Li Edelkoort trend seminar and lunch SESSION 1 – presented by House and Leisure & Studio H at Babylonstoren

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For those who shape what comes next

On Friday, 20 February, we will host a rare and intimate gathering with Li Edelkoort – one of the most influential minds shaping fashion, food, design and culture today. The programme centres around a 2.5-hour Spring/Summer 2027 trend seminar, presented in depth, and followed by lunch designed by Studio H in collaboration with Babylonstoren. 

Arrival: 10:30
Seminar begins: 11:00 sharp
Location: Babylonstoren (more details to be shared on confirmation of reservation)

The forecasts to be presented

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!

EVERY ROOM WILL BE A LIVING ROOM
2027 — Design & Interiors
“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.

About Li Edelkoort

Li Edelkoort is widely regarded as the world’s most influential trend forecaster. Through Trend Union, she has shaped the strategic direction of brands from Zara to Prada, working across fashion, food, design, architecture, technology and retail. She is former Chairwoman of Design Academy Eindhoven, former Dean of Hybrid Design Studies at Parsons New York, founder of New York Textile Month, and co-founder of the World Hope Forum. Her recent publications include Proud South, Uxua Utopia and Proud South Craft.