• Northern Clothing and Textile Network Event

    Northern Design Centre Hawks Road, Gateshead, United Kingdom

    Hear Prof Stephen Russell speak at the Northern Clothing and Textile Network event being held at the Northern Design Centre in Gateshead. Other speakers include designer Nigel Cabourn and Hayley Smith (Craft Yourself Silly), and Simon Bourne (The Hand-Dyed Show Company).

  • Future Fashion Factory – Innovation Funding, Call 1

    Future Fashion Factory is a 5 year long, £5.4m project funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) under the UK government’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) initiative. This is an industry-led project focused on applying, co-developing and implementing new textile and industrial digital technologies (IDTs) in collaboration with supply chain manufacturers and other...

  • How to use Artificial Intelligence in Textile and Fashion Businesses to Increase Competitiveness

    Textile Centre of Excellence 5 Red Doles Lane, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

    UK businesses using data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) are realising significant benefits in terms of better decision-making and a deeper understanding of customer wants and needs, cost reduction, increasing efficiency, revenue growth, maximising sell-through as well as reduced lead times. But many businesses still question how they might practically use AI in their own...

    Free
  • Retailer Engagement Event

    Clothworkers Hall Dunster Court, Mincing Lane, London, United Kingdom

    The Future Fashion Factory is a new industry-led, collaborative R&D programme linking UK-based design, manufacturing and retail. The Programme is developing advanced digital and textile technologies aimed at transforming the UK industry’s agility, and ability to shift to circular economies. Its key mission is to facilitate designing the right product for the right customer at...

    Free
  • The True Cost of Fashion

    University of Huddersfield Queensgate, Huddersfield, United Kingdom

    A seminar discussing the innate disadvantages of the growing fast fashion industry and what changes could be made to make a more sustainable circular economy.

  • Printed Textile Manufacture in a Digital Age

    University of Huddersfield Queensgate, Huddersfield, United Kingdom

    The SDC North of England Region, in partnership with the University of Huddersfield, invites you to join this free half-day seminar. The event will be chaired by Professor Parik Goswami who will introduce a number of guest speakers who are experts in the field of print. Guest speakers will include: Christine Holdstock, Colour Science Consultant...

    Free
  • Make It British Live!

    Business Design Centre 52 Upper St, The Angel, London, United Kingdom

    The Future Fashion Factory team will exhibit at the Make It British Live! trade show 29-30 May 2019.

  • WOVEN: A Celebration of Textiles

    Across Kirklees

    WOVEN textile festival will celebrate the past, present and future of Kirklees' globally recognised fashion and textile industry.

  • Future Fashion Factory: Working with Microbusinesses

    Leeds City Museum Millennium Square, Leeds, United Kingdom

    A discussion event for microbusinesses in Leeds. Meet the Future Fashion Factory team, talk about the challenges you face and the support you need to grow.