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Heimtextil Showcases Top Textile Trends 2021/22

Heimtextil's internationally renowned design and trend experts present their future-oriented trend themes for the coming season.

4/28/2021
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FRANKFURT — Even in times of lockdown with a lack of physical sources of inspiration, the Heimtextil Trends give you an overview of tomorrow’s textile interior design. In cooperation with the Heimtextil Team, internationally renowned design and trend experts have analyzed current tendencies and prepared future-oriented trend themes for the coming season.

The first two decades of this millennium brought several challenges for industry and trade – above all, the current coronavirus pandemic. But crises are also drivers of innovations. In the textile industry, digitalization and sustainability are currently omnipresent innovation topics. The coronavirus pandemic ensures that both topics are becoming even more important in the home textile industry. Heimtextil Trends 21/22 provide an overview of the status quo of those developments.

REPURPOSE - From creation to curation


REPURPOSE describes a major process change in the development of textile products: We are no longer concerned with creating new products. Rather, we move on to curating existing textiles, creating a new visual expression. Unlike the traditional design process, which starts with an idea, REPURPOSE begins by considering what can be made from existing fabrics. REPURPOSE gives textiles a new purpose and enhances what has already been made.

REWILD - Back to the original


From generation to generation in our postmodern world, we have largely lost connection from nature. This has a crucial impact on how we understand and use the ecosystem in which we live. REWILD takes on the return to the original, wild state of nature and tries to explain the wisdom of nature in order to derive insights for our life and furnishing: Natural resources are rediscovered and applied in a new, modern context. The result is sustainable and regenerative solutions in product development. The visual and textile expressions of the REWILD trend focus on directions such as "Nature's lab", "Indigenous", "Wild" and "Basic Living".

REINFORCE: Scandinavian touch, minimalistic look


From short-lived to longevity, REINFORCE is about visual and compositional longevity within textiles and materials. It draws inspiration from how Scandinavian design merges design durability with pared back functionality. This approach, proven over time, adds heavy and enduring materials to create visual resilience.

Resilient expression and Brutalist architecture are key elements in the REINFORCE trend. To reinforce is to make something stronger. Longevity is a key influence on colors, materials and design. Distinct from REPURPOSE and REWILD, REINFORCE has a simple and bold Scandinavian mood with an honest and minimalistic look. Simple functionality and durability in design characterize the trend. The focus is on heavy and durable materials.

REVIVE - The creative process takes precedence over the product


REVIVE wants to encourage people to feel and sense what they are capable of creating with their own human skills, in order to return to this. Through the creative process - and not through the actual production result - a greater emotional satisfaction is to be achieved. In the process, all rules for (re)working, learning and experimenting on the product are dropped. REVIVE enlivens and honors the immaterial flow that occurs during the creative process instead of focusing only on the final object. In this way, REVIVE sets itself the task of tracing our own creativity. Once a household practice, the act of repairing is now seen as creative method. The REVIVE trend subsequently focuses on process, modern mending and experimentation.
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