• How to Get Started in Fashion with No Money

    University of Leeds: School of Music 12 Cavendish Rd, Leeds, United Kingdom

    Join Russell Hammond for this talk focusing on the practical steps you should take when you want to start designing your own fashion line.

  • Fashion in the UK: Challenges and Opportunities

    University of Leeds: School of Design Clothworkers Central Building, Leeds, United Kingdom

    Join Adam Mansell, chief executive of the UK Fashion and Textile Association (UKFT), for this talk on the growth, opportunities and challenges for today’s fashion and textile industry.

  • Fashion Fiesta Leeds

    Crowne Plaza Leeds Wellington Street, Leeds

    Budding fashion designers will once again return to battle it out in front of a panel of carefully selected judges, including Future Fashion Factory Co-Director Suzy Shepherd.

  • New Heritage: Historic Textiles and Today’s Designers

    University of Leeds: Treasures of the Brotherton Gallery Parkinson Building, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds

    Hear how AW Hainsworth used historic jacquard punch card designs to inspire a 'New Heritage' cloth, explore the University of Leeds' stunning International Textile Collection and find out how you can use these archives to inspire your own work.

  • Robots vs Runways: A Conversation with Mark Harrop

    University of Leeds: Parkinson Building Woodhouse Lane, Leeds

    Mark Harrop will explore major industry shifts such as sustainability, customisation and connected manufacturing, as well as the tools and skills that fashion designers will need to grow. Share your ideas and join in the conversation about the future of fashion.

  • Colour, Light and Health: Lecture

    University of Huddersfield: Barbara Hepworth Building Queensgate, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

    Professor Steven Westland (Future Fashion Factory) will give a talk on the non-visual effects of colour and light, especially on human health and wellbeing.