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LIVE seminar in Copenhagen
LIVE seminar in Copenhagen
Li Edelkoort
Li Edelkoort
Lifestyle · Fashion · Trends · Textiles · Colours
October 1st, 2026TREND SEMINAR NO. 1 - FASHION & TEXTILES SS 2028TREND SEMINAR NO. 2 - DESIGN & INTERIORS 2028
Li Edelkoort trend seminar
Colours & Trends SS 2028
Trend seminar no. 1
Glass is a hybrid known for fragility while hiding its solidity and can be considered a liquid because of its fluid nature. These contradictory qualities make it one of the most magical and versatile materials of all time. Hovering between two states of matter, it is an amorphous solid, which also perfectly describes the current state of fashion which is amorphous; a period without clearly defined shapes, allowing various silhouettes to co-exist in one collection, on one body. Therefore, fascinating as a cultural inspiration and a reflection of our times, glass is the material of the moment in both fashion and design, set to influence the years to come with a multitude of colour harmonies, textiles, garments and forms.
Talk 1 - Haberdashery: Colour Forecast
The first talk at the seminar will focus on colour and style trends.
Today, most design details live on the edge: trimming iconic jackets, piping modernist grids, pleating famous shirts, smocking playful bloomers. Metallic hardware adds contrast in this otherwise hedonistic realm, creating tension between familiar luxury looks and creative audacity – from gilded buttons to razor blades and safety pins. Buttons are a category of their own, expressing culture and couture, with materials like mother-of-pearl, wood, leather, bakelite, and ceramics. These haberdashery extremes define heritage, show pedigree, and shape a brand’s signature. They drive major colour and style movements, co-creating trends that are functional and emotional, reviving codes of dressing up: button-down collars, buckled belts, pleated rosettes, wool pompoms, knitted mittens, felt hats, and soft leather gloves. A shop of wonders hidden in drawers and displayed in a cabinet of curiosities – ready to bring playful charm back to fashion and colour.
Talk 2 - Tradition: Fashion & Textiles
The second talk at the seminar will focus on fashion and textiles.
This forecast explores the chaotic and extreme shifts in our world. Political, technological, and social forces are challenging our sovereignty, while the long loss of traditions has left people disconnected from rituals, celebrations, and social bonds. The digital age has intensified this isolation, turning many into introverted, disengaged citizens.
We must therefore create innovated traditions – conventions that blend historic mores with contemporary irreverence, merging ancestral knowledge with technology, and inviting people to connect and bond again. Fashion plays a key role, offering garments that inspire confidence and self-awareness: from conventional and spiritual attire to nostalgic, ritual, and practical outdoor wear. This revival of tradition could spark a broader fashion renaissance, encouraging playfulness, ceremony, and the joy of dressing up.
Date
Trend seminar no. 1
Theme: Fashion & textiles
Date: October 1st, 2026
Address: Den Sorte Diamant
Søren Kierkegaards Plads 1
1221 København K
Program
DK time
09.00 – 09.30: Check in and light breakfast
09.30 – 11.30: Trend talk
11.30 – 11.45: Q&A
Please note:
The seminar will be conducted in English
Price
DKK 3.600,- / EUR 482,-
Limited tickets
For interest in both events, write to konference@pejgruppen.dk for a special price.
Prices are shown in Danish kroner and exclude VAT.
The price is per participant.
DESIGN & INTERIORS 2028
Trend seminar no. 2
Recently the language of art and design has become similar; two domains proposing similar points of view of our current chaotic and fearful lives. Both are concerned with the planet and its people, its fluidity and diversity, its romantic brutalism, and its ruins to be picked up as valuable resources for creation. Both insist on telling stories but also try to seek refuge in the abstraction of modernism. Making sense of the present while opening up to possible futures.
The art of living becomes the new goal, profiting from personal choices and indulging in strange combinations, exalting in unique finds, mixing old and new, making the most of all moments. A common ground for a culture that seeks to appease and ground people, healing as a prerequisite for a better existence, creating a safer place. A fascination with aesthetics as a moral medication that allows us to design and communicate, transforming consumers into collectors, and raising awareness about the benefit of beauty.
Talk 1 - Haberdashery: Colour Forecast
The first talk at the seminar will focus on colour and style trends.
Today, most design details live on the edge: trimming iconic jackets, piping modernist grids, pleating famous shirts, smocking playful bloomers. Metallic hardware adds contrast in this otherwise hedonistic realm, creating tension between familiar luxury looks and creative audacity – from gilded buttons to razor blades and safety pins. Buttons are a category of their own, expressing culture and couture, with materials like mother-of-pearl, wood, leather, bakelite, and ceramics. These haberdashery extremes define heritage, show pedigree, and shape a brand’s signature. They drive major colour and style movements, co-creating trends that are functional and emotional, reviving codes of dressing up: button-down collars, buckled belts, pleated rosettes, wool pompoms, knitted mittens, felt hats, and soft leather gloves. A shop of wonders hidden in drawers and displayed in a cabinet of curiosities – ready to bring playful charm back to fashion and colour.
Talk 2 - Tradition: Fashion & Textiles
The second talk at the seminar will focus on fashion and textiles.
This forecast explores the chaotic and extreme shifts in our world. Political, technological, and social forces are challenging our sovereignty, while the long loss of traditions has left people disconnected from rituals, celebrations, and social bonds. The digital age has intensified this isolation, turning many into introverted, disengaged citizens.
We must therefore create innovated traditions – conventions that blend historic mores with contemporary irreverence, merging ancestral knowledge with technology, and inviting people to connect and bond again. Fashion plays a key role, offering garments that inspire confidence and self-awareness: from conventional and spiritual attire to nostalgic, ritual, and practical outdoor wear. This revival of tradition could spark a broader fashion renaissance, encouraging playfulness, ceremony, and the joy of dressing up.
