Valeryia Lubchonak
My interest is bringing functionality into luxury clothing. Using technology in my designs, I am exploring the possibilities of advanced fabrics (fabrics with embedded electronics) and how they could make people’s life more productive, comfortable and efficient.
In addition, I am willing to investigate all the possibilities of making fashion industry as sustainable as it possible through digital designing and other technologies, there a big potential for change to be made.
Currently, I am exploring programs such as Lectra, Optitex, CLO and Marvelous Design, which I believe, would help me to create own digital fashion show which I believe could become a future of fashion.
To a Future Fashion Factory project I could bring insight from my experience with advance fabrics and digital design.
- Listing ID: 1344
- Contact: Valeryia Lubchonak
- What are your aspirations and plans for the future?: In a nutshell, I am aiming to create a luxury collection with functional technologies. Now, me and my partner Mark Catchpole (from the company Conductive Transfers) are preparing the project, we really believe that we have something interesting to share with people which could become a new desirable product. To make it happen, we are currently looking for sponsorship (we are already partially sponsored by the project called InSCOPE and now we need further budget to get fully started on the project). This summer I am graduating from London College of Fashion where I have studied Fashion Design and Development. During my studying I realised that I am excited about the idea of making a shift in the fashion industry by using technology. I believe that the production could be taking a lot less time than it does at the moment and also the industry could be greener and more sustainable. My main goal is to learn about those topics as much as I can and come up with some idea of how I can make fashion industry better. FFF membership will be very useful for me to get to know all the latest news and updates in fashion and technologies.
- What types of projects are you interested in working on through Future Fashion Factory?: Digital designing, innovative technologies in fashion, e-textiles, zero waste pattern cutting, etc. In summary all the projects that have a technology angle.
