ILLUSTRATION

Autumn / Winter 2025/26 Colour & Fashion

presented live online by Lidewij Edelkoort

Fashion by Jean Jullien x Stereo vinyls

Thursday, January 25th 2024

8:00 AM — 10:30 AM  (West Coast)

11:00 AM — 12:30 PM (New York)

17:00 — 18:30 (Paris)

Program

Times are New York EST

11:00 AM Welcome

11:10 AM ILLUSTRATION — A/W 2025/26

Colours & Fashion presented by Li Edelkoort

12:00 PM Q&A with Li Edelkoort

Tickets

$ 275 General Admission

$ 150 Current Trend Union subscribers

For discount code for Trend Union Clients please contact ragna@edelkoort.com

ILLUSTRATION

Autumn/Winter 2025/26 Colour & Fashion

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. A great creativity illustrated by sketching, drawing, collages, cartoons and engravings, moving beyond and abstracting photography. Introducing posters that allow the word to be part of our world. Talking the language of colour. Several major societal and anthropological movements are gathering to assemble shades of happiness and solidarity. Focusing on empathy and hope, and a radical stance for beauty that will dominate the world of creativity, letting the spirit fly to escape reality. Acting like an overwhelming urge for self-defence. These movements include the powerful stylistic emancipation of all southern countries, the intimate retreat into our childhood, and the focus on disarming outsider art and design, coupled with amateur participation in the creative process.

 — L.E.  

Li Edelkoort is a trend forecaster, publisher, humanitarian, design educator and exhibition curator. From 2015-2020 she was the Dean of Hybrid Design Studies at Parsons in New York where she founded a Textile Masters and the New York Textile Month festival. Her thought-provoking writings and podcasts have become increasingly popular at a time when she is regarded as an activist and champion for change. In 2020, she founded the World Hope Forum as a platform to inspire the creative community to rebuild a better society. She is also on the Creative Council for all of Gap Inc.’s fashion brands, advising the group on creative innovation and sustainable practice. In 2022, Edelkoort collaborated with Polimoda in Florence to establish an innovative new textile masters called From Farm to Fabric to Fashion.

@lidewijedelkoort @worldhopeforum @newyorktextilemonth @edelkoort.editions