Date
Trend seminar no. 2
Theme: Home & Interior
Date: October 1st, 2026
Address: Den Sorte Diamant
Søren Kierkegaards Plads 1
1221 København K
Program
DK time
12.30 – 13.00: Check in
13.00 – 15.00: Trend talk
15.00 – 15.15: Q&A
15.15 – 16.00: Mingling with cava and cake
Please note:
The seminar will be conducted in English
Price
DKK 3.600,- / EUR 482,-
For interest in both events, write to konference@pejgruppen.dk for a special price.
Prices are shown in Danish kroner and exclude VAT.
The price is per participant.
Lidewij Edelkoort– Trend Guru #1
LI EDELKOORT is arguably the world’s most renowned trend forecaster, working in industries from fashion to food, design, lifestyle, beauty, communication, luxury and retail. Founded in 1986, her company Trend Union produces trend tools for strategists, designers and marketers at brands from Zara to Prada. She is also a publisher, humanitarian, educator and exhibition curator. Edelkoort has been named one of the Most Influential People in Fashion and one of the Most Influential People in Design. Her much-talked about ANTI_FASHION Manifesto, presented at BoF VOICES in 2016, raised awareness about the shifts and upheavals experienced in the global fashion industry. From 1998—2008 she was Chairwoman of Design Academy Eindhoven before moving to New York from 2015—2020 where she was Dean of Hybrid Design Studies at Parsons, establishing an MFA Textile masters and New York Textile Month. In 2020, in response to the covid-19 pandemic, she co-founded the World Hope Forum as a platform to inspire the creative community to rebuild a better society. From 2022—2025, Edelkoort collaborated with Polimoda in Florence where she created an innovative textile masters called Farm to Fabric to Fashion. Her latest publications are Proud South, Proud South Craft and Uxua Utopia, each of which celebrate the creative talent of the Global South.
Det siger tidligere deltagere
“Sammen med resten af Innoventi deltog jeg i strategikonferencen med pej gruppen – scandinavian trend institute. Det var en dag fyldt med inspiration, indsigt og konkrete værktøjer, vi kunne tage direkte med hjem.
Jeg blev særligt imponeret over, hvor godt faglighed, formidling og relevans gik hånd i hånd. Alt var gennemtænkt, aktuelt og til at omsætte i praksis.
Det er sjældent, man deltager i en konference, hvor man både bliver klogere, får nye idéer og går derfra med lyst til at handle – men det gjorde jeg her.”
– Alexander Fjelldal, kreativ leder hos Innoventi, Arendal
“Sammen med resten af Innoventi deltog jeg i strategikonferencen med pej gruppen – scandinavian trend institute. Det var en dag fyldt med inspiration, indsigt og konkrete værktøjer, vi kunne tage direkte med hjem.
Jeg blev særligt imponeret over, hvor godt faglighed, formidling og relevans gik hånd i hånd. Alt var gennemtænkt, aktuelt og til at omsætte i praksis.
Det er sjældent, man deltager i en konference, hvor man både bliver klogere, får nye idéer og går derfra med lyst til at handle – men det gjorde jeg her.”
– Alexander Fjelldal, kreativ leder hos Innoventi, Arendal
“Sammen med resten af Innoventi deltog jeg i strategikonferencen med pej gruppen – scandinavian trend institute. Det var en dag fyldt med inspiration, indsigt og konkrete værktøjer, vi kunne tage direkte med hjem.
Jeg blev særligt imponeret over, hvor godt faglighed, formidling og relevans gik hånd i hånd. Alt var gennemtænkt, aktuelt og til at omsætte i praksis.
Det er sjældent, man deltager i en konference, hvor man både bliver klogere, får nye idéer og går derfra med lyst til at handle – men det gjorde jeg her.”
– Alexander Fjelldal, kreativ leder hos Innoventi, Arendal
Det siger tidligere deltagere
“Sammen med resten af Innoventi deltog jeg i strategikonferencen med pej gruppen – scandinavian trend institute. Det var en dag fyldt med inspiration, indsigt og konkrete værktøjer, vi kunne tage direkte med hjem.
Jeg blev særligt imponeret over, hvor godt faglighed, formidling og relevans gik hånd i hånd. Alt var gennemtænkt, aktuelt og til at omsætte i praksis.
Det er sjældent, man deltager i en konference, hvor man både bliver klogere, får nye idéer og går derfra med lyst til at handle – men det gjorde jeg her.”
– Alexander Fjelldal, kreativ leder hos Innoventi, Arendal
“Den bedste strategi og det stærkeste samarbejde vokser, når man oplever ting sammen. Konferencen med pej gruppen gav både faglig inspiration, gode samtaler og masser af energi. Det var en dag, hvor man blev mindet om, hvor vigtigt det er at være nysgerrig – og hvor meget værdi der ligger i at dele oplevelser, viden og optimisme.”
– Benedikte Marie Kaalund, sekretariatschef, FOF Danmark
“Tak for en virkelig inspirerende og veltilrettelagt strategikonference. Det var berigende at få nye perspektiver og stof til eftertanke om, hvordan vi kan arbejde mere strategisk med både organisation og mennesker. Jeg blev særligt ramt af refleksionen over, hvor svært det kan være at forstå nutiden og samtidig planlægge fremtiden – en indsigt, der satte gang i mange tanker. Det var desuden en fornøjelse at få et bedre indblik i pej gruppens arbejde, som på alle måder viser stor faglighed og passion.”
– Majbrit Borup
