8th Future Fabrics Expo

8th Future Fabrics Expo 24-25th January 2019

Opening Hours:
Thursday & Friday, 9:00 am – 6:00 pm

*TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT THE DOOR

Our Future Fabrics Expo returns for its greatest showcase yet!

The Sustainable Angle’s Future Fabrics Expo is the largest dedicated showcase of sustainable materials for the fashion and textile industry in Europe. The expo features thousands of commercially-available fabrics and materials from suppliers who are offering innovative solutions with a lower environmental footprint.

Our biggest-ever edition will be in a new venue of 22,000 sq ft at Victoria House in London, WC1.

Future Fabrics Expo is a platform to:

• Discover more sustainable textiles and innovations that are responsibly produced, traceable, and with a lower environmental footprint;
• Learn more about the efforts of global textile mills who aim to design, manufacture, and function more sustainably;
• Enable informed sourcing solutions by providing educational background information and research;
• Extend networks in the fashion and textile industries.

At 2019 Future Fabrics Expo, we invite you to:

• Source from thousands of textiles and materials each labelled with sustainability information, environmental certification details, and contact details of suppliers
• Join our popular seminar programme (see list of speakers below)
• Visit dedicated presentation spaces for our sponsors and core-exhibitors
• Explore the Innovation Hub, featuring emerging materials and technologies includes an exclusive collaboration with Fashion for Good's Plug and Play Accelerator Programme
• Learn more about current major trends and environmental issues with our informative educational materials displayed throughout the showcase
• Discover manufacturers and globally recognised certifiers
• Experience our sustainable fashion brands showcase featuring their supply chain stories, from materials sourcing to product realisation
  
  

Seminar Programme:

Our annual Seminar Programme features panel discussions and presentations with key thought leaders, innovators, industry insiders, textiles producers and designers highlighting circular economy systems and transparency in the fashion supply chain. Your ticket will include entry to the seminars, which you can book upon entry to the Future Fabrics Expo on a first come first served basis [limited to 100 seats]

This year’s guests speakers include:

24th January 2019 :

• 9.30am: Dilys Williams, Professor, Centre for Sustainable Fashion at London College of Fashion
• 11.00am: Panel on Waste and Recycling: Besim Özek, Director, Bossa Denim and Hideaki Nakano, Chief clerk, Toyoshima and Fabrizio Tesi, Comistra
• 12.30pm: Orsola de Castro, Co-founder of Fashion Revolution in conversation with Claire Bergkamp, Global Director of Sustainability and Innovation, Stella McCartney
• 2.00pm: Matthew Drinkwater, Head of Fashion Innovation Agency, London College of Fashion, in conversation with Emma Scarf, Ventures Analyst, Fashion for Good- Plug and Play Accelerator
• 3.30pm: Krishna Manda, Senior Manager In Sustainability Integration, Lenzing Group
• 5pm: Edwina Ehrman, Senior Curator at the V&A and Curator of Victoria & Albert Museum's Fashioned From Nature in conversation with Ben Gleisner, Co-founder- Connecting Good (CoGo) and Conscious Consumer Guide on "Is a labelling system going to help shoppers to buy clothes that don’t cost the planet?"

25th January 2019:

• 9.30am: Michael Kininmonth, Lenzing Group, on the microplastics problem in fashion
• 11.00am: Arizona Muse, model and sustainability campaigner, moderating the conversation between Tiziano Guardini, Designer, and Adriana Galjasevic, Denim and Sustainability Expert, G-Star RAW, about the challenges and opportunities they face integrating sustainability
• 12.30pm: Lukas Fuchs, Research Analyst - Make Fashion Circular, Ellen MacArthur Foundation introduction to circular economy and "How to make Fashion circular"
  followed by a conversation with Sergi Masip, Sustainable Development, Hallotex, on circular fashion in practice from the perspective of a supplier
• 2.00pm: Seminar panel on innovation: Paulo Amaury, Nova Kaeru and Matthias Foessel, CEO, Beyond Surface Technologies and Ina Budde, Founder of Circular Fashion
• 3.30pm: Panel discussion about the realities of producing materials in China: Enrico Forin, Advance Denim, Thecla Loh, Shokay and Tommaso Rull, Profits Fund Global
• 4.30pm: Amanda Johnston, Curator, The Sustainable Angle's Future Fabrics Expo, presenting a lecture to students

Clare Press, presenter of the Wardrobe Crisis podcast and Australian VOGUE's Sustainability Editor-at-Large, will be mediating our seminar programme, alongside Arizona Muse, model and sustainability campaigner, and Bel Jacobs, ethical fashion journalist and former fashion editor for Metro.

Location Details:
Victoria House Basement
Bloomsbury Square, 37 Southampton Row
London, WC1B 4DA
Nearest tube station: Holborn station, Central line. Russell Square, Chancery Lane.

*In consideration of the environment, please bring your own reusable water bottle*

Please contact us if you require further information at info@thesustainableangle.org

If you can't make it to the 8th Future Fabrics Expo, don't worry -- you can book a Future Fabrics Expo tailored workshop by emailing info@thesustainableangle.org

Find out more about the last #FutureFabricsExpo held in January 2018, and see photos and videos here.

Get a sneak preview of our sustainable materials and resources here.

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