Li Edelkoort
Trend forecaster for beauty, fashion, retail, consumer-electronics, interior design, automotive industries
A trend icon who looks to the future in order to provide insight into the trends of tomorrow, today.
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Li Edelkoort's 2025 biography
Meet Li Edelkoort
Li Edelkoort is a trend forecaster, publisher, humanitarian, design educator and exhibition curator. From 2015-2020 she was the Dean of Hybrid Design Studies at Parsons in New York where she founded a Textile Masters and the New York Textile Month festival.
Her thought-provoking writings and podcasts have become increasingly popular at a time when she is regarded as an activist and champion for change. In 2020, she founded the World Hope Forum as a platform to inspire the creative community to rebuild a better society.
She is also on the Creative Council for all of Gap Inc.’s fashion brands, advising the group on creative innovation and sustainable practice. Since 2022, Edelkoort has collaborated with Polimoda in Florence to establish an innovative new textile masters called From Farm to Fabric to Fashion.