Future Fashion Factory

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Future Fashion Factory researches and develops advanced digital and textile technologies to transform the industry’s agility in the luxury fashion design process, and ability to shift to circular economies.

Future Fashion Factory's innovative design and manufacturing advances will address the need for increased competitiveness and productivity in luxury fashion designer products by:

• Shortening product development cycles and lead times to increase agility.
• Designing the right product, for the right customer at the right time, reducing waste.
• Shifting from linear to circular economies, reducing waste costs and creating new business models.
• Developing STEAM-based fashion designers capable of exploiting new textile and digital technologies as part of the creative design process.

Future Fashion Factory is an industry-led collaborative research programme linking the textile design and manufacturing centres within the Leeds City Region with the creative design and retail centre of London. It brings together expertise from ten core industry partners, with many more forming a wider network spanning design, manufacturing and retail in the UK. The Programme involves collaboration with the Universities of Leeds, Huddersfield and the Royal College of Art, as well as the Textile Centre of Excellence in Yorkshire.

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University of Leeds
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Technical Textiles Research Centre

The Technical Textiles Research Centre at the University of Huddersfield aims to re-establish the town and region as a world leader in textiles by harnessing the newest technology and manufacturing te… read more about Technical Textiles Research Centre

Huddersfield

Leeds Institute of Textiles and Colour

The Leeds Institute of Textiles and Colour (LITAC) is a world leading research institute bringing together multi-disciplinary academic expertise in design, technology, science and engineering. LITAC w… read more about Leeds Institute of Textiles and Colour

Leeds