Researchers, businesses and other organisations are invited to apply for funding to run targeted research projects that will provide new insights, evidence and data to help inform the current and future baseline position of sustainable practice in the UK’s Fashion and Textile industry.
Programme News
The Interactive Futures Sustainable Fashion Challenge from Future Fashion Factory – in association with the Applied Games Lab (an InGame spinout application)– is an ambitious competition to harness the potential of game design and game technologies to innovate novel solutions to a global societal challenge: empowering fashion consumers to encourage the fashion and textile industries to develop more robust sustainability practices and credentials.
This week, the Princess of Wales visited textiles manufacturers in Leeds and Lancaster, where she meet FFF Director to discuss how vital the textiles sector is to the UK economy.
Taking place at Nexus Leeds on 30th June, the Future Fashion Factory Showcase is a celebration of the outcomes of the programme, bringing together the industrial partners who have collaborated throughout five years of R&D innovation.
We’re thrilled to share that Future Fashion Factory Core Partners and Chairs, the UKFT is leading a £4 million project to develop and pilot a pioneering fully-integrated, automated sorting and pre-processing plant for waste textiles (ATSP), which could eventually divert thousands of tonnes from landfill each year.
Future Fashion Factory Community Member Hylo is leading the way in accelerating environmental change in the athletic footwear market. Their mission is clear, to be a movement of Athletes for Planet, using materials science to make performance products in a better way. Their products are built to perform but with […]
Ahead of Future Fashion Factory’s Virtual Showcase (15 June), we are very pleased to share the full schedule. In addition to a full day of fantastic speakers and panels, the Virtual Showcase will feature videos from our community of researchers and industry partners highlighting the innovation taking place […]
In a project supported by Future Fashion Factory, Mykko is moving toward producing its mycelium-based alternative to leather on an industrial scale.
Matty Bovan, Phoebe English, Patrick McDowell and Joshua Kane are among the speakers at this year’s Virtual Showcase on Wednesday 15 June.
With the addition of The Stitch Society, Yorkshire designer and manufacturer of artisan workwear, the Future Fashion Factory community has surpassed 500 members.