoes are part of this candy craze and continue a discourse of blown-up proportions and viscous materials, giving the silhouettes a distinct Minnie Mouse allure.

As a case in point, colour is out to prove its hegemony above and beyond all other parameters of fashion and design. Having been banned, shunned and even vilified for a quarter of a century, now during the most difficult timeframe since the Second World War, colour will take revenge by drawing up an astounding picture of wild creativity, steering fashion design out of control

Tickets

$275 General Admission

$150  Current Trend Union Subscribers

Recent events continue to challenge our sense of humanity on an international scale and so the next edition of World Hope Forum has gathered speakers who practice mending, caring, and giving; a hopeful attempt before the Holidays to knit society back together. Curated by Phillip Fimmano

Registration is FREE

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. 

Tickets

$320 General Admission

$220 Current Trend Union Subscribers

We all need to be united at the forefront of good practice and human kindness, choosing quality over quantity – and be aware, that isn’t a question of money. In this forecast, the same ideas are generated for the monumental and the domestic, the expensive and the affordable, the absolutely great and the infinitely small.  All people can join in the same sublime ambition, sharing identical, original ways of creation. The consumer becomes the collector, curating their own existence.

Tickets

$320 General Admission

$220 Current Trend Union Subscribers

Yarns are the threads that bind us. Spun from animal fibres, farmed from nature, innovated in labs or unravelled from waste, they are currently at the forefront of contemporary culture with the exciting return of creative knitwear and crochet — simultaneously an expression of craft, resilience and protest but also a trendy way to combat the onslaught of digital technology and intelligence. Come learn more about how yarns relate to identity, circularity, diversity, empowerment, environment and social change. Now, more than ever, we will savour their federating power and celebrate the knit of togetherness.

Join Philip Fimmano for another inspiring trend webinar presented especially for Australian design professionals. Philip will share Trend Union's latest forecast for Home & Interiors as well as Fashion, Colour & Textile trends for Winter 2025. In addition, a short Trend Report will explore highlights from this year’s design fairs in Milan and Paris.

Join Li Edelkoort for the world première of her latest Colour & Fashion forecast! In an unexpected mood that transports us back to insouciant days to get in touch with our inner child, we suddenly crave candy for a sweet spring and an even sweeter summer. Moments of oomph in a world of anguish, fencing off the fear we have of war, climate abuse and the encroaching loss of self, when the bots take over

Tickets

$325 General Admission

$220 Current Trend union Subscribers

Join Philip Fimmano and Teresa Robinson at Living Threads Studio for the launch of our latest publications PROUD SOUTH and UXUA UTOPIA, featuring a special pop-up by Noir Mud Silk and I Owe You, with Andean music by Lucho Rodriguez! PROUD SOUTH is a mesmerizing visual experience that celebrates the creative forces from the southern parts of the planet. Similarly, UXUA UTOPIA is a collector’s object that reinvents the coffee-table book by combining the lifestyle elements of design, art, food, craft, and travel to explore the Uxua hotel’s achievements in establishing humanitarian values for a new world

This is a free event

We are pleased to announce a live seminar with Philip Fimmano, our first on the West Coast since the pandemic! 

Tickets

$250 General Admission

$200 current Trend Union Clients

Join Philip Fimmano for 11th edition of the NYCxDESIGN Festival as he presents THE GREAT DISRUPTION: 2024 Lifestyle, Home & Interiors, The Milan Report & Origin: Design, Art & Cultural Trends

Tickets

$250 General Admission

$200 current Trend Union Clients

Join Philip Fimmano & Ragna Froda for a pop-up trend event to celebrate the launch of Proud South & Uxua Utopia. This free event features Li Edelkoort’s inspiring new fashion audiovisual set to music & running every 30 minutes. Our latest trend tools & publications are also on view.

Part of the 11th edition of NYCxDesign Festival & in partnership with Slash Objects.

Design and fashion react and swing in protection mode, wanting to take care and heal, swaddling their collectors, holding tight, and caring for people of all ages. Swaddling is usually used to give infants the feeling of the safety they crave after leaving the protective warmth of the womb. The effects of such hermetic wrapping are visible in the overwhelming return of knitwear as a category of its own; no longer just an afterthought, it is a head-to-toe, day in day-out, morning-to-evening phenomenon to reckon with. Hibernating while rolled up in sweaters, cardigans, and blankets helps the body combat emotional stress and slow down the metabolism in order to use less energy of all kinds. Conditioning us as a survival mechanism.

Tickets

General Admission $350

Current Trend Union Clients $250

Join Li Edelkoort and Philip Fimmano for a 90-minute live webinar to discuss CREATING CHARACTER. Tickets include a shipped copy of Talking Textiles Issue #7 valued at $100. The pair will discuss textile trends and innovation from around the world, focusing on how characters can counterbalance a loss of passion for dressing up and how the creative community is working hard at keeping the memory of textiles alive with extraordinary characters created from scratch, waste, and shreds.

