Beth Eleanor Textiles Journal: Lidewij Edelkoort

Lidewij Edelkoort is one of the world's most renowned trend forcasters. She collaborates with other stylists, designers, managers, photographers and artists to create various trend books, publications and exhibitions. She also does various seminars and has her own design studio.

One of these creations are 'Bloom' magazine. We have all the copies in our uni library, and just like everyone else on my course, I'm in love. The magazine serves as an analytical image bank that provides inspiration for all creative artists around the globe. They're excellent resources for when you're looking for a certain mood or feeling that you want to relate to your work.

You can check out some of their stunning images from previous issues here;
http://www.edelkoort.com/editions/

I've selected a few of my favourite images from catalouges below, but they're actually all incredible.

Lidewij also produces many other publications such as 'Preview', which is put together a couple of months before other trend books to give an advanced insight of the upcoming season.
'Trend Book' expresses the trends using inspirational visuals, key colour combinations, explanatory keywords and texts as well as fabrics and materials that are sampled from all over the world which are put together by their Trend Union team. This is published twice a year in a limited edition - in September for the S/S and in February for the A/W season. Unfortunately I can't provide images from any of these, as they cost hundreds (and sometimes thousands!) of £££, so therefore are not available on the internet.

If you want to have nosy at the other publications they produce, they're all here;
http://www.edelkoort.com/trend_publication/