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Fashion District announces shortlist for Innovation Challenge Prize

Fashion District at London College of Fashion, UAL, a hub for fashion innovation in East London, connecting fashion, technology, business and education, has announced 11 innovative start-ups on the shortlist for its Innovation Challenge Prize: Manufacturing Futures accolade. The annual award is aimed at challenging pressing industry issues and...

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Potato-to-textile manufacturer wins Fashion District’s innovation challenge

Fibe, a start-up developing textile fibre from potato harvest waste, has been selected as the winner of Fashion District’s 2024 Manufacturing Futures Innovation Challenge. With the accolade, Fibe will receive 15,000 pounds to support their innovation and grow their business as it looks to scale its affordable fibres to that of the same level as...

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Fashion District and The Trampery launch new fashion accelerator

Fashion innovation hub Fashion District has teamed up with London-based social enterprise The Trampery and its learning business Evo Learning to launch a five-month innovation programme “to empower the next generation of sustainable fashion brands and fashion technology businesses”. The ‘Evo Fashion’ accelerator will provide high-impact...

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Weffan x Liquid Editions wins Design Futures 2022

The Fashion District and Pangaia named Graysha Audren, founder of 3D woven textile company Weffan, as the winner of its Design Futures Innovation Prize 2022 for the Weffan x Liquid Editions collaboration. This year's Design Futures challenged sustainably-driven designers and businesses to present new circular design solutions by developing ways...

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Fashion District names shortlist for Design Futures 2022

The Fashion District has named nine emerging designers on the shortlist for its Design Futures 2022 - Innovation Challenge Prize to find a new sustainable solution that will develop design for circularity and revolutionise the fashion industry. The nine sustainably driven fashion designers are using “innovative approaches to circularity” to...

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Biophilica wins IET and Fashion District 'Manufacturing Futures' prize

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and Fashion District have named Biophilica as the winner of the 2021 Manufacturing Futures prize for its innovative ‘Treekind,’ an entirely plant-based, compostable, leather alternative for the fashion industry. The Manufacturing Futures prize, launched by the IET in partnership with the...

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Fashion District shortlists ten tech start-ups for Manufacturing Futures 2021

The Fashion District, in collaboration with The Fashion Innovation Agency from London College of Fashion, UAL, has announced ten start-ups that “could change the face of fashion manufacturing” as part of its innovation challenge prize. The Manufacturing Futures 2021 calls upon fashion and tech companies to introduce new tech solutions for the...

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Lone Design Club wins Retail Futures 2020

The Fashion District, in collaboration with the Fashion Innovation Agency at London College of Fashion, UAL, has named retail disrupter Lone Design Club as the overall winner of the second edition of its Retail Futures competition. The innovation challenge prize sponsored by Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield called upon fashion and tech companies to...

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London’s Fashion District announces the fourteen tech start-ups shortlisted for Retail Futures 2020

Retail Futures 2020: Fashion District Innovation Challenge Prize sponsored by Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, aims to develop the retail-tech innovations to transform retail as we know it Using new technologies including, AI, 3D, AR, the start-ups are bringing new customer experiences, sustainability and efficiency to the retail supply chain to help...