INSTINCT: Autumn / Winter 2026-27

Our seasonal Fashion & textile forecast includes fabric swatches, color swatches inpirational text and images. Comes with a complimentary pdf with the images of the book.

"Without instinct, we lose control of our inner selves and are prone to the accidents of existence; without the intuition needed to create new vision and innovative ideas, we are at risk of repeating the same patterns, becoming living algorithms ourselves, drawing from our internal data bank. A bank that isn’t bankable because it is rarely tried and tested, since our instinct for self-reflection seems to be numbed into oblivion.

Therefore, the time has come to embrace that inner voice which defines our most intimate and primitive instincts, as original as our origins. To be rooted and respectful of all living matter, in the animistic sense of inclusion and belonging. As cats we will smell danger and figure out alliances, as dogs we will safeguard our loved ones, playing hide and seek, and as birds, we will sing to each other about picking up sticks to build our nests. As sheep, we will flock together for comfort, and as cuddles, we will appease our pain. Times are dire and danger is imminent with the destruction of democracies and the abandonment of respect for our own kind. Fashion reflects the instinctive and ritualistic rules of design to protect and prosper, to fight for equality and forsake the self in artistic and idealistic practice, gaining confidence to live life as it was designed to be. With the lifesaving instinct of aesthetic activism. "

– Lidewij Edelkoort