HABERDASHERY
A/W 2027-28 Colour & Trend Preview
Tuesday, January 20th
New York – 10:00 AM – 12:00 AM
West Coast – 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM
London – 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Paris – 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
General admission $350 per person
Current Trend Union subscribers $195 per person (Please contact your agent for your discount code)
Bookings of 4+ can get 20% off the General Admission rate
For special rates for freelancers, students, faculty, and press, please get in touch with ticketsnyc@edelkoort.com.
Design by stephen jones
It seems today that most design details are on the edge: trimming a world-famous jacket, piping a modernist grid, pleating an iconic shirt, smocking a childish bloomer. Metallic hardware has its own role to play as a harder shade in this otherwise hedonistic domain, yielding diversion between the same-old luxury looks and creative debauchery, from gilded buttons to razor blades and safety pins. Buttons are a category all of their own, designed to express culture and couture equally, welcoming materials such as mother-of-pearl, wood, leather, bakelite and even ceramics, in true arts and crafts tradition. All these haberdashery extremes are now the most vital ingredients in fashion, defining heritage, describing pedigree and designing the handwriting of a brand.
This is the first decade since the Second World War that haberdashery is not only back but outlines what clothes are all about, narrating ideas of convention and tradition, telling stories of underwear as outerwear and how antique laces are proving essential as romantic beacons. Haberdashery will drive the major style movements and co-design trends that are functional and emotional, bringing back codes of dressing up such as button-down collars, buckled belts, pleated rosettes, woollen pompoms, knitted mittens, felted hats and soft leather gloves. A shop full of wonder hidden in multiple drawers and displayed in an enticing cabinet of curiosities — at our disposal to bring a playful charm back to fashion and colour.
Lidewij Edelkoort is arguably the world's most renowned trend forecaster, working in industries from fashion to food, design, architecture, tech, communication, automotive and retail. Founded in 1986, her company Trend Union produces trend tools for strategists, designers and marketers at brands from Zara to Prada. She is also a publisher, humanitarian, educator and exhibition curator. Edelkoort has been named one of the Most Influential People in Fashion and one of the Most Influential People in Design. Written in 2014, her much-talked about ANTI_FASHION Manifesto was the first to raise awareness about the shifts and upheavals currently experienced in the global fashion industry. From 1998-2008 she was Chairwoman of Design Academy Eindhoven before moving to New York from 2015-2020 where she was Dean of Hybrid Design Studies at Parsons, establishing an MFA Textile masters and New York Textile Month. In 2020, in response to the covid-19 pandemic, she co-founded the World Hope Forum as a platform to inspire the creative community to rebuild a better society. Edelkoort's latest publications include Proud South (2020), Uxua Utopia (2022), and Proud South Craft (2025), each of which celebrate the creative talent of the Global South.