Melbourne: BLANK PAGE: Spring / Summer 2022 + THE FUTURE OF LUXURY

BLANK PAGE: Spring / Summer 2022 + THE FUTURE OF LUXURY: Home & Lifestyle 2025

presented live by Philip Fimmano, Creative Director, Trend Union

Thursday April 8th

2:00 - 5:00 PM (Australian Eastern Time)

Tickets

AUD $295

AUD $220 (DIA & KBDi members)

current Trend Union forecast subscribers: Free

Venue 

NGV Clemenger Auditorium
180 St Kilda Road
Southbank VIC 3006
(enter via entrance opposite the Arts Centre)



PROGRAMME

1:30 DOORS OPEN

2:00 BLANK PAGE: Spring / Summer 2022

Paper has become powerful symbol and inspiration. While starting a blank page during the Covid-19 lockdown, we all grasped how we have to rethink everything from scratch, remodelling society and reconstructing fashion. The aspects of paper are akin to textiles and guide us to new qualities that are able to breathe and simply be. These exciting possibilities will deliver brand new forms of tactility that can be both neat and crisp, or wild & deconstructed. To design our future from a world of hope.

3:00 TEA BREAK

3:30 THE FUTURE OF LUXURY: Home & Lifestyle 2025

In the post-corona landscape, everything will change, starting with the pace at which we live. Our goal will not be to stop consuming beautiful things and products — our aim should be to make them sustainable and thoughtful, corresponding to the real needs of the moment, foregoing waste and avoiding the deluge of useless items. We will craft better solutions for our essential needs, and conscious clients will make more precise choices. Thus people will embrace trees and cherish plants, consuming less of everything while collecting more of the one thing they are most fascinated by. They will construct smaller but better homes, using smart storage to undo clutter; and they will dress with new codes of conduct, elevating the casual and creative. Fashion itself will make a comeback, with open source allowing consumers to self-make their treasures, from clothing to cars to culinary creations. Ultimately society will become more creative, taking things into its own hands, when the Age of the Amateur has finally arrived.

4:30 DISCUSSION with David Clark

* Guests who prefer to attend online can opt to do so by emailing ragna@edelkoort.com

* Seating will be staggered at the live event

* Guests agree to check-in using a QR code and wear a face mask while indoors

* Pending any changes in local Covid restrictions, the live event will be staged online