Photo Larissa Hoffmann
Wednesday, November 12th 2025
THE COOKBOOK OF COLOUR & THE FOOD OF FASHION Spring/Summer 2027 Webinar: Fashion, Textiles & Color presented live online by Lidewij Edelkoort
New York – 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
West Coast – 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM
London – 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Paris – 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Programme (New York EST times):
9:00 WELCOME & INTRODUCTION
09:10 THE COOKBOOK OF COLOUR: Spring / Summer 2027 colour & fashion
09:55 THE FOOD OF FASHION: Spring / Summer 2027 fashion & textiles
10:40 Q&A DISCUSSION WITH LI
11:00 Approximate end
Tickets:
General admission $295 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
General Admission attendees receive a miniature S/S 2027 trend booklet!
For special rates for freelancers, students, faculty, and press, please get in touch with ticketsnyc@edelkoort.com.
Photo Ann Wood
THE COOKBOOK OF COLOUR
spring / summer 2027 colour & fashion
Although cooking has been the favourite pastime of our century, we sense an even greater and deeper interest in culinary culture, exceeding all other influences and disciplines. Not only photographing food but preparing new dishes, people explore the overwhelming possibilities of flirting with flavour and creating unknown tastes, working with a multitude of proposals, from top chefs to amateur cooks to colour designers.
A tomato used to be red yet now comes in black, brown, purple, green and yellow! Therefore, this new colour forecast is a cookbook, building harmonies as if making a dish, assembling flavours in new ways, using fragrant memories to design emotional colourways and discovering unknown tints inspired by indigenous ingredients. With the appetizing plating of tints and accents, the immense joy of cooking will infuse new joy into the designing of colour, fashion, textiles and prints.
THE FOOD OF FASHION
spring / summer 2027 fashion & textiles
Food’s relationship with fashion inspires the making of perfect cloth, the dyeing of strange colour, the rethinking of pattern and proportion, and the longing for more conventional ideas, such as men’s suits in streetwear or using linen for workwear and silks in couture. Silk could in fact become the vanilla of the season, making everything fragrant and fantastic. Fashion still has a lot to learn from food, listening closely to product expansions and promotions, understanding that transformation is essential to progress, adopting seasonal tastes by the week, blending opposites that attract, and believing in the power of taste.
A taste for ancient principles, when our ancestors created unique recipes, infuses flavour into innovation, encourages dialogue between diverse origins, and introduces wholesomeness as a keyword for the future, savouring generosity and grace, honesty and integrity, kindness and virtue. Bon appétit!
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.
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