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Lidewij Edelkoort has an innate sense of what shapes culture. Using her intuition, she produces forecasts which are used by top fashion brands and Fortune 100 companies.

Li Edelkoort is one of the world's foremost trend forecasters.

KNIGHTKRAFT: Trend forecaster Li Edelkoort⁠ spoke earlier this year with @dezeen about her predictions for the return to the Arts and Crafts movement: "I'm craving fantasy – I don't know where it comes from, but it's there" she said. "I'm craving almost childish initiatives and design, I'm craving colour, I'm craving painting, motif and ornamental finishes."⁠ ⁠ ⁠ #knightkraft⁠ #erikaknight⁠ #creativeinspiration⁠ #knitwearinspiration⁠ #culturaldigest #trendforecast #artsandcrafts #liedelkoort

Issey Miyake and Muji among participants at first New York Textile Month

The Klekish print design, featuring crumpled bed sheets and nomadic symbols, was inspired by the Migration sofa now on display at the Museum of Eindhoven as part of the Li Edelkoort collection. This print captures the hopes, fears, and journeys of all who seek a new home.

Two innovative fashion-focused projects sprang from ideas and experiences during the first pandemic shutdown earlier this year.

The Lille Métropole 2020 World Design Capital La Manufacture: A Labour of Love exhibition looks back at the design world’s two-decades-long obsession with material experimentation.

Fashion is dead, trend forecaster Li Edelkoort has declared, describing the fashion industry as "a ridiculous and pathetic parody of what it has been".

Lidewij Edelkoort is one of the world’s most famous trend forecasters. As an intuitive thinker who travels the world studying the evolution of socio-cultural trends before sharing this information with her clients in industries as diverse as fashion, textiles, interiors, cars, cosmetics, retail and food. Under her Paris-based company Trend Union, Edelkoort creates trend books two or more years ahead that are tools used by strategists, designers and marketeers at international brands.

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The trend forecasting industry remains a relatively new phenomenon and the now unloveable terms ‘trendsetter’ and ‘trendy’ were not even coined until 1960 and 1962 respectively. Despite its infancy, there is one overlord who leads the guard in astutely packaging prophetic thoughts, and that’s Li Edelkoort. Following Li Edelkoort’s masterclass at NJAL’s multi-sensory pavilion at d3, it’s a timely moment to examine the significance of trend watching with the most influential trend forecaster…

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Whether it's our impending obsession with veils and turbans or our "global quest for decadence," Li Edelkoort knows what's coming. (You might not believe it.)