THE GREAT MIGRATION: a romantic rural revolution spring / summer 2023 & beyond
September 21st
11:30 am - 1:00 pm (New York)
8:30 am - 10:00 am (West Coast)
16:30 - 18:00 (London)
17:30 - 19:00 (Paris)
Tickets
$295 General Admission
$200 Trend Union Clients
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.
– Lidewij Edelkoort
One of the world’s most renowned trend forecasters and colorists, Li is an intuitive thinker who constantly travels the planet tracking how socio-cultural trends evolve to influence concepts, colors, materials, products and services. She is also a publisher, humanitarian, educator and exhibition curator. Since 1992, Edelkoort has published View on Colour, Bloom and InView magazines; inspiring advertising-free visual publications that are design tools for creative professionals working in fashion, interiors, beauty and lifestyle.Her most recent endeavor is the World Hope Forum, dedicated spreading hope across the globe.