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Pulpatronics wins Manufacturing Futures 2026

Fashion District at London College of Fashion, UAL, a hub for fashion innovation in East London, connecting fashion, technology, business and education, has named London-based Pulpatronics, which is developing fully recyclable, metal-free RFID tags, as the winner of its Manufacturing Futures Innovation Challenge Prize 2026. The annual award...

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Potato-to-textile manufacturer wins Fashion District’s innovation challenge

Fibe, a start-up developing textile fibre from potato harvest waste, has been selected as the winner of Fashion District’s 2024 Manufacturing Futures Innovation Challenge. With the accolade, Fibe will receive 15,000 pounds to support their innovation and grow their business as it looks to scale its affordable fibres to that of the same level as...

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Weffan x Liquid Editions wins Design Futures 2022

The Fashion District and Pangaia named Graysha Audren, founder of 3D woven textile company Weffan, as the winner of its Design Futures Innovation Prize 2022 for the Weffan x Liquid Editions collaboration. This year's Design Futures challenged sustainably-driven designers and businesses to present new circular design solutions by developing ways...

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Fashion District names shortlist for Design Futures 2022

The Fashion District has named nine emerging designers on the shortlist for its Design Futures 2022 - Innovation Challenge Prize to find a new sustainable solution that will develop design for circularity and revolutionise the fashion industry. The nine sustainably driven fashion designers are using “innovative approaches to circularity” to...

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Biophilica wins IET and Fashion District 'Manufacturing Futures' prize

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and Fashion District have named Biophilica as the winner of the 2021 Manufacturing Futures prize for its innovative ‘Treekind,’ an entirely plant-based, compostable, leather alternative for the fashion industry. The Manufacturing Futures prize, launched by the IET in partnership with the...

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Lone Design Club wins Retail Futures 2020

The Fashion District, in collaboration with the Fashion Innovation Agency at London College of Fashion, UAL, has named retail disrupter Lone Design Club as the overall winner of the second edition of its Retail Futures competition. The innovation challenge prize sponsored by Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield called upon fashion and tech companies to...

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London’s Fashion District announces the fourteen tech start-ups shortlisted for Retail Futures 2020

Retail Futures 2020: Fashion District Innovation Challenge Prize sponsored by Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, aims to develop the retail-tech innovations to transform retail as we know it Using new technologies including, AI, 3D, AR, the start-ups are bringing new customer experiences, sustainability and efficiency to the retail supply chain to help...

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Pacific Eurotex Corp. owners admit money laundering in Los Angeles Fashion District

Los Angeles - Starting off the year on a bad note, it seems that Pacific Eurotex Corp. has found itself in some legal trouble. Owners of the textile company just plead guilty to federal money laundering and tax charges in a recent Los Angeles Garment District case. The chief executive, and his brother leading as chief financial officer, plead...

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Kent Smith steps down from Fashion District BID

Los Angeles - It looks like the Fashion District Business Improvement District will be needing a new leader. Kent Smith, who served as executive director for 17 years, will be stepping down this year to retire. Smith will officially step down from his role this summer. As executive director, he helped drastically improve the company’s goals and...