Fashion & Textile Forecast

This tool expresses macro trends using inspirational visuals, text and keywords, fashion colour combinations, and textiles swatches sampled from all over the world. A design and marketing forecast covering fashion, accessories, textiles, consumer archetypes, and styling. The forecast is personally conceived by Lidewij Edelkoort every six months, published in September for Spring/Summer season and in February for the Autumn/Winter season.

ANATOMY OF FLUIDITY Spring / Summer 2026

The word fluidity has been circulated recently at an invigorated pace, taking on new meaning and depth. Now, this fluidity will inspire textiles to learn how to run, drape and pleat, imitating the personal human state of being, representing immense joy and great sorrow, and a myriad of alternative mind-frames in between. A fluidity of the mind that can lead to a fluidity of being, searching amidst neutral states of sexuality and belonging.

A fluidity of fashion that works with massive amounts of cloth to be moulded into shape, embracing garments with rapids of romantic detailing and whirlwinds of arrested movements, making even stiff fabrics look as soft as ice. Designing a fashion that seems to hover and never land. Garments that shudder and quiver in palpitating styles. Cascading waters and currents that change the perception of colour and material, tinting fluidity in a blurred vision, with hallucinating beauty. A fluid perspective that trains the body and the mind for survival, requiring stamina and endurance, as well as mindfulness. With still design principles for a spiritual approach.

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