Bio-Material Innovation
In the field of textile and material industry, innovation never comes easy. Being a new-material researcher and fashion designer, my mindset has shifted as I am not just designing products but forming an eco-system around my product, establishing a viable solution to sustainable fashion and …
From conventional Denim to BIO-Denim
Today we use to buying products based on our own knowledge, generating in our mind an abstract idea regarding the process that has been used to achieve a particular effect or finish. But most of the time, according to what we heard, what people tell …
Past and current trends in FashionTech
Past and current trends in FashionTech by Christian Dils, Fraunhofer IZM Electronic textiles (e-textiles) combine the soft, flexible and drapable properties of textiles with electronic functionality and are mainly used in the areas of health, sports and workwear. Nowadays, however, there are only a few …
3D Printing & Crafts – Hybrid traditional and futuristic techniques by Ganit Goldstein
From Japanese heritage to Additive Manufacturing processes We can learn a great deal about the history of the world by learning about manufacturing processes and how it changed over the years. In past times, crafts had a leading role in the industry of any society. …
Cooking New Materials
Material that change the future? Let’s face the fact, with this world of technological advancement, there has and will always be different sorts of innovations that claim they can change the future. However, what comes to me in the first place is creativity, power of …
ARE WE HEADING THE AGRO-FASHION REVOLUTION?
“It is high time to move from basic to value-added products” Syed Kamrul Hassan – Managing Director at CLT Trim Textiles “Bio-based materials are opening an accelerated path thanks to social awareness of the final consumer, now much more sensitive to weather changes, animal abuse, …
Fragments Garments — Modular Clothing # 1
Dear reader, I’m Elisabeth Jayot, a prospective fashion designer and academic consultant based in Paris. The Research & Design studio, I created in 2017, Fragments Garments proposes a new vision on fashion future at the crossroads of digital manufacturing and circular economy. I create innovative …
ALMA – Monitoring Vaginal fluids
Health monitoring is moving home, as consumers seek to gather data allowing them to both optimise their day-to-day wellbeing and potentially prevent future medical problems using the latest technology. At-home testing kits have the potential to boost the diagnosis of medical problems that may be …
Hello! We are Witsense
We are Witsense, a start-up whose members are based between Milan and Dubai. Our aim is the development and production of innovative products and services of high technological value: sensory products and instruments, design elements that can improve life conditions, favouring social inclusion through the …
Digital Vogue – from 2D to 3D
Re-FREAM Re-Thinking of Fashion in Research and Artist collaborating development for Urban Manufacturing I am Julia Koerner, an award-winning designer, and architect, a specialist in 3D printed fashion and continuously inspired by the performance and unique structures of nature. “Fashion is the smallest scale of architecture …