Future Fashion Factory

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.

Our 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

With a growing workforce approaching one million people, the UK’s fashion design industry contributes £32bn to the economy. As one of the most influential and creative hubs in the world, the UK fashion industry is an international leader in the design and manufacture of high value branded products, with retailers promoting British provenance, heritage and luxury.

未来时装工厂研究和开发先进的数字和纺织技术，以改变行业在奢侈品时装设计过程中的敏捷性，以及实现循环经济的能力。

我们的创新设计和先进制造将提高奢侈品时装设计师产品竞争力和生产力：
缩短产品开发周期和交付周期，提高敏捷性。
在合适的时机为合适的客户设计合适的产品，减少浪费。
从线性经济转向循环经济，降低浪费成本，创造新的商业模式。
培养基于STEAM理念的时装设计师，合理利用新的纺织品和数字技术实现创意设计的过程

未来时装工厂是一个以行业为主导的合作研究组织，将利兹城市地区的纺织品设计和制造中心与伦敦的创意设计和零售中心联系起来。它汇集了来自十个核心行业合作伙伴的专业知识，还有众多的合作伙伴。在英国形成了一个涵盖设计，制造和零售的广泛合作网络。该计划涉及与利兹大学，哈德斯菲尔德大学和皇家艺术学院以及约克郡纺织卓越中心的合作。