Food, Fashion & Furnishings!
Australia, join Philip Fimmano live for 2 inspiring trend seminars previewing 2027’s Interiors, Colours, Materials & Styles!
Sydney: Wednesday, January 14th
Whitehouse Institute of Design
53-55 Liverpool Street
Sydney 2000
Melbourne: Thursday, January 15th
Whitehouse Institute of Design
Level 4 / 672 Bourke Street
Melbourne 3000
Photo Larissa Hoffmann
Tickets:
AUD $300 per person
Early Bird rate: AUD $225 per person (until December 1st)
Bookings of 4+: AUD $225 per person
Programme:
1:30 Doors open
2:00 THE COOKBOOK OF COLOUR: Spring / Summer 2027 Food, Fashion & Design
2:45 THE FOOD OF FASHION: Spring / Summer 2027 Fashion & Textiles
3:30 Short break
3:45 EVERY ROOM WILL BE A LIVING ROOM: 2027 Design & Interiors Forecast
4:45 Closing words
EVERY ROOM WILL BE A LIVING ROOM
2027 Design & Interiors Forecast
“Every room will be a living room” was the answer that flapped out of Li Edelkoort’s mouth when she was recently asked what the future of the living room would be? Afterwards, she reflected on that impromptu response and understood she was on to something. And indeed, this trend forecast argues that all rooms will become living rooms, whether it is the walk-in cupboard or the water closet, the entrance hall or the windowsill, the hobby hub or the family room, the lounge patio or the swimming pool. Since the sky is the limit of our imagination, people will want to live in small niches and decorative doorways, in a private boudoir or an esoteric bureau, in a live-in kitchen or a competitive playroom. Giving life to all spaces, making life an exceptional style, introducing life to new designs, colours, materials and finishes for 2027 and beyond.
Photo Ann Wood
THE COOKBOOK OF COLOUR
Spring / Summer 2027 Food, Fashion & Design
A tomato used to be red yet now comes in black, brown, purple, green and yellow, just like any garment or object. Therefore, this colour forecast is also 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 appetising plating of tints and accents, the immense joy of cooking will infuse energy into the designing of colour for fashion, prints, textiles and lifestyle accessories.
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 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!
PHILIP FIMMANO is an Australian-born Paris-based foresight analyst and consultant at Trend Union, working in publishing and strategic studies for global companies in fashion, textiles, interiors and lifestyle. In the A&D sector, he has consulted for Mohawk, Tarkett, Interface, Rubelli and Obeetee, while in hospitality, clients include Singita Private Game Reserves. As an art historian and curator, he has created exhibitions for prominent museums and biennales, including the Arnhem Fashion Biennale, Textielmuseum in Tilburg, Design Museum Holon and 21_21 Design SIGHT in Tokyo. In 2011, Fimmano co-founded Talking Textiles with Lidewij Edelkoort; an ongoing initiative to promote awareness and innovation in textiles through touring exhibitions, an annual publication, a design prize and educational programmes. He is also a founding board member of New York Textile Month and serves on the boards of F.I.T.’s Textile Department, the International Folk Art Market in Santa Fe and the Xtant artisanal festival in Mallorca. Fimmano works in creative education at several international institutions, is the co-author of the design book A Labour of Love (Lecturis, 2020) and the co-founder of the World Hope Forum, an online platform for creative community building and sustainable practice.
