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Spring/Summer 2027 Colour & Trend Preview

3 Jun 2025 from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
TREND UNION

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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.

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025
17:00 Paris CEST
11:00 New York EDT
8:00 West Coast PDT

Tickets €265 / $300 per person (general admission) 
Current Trend Union subscribers €175 / $195 per person (please contact your agent for your discount code)

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. 
@lidewijedelkoort
@worldhopeforum