BLANK PAGE: Spring / Summer 2022 + THE FUTURE OF LUXURY: Home & Lifestyle 2025
presented live by Philip Fimmano, Creative Director, Trend Union
Trend Union is pleased to stage another inspiring live trend seminar with Philip Fimmano & David Clark. We look forward to bringing international ideas back to Australia’s shores at a time when travel is a rarity - reconnecting with each other while respecting Covid safety.
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
SPEAKERS
PHILIP FIMMANO is an Australian-born trend analyst, design curator and writer, contributing to Trend Union’s forecasting books, magazines and strategic studies for international companies in fashion, interiors and lifestyle. With his partner Li Edelkoort, he has co-created exhibitions for museums and institutions around the world, including Tokyo's 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, Design Museum Holon and the Gaîté Lyrique in Paris. In 2011, he co-founded Talking Textiles; an ongoing initiative to promote awareness and innovation in textiles through touring exhibitions, a trend publication, a design prize and free educational programmes – including New York Textile Month, a citywide festival celebrating textile creativity each September. Along with Edelkoort, he is the co-author of the recently-published design book A Labour of Love (Lecturis, 2020) and the co-founder of the World Hope Forum, a new creative platform for community building. Philip teaches a forecasting masters at Polimoda in Florence and is on the board of directors for the International Folk Art Market in Santa Fe.
DAVID CLARK is an established figure in the interior design industry. His 30-year career has spanned the textile trade as well as architecture, design, marketing and publishing. As Design and Deputy Editor for Belle, as Editor-in-chief of Vogue Living – David gave voice to his particular focus on the idea of ‘Home’. He values texture, technology and the sensual experience of being human. He believes in the pursuit of beauty, the importance of curiosity, and the power of design to create a more civilized world.
* Guests who prefer to attend online can opt to do so by emailing ragna@edelkoort.com
* Guests are requested to enter the auditorium directly prior to the event, starting at 2 PM sharp
* Refreshments for this event will be available in the NGV Garden Bar, or pending rain, in the NGV Café
* Seating will be staggered at this 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