2025 Predictions: What Will Be the Trends in Fashion, Design, and A.I.

You don't need a crystal ball to look to 2025 and isolate predictions and projections about what will really happen in the work, fashion, design and communication segments. Just look at the data and the analysis of that data and then try to connect the dots. In short, try to understand how we will live our very intense lives every day. Tom Standage, deputy editor of The Economist, sees Artificial Intelligence as the biggest gamble in corporate history by 2025. More than $1 trillion is being spent on data centers for AI even though companies don't yet know how to really use it and usage rates are low. We tried to capture the salient data that could define our tomorrow.

Li Edelkoort , a well-known Dutch trend forecaster and founder of the famous Trend Union platform, has indicated the Interior Child as one of the future trends that will emerge most clearly from our behaviors. Edelkoort means the ability to find within ourselves and therefore through creativity, the motivations to be in the world once AI and robots are increasingly invasively - hopefully in a good way - charged with carrying out our most exhausting and repetitive work. But once the most difficult tasks have been completed, what will be left for us? " I really believe in the return of the Arts and Crafts movement, as described by William Morris. And I think that could also be our future." We will return to making, decorating and shaping, guided by instinct and the creative impulse with an eye to the southern hemisphere.

To draw up the 2025 predictions, our eyes turned to forecast-trend research agencies such as WSGN and social platforms such as Pinterest and Snapchat, true thermometers of the mood and sentiment of Gen Z and Millennials, the target audience of the entire industry. And to establish what the 2025 fashion trends will be , the colors applied in the lifestyle segment, the design up to the habits of gustatory enjoyment with food & beverage, ChatGPT also got involved, a very prompt and fast advisor in providing answers and summary scenarios generated by his vast and controversial knowledge.

In addition to Mocha Mousse , Pantone's colour of 2025 , the general palette for next year is made up of many other shades and new chromatic vibrations. So from the warm and enveloping tones of browns and intense hazelnuts we dive into the new dark blue Future Dusk, according to Coloro WGSN a shade suited to facing our era of transition. A blue that also becomes purple. Moody and intriguing, at the same time firm and constant, it offers a sense of mystery and escape, but also a reassuring stability. Defined as a transformative color, it conveys emotional experiences, both digital and real.

Novacolor, the San Marco Group brand dedicated to decorative art, presents Eclipsia, the Colour of the Year 2025, together with four chromatic worlds: Penumbra, Zenith, Aura and Supernova. With the research and study of colour by designer and architect Gian Paolo Venier of OTTO Studio by Paola Navone , the expertise of the Novacolor marketing team and the creative guidance of the Freedot agency, the Colour Trends 2025 respond to the various contemporary private and public needs. Eclipsia is a soft and vibrant orange that defies convention, becomes essential to revolutionize any colour palette.

Finally, 2025 also features the Colour of the Year 2025 proposal from Sigma Coatings , a brand of PPG Architectural Coatings Italy, which launches Amethyst Shadow PPG1046-7, a shade capable of changing according to light conditions, therefore a captivating shade that reveals a perfect balance between the calming qualities of blue and the energetic warmth of red . The 4 2025 colour palettes conceived with the intent of translating into inspirations and suggestions applicable to the world of design are called Extra Celestial, Bio-Fuse, Art-I-ficial and Earth & Archive.

The range of 2025 fashion trends intercepted by ChatGPT indicates Soft Futurism and Bio-Tech as the first aesthetics, universes with soft and organic shapes with the help of innovative materials, such as bioplastics and opaque metals, declined however in pastel colors. It also foresees a return to the 80s and 90s, reinterpreted with modern technologies useful for defining the Neo-Nostalgia and Retrofuturism aesthetics where it is the vision of the future of the past years that guides its next evolution. Nature Punk is instead the aesthetic that mixes elements of punk and grunge with natural beauty, inspired by wild and unpredictable landscapes, often with a rebellious vision of the environment. Thus elements of industrial design blend with images of uncontaminated nature.

If Pinterest Predicts 2025, the annual report - now in its eleventh edition, indicates the arrival of the Boho Biker among Gen Z and Baby Boomers with leather outfits mixed with flowing skirts and draped shirts, the return of Castle-core and the Middle Ages, the triumph of eighteenth-century rococo (+ 5,465%) in an opulent and ultra-feminine aesthetic of corsets and “luxury” make-up - must thank the meticulous work of Chappell Roan. After the Barbie phenomenon, Pinterest says it will be the turn of miniaturization with the return of mini objects and the cute Polly Pocket aesthetic. The cult of the Avatar will also be strengthened, which will have more and more relevance in digital and virtual self-representation with great applause from fashion brands present with virtual skins of their best pieces. In this regard, the Snapchat community , which has over 850 million active monthly users in 2024, has worked on defining its own style with try-on AR lenses, Bitmoji Fashion and a lot of beauty. The most shared sponsored entities globally in luxury retail by product category are Dior and Stone Island for apparel, Chopard for jewellery and Cartier for watches.

According to ChatGPT , in 2025 interior design and the world of interior design will follow an evolution influenced by sustainability, well-being, and the hybridization of high-tech styles. Interior design in 2025 will be adaptable , sustainable , and intelligent with more functional, inclusive, and aesthetically pleasing spaces. The search for a balance between comfort, design, and social responsibility will guide our furnishing choices, thus creating environments that are increasingly in tune with our way of living and working. The creation of a curious negative space, or rooms designed to be calm, quiet and free of distractions. The aim is to find a balance between functionality and tranquility, to promote relaxation and concentration, meditation, fitness and sleep.

Thus, wood, stone, bamboo and recycled glass are once again the protagonists of the home. Materials such as linoleum and cork will be increasingly popular along with the revitalization of vintage, the circular economy and creative recycling. In 2025, the predictions see zero-waste design with organic finishes.

To the zen essence of a newfound peace, among the 2025 trends of WGSN, the well-known forecasting company with offices in London , New York , Hong Kong and Sao Paulo, indicate the pop, maximalist trend of Fake Food, or the reproduction in every scale of products dedicated to interiors and complements with an edible theme. The culture of gluttony has a beneficial and anti-stress power in managing to raise a smile. And we probably need it a lot. The more realistic the effect and the more surreal the effect of trompe-l'oeil candles, tableware, stationery and toys, but also furniture and decorations for rooms, the better the result will be.

While ChatGPT is pushing its own food forecast based on the growing use of biotechnology to improve the quality and sustainability of food, such as lab-grown meat , insect proteins, and the introduction of food fingerprinting to track its origins and even 3D food printing , WGSN focuses on the type of future pantry we will have: multi-ethnic, multi-storey, stimulating and inclusive. The trend is called The Global Pantry and it foresees cabinets and shelves overflowing with products from the four corners of the Earth. Any suggestions? Mexican salsa macha, Chinese chilli crisp, Japanese yuzu koshu mayo, Indonesian sambal, Mojo Rojo from the Canary Islands, pandan kaya curd and ube halaya. Bon Appétit.