Skip to main content

Talking Textiles at LongHouse

Tue, 09/17/2024 - 11:55
Lidewij Edelkoort is a trend forecaster, curator, and design educator. 
Courtesy of the Artist

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.

New Brew From Kidd Squid

Kidd Squid Brewery and Almond restaurant have partnered to create a new sour pale ale whose cans feature artwork by Almond Zigmund.

Jul 31, 2025

News for Foodies 07.31.25

A fund-raiser at EECO Farm, supper club at Estia's Little Kitchen, a cocktail pop-up at Sag Harbor Tavern, a benefit at Arthur and Sons, and Mexico comes to the Surf Lodge.

Jul 31, 2025

Hampton Chutney Will Open in NoHo

Hampton Chutney, a culinary fixture on the South Fork since 1997, has begun construction on a new location at Astor Place in NoHo.

Jul 24, 2025

 

Your support for The East Hampton Star helps us deliver the news, arts, and community information you need. Whether you are an online subscriber, get the paper in the mail, delivered to your door in Manhattan, or are just passing through, every reader counts. We value you for being part of The Star family.

Your subscription to The Star does more than get you great arts, news, sports, and outdoors stories. It makes everything we do possible.