Emmanuelle Linard

Emmanuelle Linard joined Li Edelkoort in Paris in July 1989 to work in the Trend Union production department. She came to New York in 1999 to set up the Edelkoort offices at The Firehouse in the East Village. Now a partner and Executive Director, Linard has distilled her mentor’s style of observing the world around her, studying links between fashion, art, design and consumer culture to discern the future and share her traveling observations. Growing as a creative New York community, Edlekoort, Inc. provides design and lifestyle forecasts to some of the world’s leading brands and hosts seminars on creative topics and educational workshops on trend forecasting.