Tickets $95

Students & Faculty are free

We are pleased to announce a special edition of the World Hope Forum, curated by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross, WHF Ambassadors for the Arts. This webinar coincides with the global launch of their new book Your Brain on Art: How The Arts Transform Us; an insightful publication that shares the new science behind humanity’s evolutionary birthright — to make and behold art and its power to transform our lives.

Join Li Edelkoort for an inspiring webinar on her two most recent trend forecasts: SWADDLING color trends for Autumn Winter 24-25 and DENIM CLINIC, Radical Repositioning. The session is followed by a Q&A session with Li.

Tickets

$300 General Admission

$200 Trend Union Book Clients

For the first time, the World Hope Forum will span the vast Canadian terrain of creativity from east to west, bringing to light big and small stories of hope. From socially engaged entrepreneurship and exchange to the use of local materials, the development of an open design archive, and co-creative textile partnerships beyond its borders, a lineup of creative makers and thinkers will take us on an inspirational journey.

Registration is free

JOIN PHILIP FIMMANO & DAVID CLARK FOR ANOTHER INSPIRING TREND SEMINAR, PRESENTING NEW COLOURS, MATERIALS & CONCEPTS FOR FASHION, TEXTILES, INTERIORS & LIFESTYLE. DON’T MISS THIS ACCLAIMED ANNUAL WORKSHOP FOR CREATIVES & RETAILERS IN ALL INDUSTRIES.

Tickets

AUD $350 per person

AUD $295 per person Early Bird

JOIN PHILIP FIMMANO & DAVID CLARK FOR ANOTHER INSPIRING TREND SEMINAR, PRESENTING NEW COLOURS, MATERIALS & CONCEPTS FOR FASHION, TEXTILES, INTERIORS & LIFESTYLE. DON’T MISS THIS ACCLAIMED ANNUAL WORKSHOP FOR CREATIVES & RETAILERS IN ALL INDUSTRIES.

Tickets

AUD $350 per person

AUD $295 per person Early Bird

In the wake of the pandemic, the Great Disruption is on its way to thoroughly changing society to its core, transforming all aspects of life and design in its wake, and rejuvenating culture from a most radical point of view. People are migrating from urban to rural housing and resigning from their jobs to become autonomous, leading to clothes that are comfortable and constructed at the same time. The need for change is so great that some will even disappear down the rabbit hole called the internet, hiding in a world of spellbinding imagination where dreams are animated and outfits captivating. — L.E.

Tickets

$350 General Admission

$250 Trend Union Book Clients

PROUD SOUTH is a mesmerizing visual experience that celebrates creative forces from the southern parts of the planet. Through the colorful and expressive lens of contemporary fashion, photography, styling, and art, Li Edelkoort and Lili Tedde have brought together emerging and established talents from wide and far. A copy of proud south is included in the ticket price please make sure to enter your full address at checkout.

General Admission $100

Join Lidewij Edelkoort and renowned figures from the design industry to discuss hope, disruption, and creativity in today’s ever-changing world. Li will be in conversation with Hella Jongerius, Victor Sonna, Brynjar Siguròarson, Cynthia Hathaway, Bokja, and others. This session is part of Dutch Design Week 2022 and celebrates the acquisition of the Edelkoort Collection by the Van Abbemuseum.

Registration is free

Join Li Edelkoort, Philip Fimmano, and invited international speakers for this not-to-be-missed annual textile conference, as part of New York Textile Month and the Talking Textiles educational initiative.

Tickets

FREE for students & faculty

General Admission: $100 (includes a copy of Talking Textiles magazine)

Ireland has a deep tradition of sustainable textile making, from its crisp linens to its wooly tweeds. Spanning fashion, home, craft, folklore, and national identity, this special edition of the World Hope Forum coincides with the seventh annual New York Textile Month.

Curated by Antonia Reilly-Parker, WHF Ambassador Ireland

Registration is free

As part of New York Textile Month, meet Li Edelkoort online as she unveils her new book, PROUD SOUTH, for the first time ever! She will be joined by the Indian designer and textile activist, Kavita Parmar, to discuss southern identity and artisanal fabric production. This is a 90 minutes webinar and a copy of the book PROUD SOUTH is included in the ticket price.

Tickets

General Admission $100

includes a copy of PROUD SOUTH

We have been discussing craft for several seasons and have seen a gentle and gradual amplification in the fashion market. But now something else seems to be happening feels like a paradigm shift from the industrial to the crafted, from the serial to the unique, and from the fast to the slow; sometimes exasperatingly slow which is a new way to test our patience. Provoking another way to conceive fashion, thinking stitch first and foremost, and letting all other ideas fall into place at their own pace.

Tickets

General Admission $350

Presented live online by Philip Fimmano. This session includes awe inspiring presentations such as. THE GREAT MIGRATION:Summer 2023 Fashion, Lifestyle & Interiors, PIGMENT PROPHECIES:Winter 2023-24 Fashion & Home Colour Forecast, PLUS OUR 2022 MILAN REPORT!

Tickets

AUD $275 per person