In celebration of New York Textile Month, Lidewij Edelkoort, a trend forecaster, publisher, humanitarian, design educator, and exhibition curator, will be at LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton this weekend for talks, a book-signing, and to receive the inaugural Larsen Textile Award.
Ms. Edelkoort, while Dean of Hybrid Design Studies at Parsons in New York from 2015 to 2020, founded a Textile M.F.A. program and the New York Textile Month festival. In 2020, she started the World Hope Forum as a platform to inspire the creative community to rebuild a better society. Two years later, she collaborated with Polimoda, a fashion school in Florence, Italy, to establish an innovative new textile master’s program called Farm to Fabric to Fashion.
On Saturday, starting at 2 p.m., Ms. Edelkoort will discuss her two books, “Re-Rug” and “Proud South: Fashion, Art & Photography From the Global South,” and the ideas they explore.
“Re-Rug,” her latest trendbook, is about the emerging creative trends in rugs and carpets. Ms. Edelkoort has researched numerous ideas to curate a portfolio of stunning examples. She maintains that rugs are back in art and design as an “aesthetic antidote.” If the rug can be considered a key reflection of culture, it is conveying, with a sense of urgency, the need to come together and rejoice in what is human and convivial, she has said.
“Proud South” celebrates the creative forces from the southern parts of the planet. Ms. Edelkoort has investigated multiple themes that connect designers from Latin America, Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, where fashion, style, materials, motifs, and colors are renewed in many ways. The author will sign copies of “Proud South” after her talk.
The weekend will continue on Sunday afternoon at 3 with the presentation of the Larsen Textile Award and a discussion of “Talking Textiles: Creativity and Awareness.”
A ticket for both days is $120. For Saturday only, the cost is $100, for Sunday only, $35.
