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The Sustainable Angle at The Lab E20 Showroom

The Fashion Revolution Open Studio Showroom introduced the research & development work of eight businesses – an opportunity for press and industry experts to meet the SME entrepreneurs to present their project, talk through the R&D process, and the outcome so far including prototypes, previews and product. The showroom was also open to the public.

The Sustainable Angle’s Future Fabric Expo was a target showcasing partner for many of the SMEs. It has become the largest dedicated showcase of innovative and sustainable material solutions for the fashion industry, with over 5000 materials exhibited to professionals around the world every year. The dates for the Future Fabrics Expo 2023 were outside of the showcasing period so Fashion Revolution Open Studio organised a mini showroom event in partnership with The Sustainable Angle to show the work of a group of SMEs to focus on material innovation and circular systems. The partnership also included xyz.exchange which engaged with the SMEs exhibiting at the Lab to develop digital i-d tags for their products as a pilot project for their own research and development.

From grape leather handbags to community approaches to making and working together; tech solutions connecting designers with clients (and the unwanted clothes in their wardrobes); smart ways of interacting with textile dyes that don’t pollute, to rethinking the materials and the lifecycle of our clothes, these businesses showed how they embed circular solutions into their work.

During Fashion Revolution Week 2023 this was a two-day event with an opportunity to be the first to meet the entrepreneurs behind these innovative projects and discover their work:

Planet of the Grapes

One Essentials

Saska London

Atlas of Sustainable Colours

Evamoso

Studio Sarmite

Patchwork Family

Loom London

Patchwork Family member Kenza Iatrides shows her work to an attendee at the Fashion Revolution Open Studio showroom