Trendforschung: "Fetishism in fashion", Lidewij Edelkoort live @ filmpodium, Zurich

Wir hatten von der STF heute die Möglichkeit, Li Edelkoort, die wohl bekannteste Trendforscherin der Welt live zu sehen. Ein Mega-Ereignis, wenn man bedenkt, dass eine Teilnahme an einem ihrer Vorträge normalerweise um die 500.- kostet...Und: sie ist wirklich genial. Man könnte ihr stundenlang zuhören und sich inspirieren lassen. Schon ihre Erscheinung ist inspirierend:

Kurz zu den wichtigsten Trends, the "thirteen fetishes":

Nudism (long-lasting trend that uses colours of our own skin, skin & skeletal material, corsets & lingerie, erotic materials, torture machines, looks sometimes scary.
Sado-Masochism: sex and bondage on fashion, the human perversion of relating pain and pleasure to captivity and control, is dominant in lingerie, masks, hermetic type, painful shoes
Infantilism: dressing like a baby is a big movement / society trend, youngness/freshness/naivness, they are afraid of the future and want to become a baby again, wish to never grow up
Nipponism: Japan as the most fetishistic country of the world, packaged woman (Kimonos), folding geometry into form
Spiritualism: giving sense to the things, energy in clothes, dialog with clothes
Absurdism: comme des garcons, away from functional/daily to surrealism, dressed like clouds, sculptures
Romanticism: will continue in the 21 century, lace, details but also dark, Shakespeare, feathers
Legendism: Kleopatra, masks, details, Ikarus, saga of fiction, dramatic
Consumerism: dressed in waste, against overconsumption, young designers are crying: stop this! Warning sign
Regionalism: local not global, wooden shoes, handycrafts, fuller skirts, tales from historical and folk vernaculars
Patriotism: aggressive form, fighting sports, protective details from football and ice hockey, masks
Nomadism: more casual clothes, long coats, floating parkas, survival ideas, backpack, belts, survival masks
Shamanism: bones, comes from africa originally, animistic belief patterns,