ANALOGY OF FLOWERS - SS 2026
All aspirations from the beauty of the garden are welcomed as inspiration and can be followed for vital design ideas. We may look at drawings and scientific renderings, photography, painting, applications, as well as collage, beading and flower printing, outsider prints and ceramic decoration. Even buttons will start to look like flowers…
Hues will range from the invisible to signal colours, from dull and dusty, to dreamy to dense and desirable, in an overtly erotic way. 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. A delight to be seen and handled as plain studies or harmonies for various clothes, or as coloured wovens and patterns, and hand-painted tableaux.
The analogy of flowers and fashion is 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.
Lidewij Edelkoort Paris, 20 February, 2024
