Thursday, January 16th
TREND UNION LIVE SEMINARS IN AUSTRALIA
Presented by Philip Fimmano
Summer 2026 Colour, Fashion & Textiles
2026 Home, Design & Interiors
Start 2025 with an inspiring afternoon looking at international trends, social shifts and uplifting ideas to design with creativity, hope and joy.
Philip Fimmano returns to Australia this January to bring Trend Union’s renowned research to industry leaders and design professionals.
Programme:
2:00 Doors open
2:30 THE ANATOMY OF FLUIDITY: Summer 2026 Fashion & Textiles
3:00 THE ANALOGY OF FLOWERS: Summer 2026 Colour Forecast
3;30 Break
3:45 INTERIOR CHILD: 2026 Home, Design & Interiors
5:00 Approximate end
Tickets:
AUD $275 per person
Early Bird rate: AUD $200 per person (until December 8th)
Bookings of 4+: AUD $200 per person
ANATOMY OF FLUIDITY
Spring / Summer 2026 Fashion & Textiles
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.
ANALOGY OF FLOWERS
Spring / Summer 2026 Colours & Trends
The surprising analogy of flowers and fashion, petals and palettes, stems and structures, and foliage and fluidity never cease to amaze, installing a sense of wonder. Clothes will be crafted from the shapes of botanical beauty and coloured from its shades, becoming excessive pieces of highly desirable design, alongside florals that inspire the hues of accessories, make-up and textiles. Unusual colour combinations that take perception out of the mainstream, following nature on its amazing quest for contrast and attraction, inviting our stomach butterflies to wake up in the fluttering fashion sense, embracing the fluidity of flowers. Palettes will range from the invisible to signal colours, from dull and dusty, to dreamy to dense and desirable, in an overtly erotic sense.
Never has colour been more sophisticated and moodier, moving from shade to shade and tone upon tone in a never-ending close-up on similar directions. The analogy of flowers and fashion is therefore an organic flow of constantly shifting ideas, guided by the times we live in and the art we will want to cultivate. For now, a garden of earthly delights.
INTERIOR CHILD
2026 Home & Interiors
Recently, details from childhood have slowly penetrated the fashion and lifestyle spheres, introducing a more naive approach to design and colour. This search for the childish marks the beginning of a much broader quest for innocence, happiness and joy. Threatened by the extinction of our species (through the climate crisis and / or bots taking control) people are faced with doom and decide to sidestep our depressing times by lifting their spirits, travelling back to their childhood to recall the insouciance of being a kid. The inner child can become a powerful psychological tool; for example, when we write or draw with our wrong hand, we can become a toddler again and mentally incarnate childhood. Such liberating exercises are inspiring contemporary designers to help us reassess who we truly are and bring back a certain feeling of lightness and freedom; we feel content to be alive and curious about tomorrow. This forecast is therefore a timely learning curve that includes creating furniture from cardboard to building house, drawing, sculpting, painting, exploring, imagining, flying, and most importantly, cuddling. A major movement that simultaneously helps heal trauma and solve mysterious issues that lay dormant in our psyche and body. Brightening our days with items for the home that exude joy as an antidote to our morose times. — L.E.