Trend Union Trends & Textiles AW 26/27 - Instinct

Trends & Textiles – Autumn/Winter 2026-2027 is a Trend Union trend book by trend expert Lidewij Edelkoort, offering a comprehensive trend tool for general trends and tendencies of the newest season. All her trend tools are handcrafted, published in limited editions, and distributed worldwide.

The book is available as a physical edition, including color swatches and harmonies, fabric samples, images, and text. Each trend book also comes with a PDF featuring the images.

 

Trend Union Trends & Textiles AW 26/27 – INSTINCT

Without instinct, we lose control of our inner selves and become vulnerable to the accidents of existence. Without the intuition required to create new visions and innovative ideas, we risk repeating the same patterns and turning into living algorithms, drawing solely from our internal database — a bank that rarely gets tested or validated because our instinct for self-reflection seems 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 grounded and respectful toward all living beings, in an animistic sense of inclusion and belonging. Like cats, we will sense danger and build alliances; like dogs, we will protect our loved ones and play hide and seek. Like birds, we will sing to each other while gathering sticks to build our nests. Like sheep, we will flock together for comfort, and like cuddles, we will soothe our pain.

The times are critical, with the destruction of democracies and a loss of respect for humanity looming large.

Fashion reflects the instinctive and ritualistic rules of design — to protect and thrive, to fight for equality, and to forsake the self in artistic and idealistic practices, gaining the confidence to live life as it was meant to be lived. With the lifesaving instinct of aesthetic activism.

– Lidewij Edelkoort
Paris, 12/12/2024

 

Trend Union Trends & Textiles Autumn/Winter 2026-2027 explores seasonal insights into trends, colors, and textiles. It features trend stories with inspiring texts, mood boards, captivating photography, patterns, color samples dyed on cotton materials, and fabric swatches.

This book is designed to cater to the entire value chain of a business. Teams across design, purchasing, production, sales, and marketing can use this trend book as a guideline for development.

The large and visually stunning trend book provides a specific, commercial, and unique insight into the upcoming season. Published in a limited edition of just 250 copies, it is produced and printed in Paris.

Trend Union Trends is released twice a year: the AW edition in spring and the SS edition in autumn.