Circular Design Practice

From 3–8 June 2025, we’re taking over East London’s Spitalfields for our third Fashion District Festival, featuring a packed programme of events celebrating sustainable, circular and regenerative fashion.

Fashion District

Join leading designers and experts to explore how circular design is shaping the future of fashion.

Spitalfields Studio

Join us to see how designers and start-ups are channeling their creativity to re-think traditional design systems and innovate the craft of making, as a designer label or larger brand. Through a series of ‘Sofa Stories’ with experts and professionals in their field, we will explore topics such as Circular Design, Social and Ethical Practice and consider how we can produce fabrics more regeneratively. Stay for lunch and also <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/past-and-future-fabrics-panel-tickets-1334114114229" title="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/past-and-future-fabrics-panel-tickets-1334114114229" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Book your slot for the Past and Future Fabrics session here.</a>With the growing awareness of waste in the fashion industry, more designers are adopting circular design principles, integrating sustainable practices into their creative processes. This event brings together key professionals across fashion and textiles to explore the significance of circular design, its challenges and its future role in shaping the industry.Facilitated by Laetitia Forst, circular design specialist from UAL and Shailja Dube from Institute for Positive Fashion at the British Fashion Council, the session will focus on how designers and brands are navigating circular design. Attendees will learn about the importance of designing with longevity, material cyclability and how these approaches contribute to a more sustainable and resilient fashion industry.We will discuss real-world applications of circular design, exploring practical steps for adopting circular design practice within both small-scale and large-scale operations. The event will also feature insights from leading designers, Patrick McDowell and Anna Foster whilst sustainability expert Philly Grogan, and Amy Osgood, designer from Nobody's Child, will showcase actionable frameworks and solutions for scaling circular design principles.Participants will gain valuable insights into how they can apply circular design principles in their own work, as well as how to prepare for the future.At the end of the session we will launch the next Evo Fashion business programme alongside, Evo Learning at The Trampery, opening the call-out for applications for free business support, funded by London &amp; Partners through the Grow Early Stage Business Programme. Fashion businesses can hear how to apply, what the programme offers and what you can expect from the course. Laetitia Forst, University of the Arts London Laetitia Forst is a circular textile design researcher at the University of the Arts London (UAL). She holds a master’s degree in textile design from ENSAD Paris, and a PhD on the subject of design for disassembly from UAL. Her work engages multidisciplinary collaborations, bridging the gap between material technology and design to support a shift to circularity in industry. Shailja Dubé, Institute of Positive Fashion Lead, British Fashion Council Shailja is IPF Lead at the BFC, responsible for the strategy and delivery of the BFC's commitment on climate action. She also leads the Circular Fashion Ecosystem Project; a multi-year endeavor to move the UK to a circular fashion economy by 2030. Prior to the BFC, Shailja was Responsible Retail Lead at Accenture where she focused on the intersection of sustainability and business in the fashion and wider retail sectors. With over 20 years’ professional experience, she has held business strategy, digital transformation management, market growth, and social policy roles. Anna Foster, E.L.V. DENIM Anna Foster is Founder and Creative Director of pioneering upcycling brand E.L.V. DENIM. Prior to founding the brand, Anna had been a fashion editor for twenty years at publications such as Exit and i-D Magazine. She then went on to be Fashion Director at Lula, and Fashion Director-at-Large at Australian style title RUSSH before deciding to focus solely on the brand in 2022.Anna’s practices have been widely recognised by the industry, having been shortlisted for the 2021 and 2022 BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund, and a recipient of the BFC Fashion Trust Fund for 2021 and 2022. In March 2022, she won an INNOVATE UK: Women in Innovation Award, which spotlights a diverse group of trailblazing women who are changing the world through the power of their ideas. Anna’s proposal for creating a viable textile sorting infrastructure was recognised as one that could transform the UK’s textile waste problem into an ‘upcycled textile economy’. Philly Grogan, Nobody's Child Philly heads up Sustainability at Nobody's Child, overseeing the London-based label's delivery on topics including circularity, supply chain, and preferred materials. Originally from a design background, a longstanding curiosity of the impact of materials directs her work and she finds great enjoyment developing solutions mitigate the industry's environmental and social impact through innovative, alternative, and regenerative processes. She has spoken about fashion sustainability at UK and EU parliament and has been featured in publications including Vogue, the BBC, the Guardian, and many others. Philly holds MA and MDes degrees for fashion sustainability and spent over a year researching in South Asia, visiting a range of producers, from tiny, rural natural dyers and hand weavers to huge industrial manufacturers making garments for global fashion brands. Patrick McDowell Patrick McDowell studied at Central Saint Martins and then went on to work at Burberry before launching their eponymous label at London Fashion Week in 2018, driven by a vision of doing business differently—celebrating creativity, sustainable craftsmanship, and circular design practices. Since then, McDowell has pioneered their own made to order business, designed and made in London from kinder materials. Offering redesign and repair services on all of their pieces McDowell aims to refocus the industry through a circular lens.McDowell believes in the power of education and the importance of passing knowledge, mentoring students as a Global Ambassador for Graduate Fashion Week and establishing scholarships and internships for students at Central Saint Martins.Recognised for their commitment to helping reshape the future of the fashion industry, McDowell was named to the 2025 Forbes Europe 30 Under 30 list. They have spoken about their work in sustainable fashion at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, both in 2022 and 2024, advocating for a reimagined, environmentally responsible future“Sustainability is at the core of everything Patrick does, striving to reinvent luxury through a sustainable mindset.” — Anna Wintour, Vogue.

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