A/W 2025/26 Colour & Fashion Webinar with Li Edelkoort 

ILLUSTRATION
Colours Autumn / Winter 2025

Thursday, Jan 25th

8:00 AM -  9:30 AM California (PST)

11:00 AM -12:30 PM New York (EDT)

17:00-17:30 Paris (CET)

including Q&A brainstorm with Li
As a case in point, colour is out to prove its hegemony above and beyond all other parameters of fashion and design. Having been banned, shunned and even vilified for a quarter of a century, now during the most difficult timeframe since the Second World War, colour will take revenge by drawing up an astounding picture of wild creativity, steering fashion design out of control. A great creativity illustrated by sketching, drawing, collages, cartoons and engravings, moving beyond and abstracting photography. Introducing posters that allow the word to be part of our world. Talking the language of colour. Several major societal and anthropological movements are gathering to assemble shades of happiness and solidarity. Focusing on empathy and hope, and a radical stance for beauty that will dominate the world of creativity, letting the spirit fly to escape reality. Acting like an overwhelming urge for self-defence. These movements include the powerful stylistic emancipation of all southern countries, the intimate retreat into our childhood, and the focus on disarming outsider art and design, coupled with amateur participation in the creative process. All these major transformative movements collide to consider colour as the epicentre of expression, from tinted sobriety to bright exuberance. This whirlwind of influences forms tornado-type vortexes able to pull people in to play and participate, with sometimes dizzying visual effects obtained by weaving, dyeing and pattern making. Introducing an activist mentality to a truly sustainable style of much less yet much more beautiful clothes.

— L.E.