The future of fashion is collaboration To truly innovate the fashion industry, we need to look at crossovers with other industries to completely rethink the way we produce and wear fashion. What happens when a fashion designer starts collaborating with a research partner? Aniela will share insights and her vision on the future of fashion. Speaker: Aniela Hoitink

1. THE FUTURE OF FASHION
IS COLLABORATION
Aniela Hoitink | NEFFA
NEXT STOP

2. FASHION
vs
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

3. Fashion industry

4. flexible OLED research | uHasselt & Elasta

5. Peplum jacket with changeable elastics and lighting

6. Solar energy in yarn research | Justus-Liebig Universität Giessen

7. Solar Fiber hat @ Nemo Science Center

8. Mycelium material research | Universiteit Utrecht

9. MycoTEX @ Dutch Sustainable Fashion Week

10. Benefits:
- Create new ideas and applications
- Better connected to the needs of the industry, so
more change to get it out there
- More funding for research as it gains more visibility
and interest
Needs:
- open mind and mutual understanding
- learning each others language

11. WORTH project | proposal of uHasselt, Elasta & NEFFA

12. Peplum OLED jacket | choice of OLEDs & elastics

13. Peplum OLED jacket | first sketches & draping

14. Peplum OLED jacket | working with the samples

15. Peplum OLED jacket | final design with changeable elastics

16. Our mycelium = filaments of this mushroom (hyphae)

17. MycoTEX | growing mycelium

18. MycoTEX | first Petri dish with mycelium

19. MycoTEX - batch testing on pieces of knitwear and fabric

20. MycoTEX | soft-bodied species grow modular

21. MycoTEX | upscaling

22. MycoTEX dress | rethink the future of fashion

23. MycoTEX production cycle
SHORTER SUPPLY CHAIN
LESS WATER AND TRANSPORT
NO EXPENSIVE FARMLAND, SEASONAL INFLUENCES OR CHEMICALS
ENTIRE NEW WAY OF DESIGNING GARMENTS

24. Textile waste Natural waste

25. Why do we still make clothes
that last for 40 years
if we only
wear them 1 or 2 years?

26. MycoTEX with conductive yarns & LEDs

27. Biodegradable cape with electronics | DDW @Manifestations

28. “To truly innovate the fashion industry, we need to look at
crossovers with other industries to completely rethink the
way we produce and wear fashion.”
Aniela Hoitink | NEFFA
aniela@neffa.nl
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