AUSTRALIAN COLOUR, FASHION & LIVING
AUSTRALIAN COLOUR, FASHION & LIVING
presented live online by Philip Fimmano
This session includes awe inspiring presentations such as. THE GREAT MIGRATION:Summer 2023 Fashion, Lifestyle & Interiors, PIGMENT PROPHECIES:Winter 2023-24 Fashion & Home Colour Forecast, PLUS OUR 2022 MILAN REPORT!
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
4:00 — 6:45 PM (Melbourne & Sydney)
6:00 — 8:45 PM (Auckland)
4:00 PM THE GREAT MIGRATION Summer 2023 Fashion, Lifestyle & Interiors
The year 2020 will remain in the history books as a moment of profound change in people’s lives. A great migration from urban to rural housing took place, deserting city centres in favour of village squares. This has become a shift in society to reckon with, where expensive and cramped city apartments are traded for houses, farms and more spacious lofts in secondary cities, towns and regions. Bringing culture and sophistication to the countryside in a hybrid movement, between the casual and the creative, spanning fashion, food, crafts and interiors. This move to the outdoors will have great consequences for work, life and happiness. A savvy new style is being developed that is born from the hybridisation of city and country clothes, of antique and innovative textiles, of vintage and contemporary patterns, of rustic and modern interiors. A strong romantic mood dominates these emerging lifestyles, with decorative elements and historical citations, perfectly absorbed by a contemporary mentality. Styling these disparate elements together becomes the true new fashion direction, where personalities are formed by informed choices, taken from the past and present to forecast our future.
5:00 PM 2022 MILAN REPORT Highlights from the Salone del Mobile
A review of the trends that were detected at the June, 2022 Salone Internazionale del Mobile, exploring the stand-out showrooms and designers both from the fairgrounds and at “off-Salone" exhibitions in central Milan. This inspiring visual presentation features Trend Union’s renowned in-house photography and connects the information to current and future tendencies.
5:30 PM PIGMENT PROPHECIES Winter 2023-24 Fashion & Home Colour Forecast
For those who like terracotta, ochre or brown today, it is eerie to reflect on the origin of those warm and lively colours. One feels directly connected to ancestors that lived up to four hundred thousand years ago, before modern humans even existed. Now we are well into the 21st century, biding our time during the end of life as we know it. The progress made over past centuries has taken its toll and emptied the earth, impoverished our soil and destroyed our forests, preventing new generations to flourish unless a consensus on circular living can be made; which, at this point, seems unlikely. This demands new substances and pigments to work with, made from renewable resources and creative recycled solutions. Our own colour can be coveted as a source of beauty and melanin is a substance to reckon with for the future, as are natural resources such as mushrooms and algae, crustaceans and food residues. Colour comes close to clothe us...
Studying archaeology and pigments can inspire us to make progress and write new scenarios for the future. Therefore technology will work on even newer materials that will colour our robots, garments and interiors while inspiring innovation; with pigments that heal and reach out to the human race, in its race against the clock. These almost alive substances are imbedded with information and will create emotional alliances with our customers, where clothes, objects and interiors become vehicles for learning and self-expression. Making us an intrinsic part of a brave new world.
6:30 PM DISCUSSION
6:45 PM APPROXIMATE END