A/W 2027-28 Colour, Fashion & Textiles Trend Webinar

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TRADITION: Fashion & Textile A/W 2027-28

This book is the result of my personal quest to understand our times and read the chaotic, barbaric, irrational turmoil we are living through. Gradually, the world is shifting to the right, and then to the extreme right, almost unnoticed sometimes. The Silicon Six* are planning the overhaul of democracy and the founding of feudal provinces and city states, to literally divide and govern society while avoiding paying taxes. To overrule we the people; a moment when we will have to abandon our sovereignty to the hegemony of AGI.

Yet, the reason the world is turning to extremes and why governments are becoming authoritarian must have other reasons than purely political and economic ones.

I believe this is the result of the long loss of traditions that have left us bereft of emotions, of celebrations and rituals, of religions and spiritual practices, of family and even friends, of social cohesion. The digital age has already exacerbated our ongoing lack of purpose and managed to turn people into introverted citizens, unable to meet and flirt, uninterested in having sex and unwilling to congregate.

We therefore must design innovated traditions and curated conventions that are at once steeped in historic mores and manners, yet also completely contemporary and irreverent, blending periods, mixing ages and merging ancestral knowledge with intelligent technology. Something able to bring us together again. Inviting us to bond.

As always, fashion is proposing several answers to make people confident and self-aware, through perfected style insights. With a vengeance, we will embrace conventional clothes and spiritual garments, nostalgic outfits, magic crafts, ritual robes and outdoor outfits that can withstand wear and tear and time. This urgent desire to give form to innovated traditions might introduce an amazing fashion revival in its own right, igniting a wish to dress up and play the part.

– Lidewij Edelkoort

HABERDASHERY: Colour & Fashion A/W 2027-28

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.