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Browsing Material Futures

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Fashion

Fashion Month Autumn/Winter 2026: Five Personas Shaping Fashion Futures

Drawing on signals from Fashion Month autumn/winter 2026, these five fashion personas map the shifting decision logic, belief systems and expectations shaping contemporary fashion consumers and beyond.

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Design

How Tipping Point East is redefining circular construction in London

A new hub in east London aims to rethink how cities build by embedding material re-use directly into the construction supply chain.

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Design

Material Futures in a Post-plastic World

The Future Laboratory sits down with Jessie French, artist and founder of design studio Other Matter, to discuss the tangible application of algae-based bioplastics and using retail as a real-world testing ground for material change.

Pitch Studios and Bérénice Golmann have conceptualised Ganni's Fabrics of the Future initiative
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Sustainability

Biofabricated Futures

A revolutionary sustainability breakthrough, biofabrication is the engineering of biological products. This report explores its market evolution and future potential in transforming materials to drive commercial success.

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Design

World's largest construction project in wood to begin in Stockholm by 2025

Sustainable urban development firm Atrium Ljungberg has announced Stockholm Wood City as its latest conscious venture.

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Colliding Technologies

Ground-breaking material could block mosquito bites

Auburn University researchers have unveiled a fabric prototype that could keep wearers safe from mosquito bites.

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Design

Leisurewear’s Circular Future

Jun Kamei, founder and CEO of UK-based Amphico, on how material innovation will accelerate the leisure sector’s move to a sustainable future.

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Fashion

Fluff Stuff creates regenerative textiles from plant fibres

Consciously farmed, plant-based textile innovations could become viable alternatives for the fashion industry, helping to reduce carbon footprint – and regenerate environments.

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Fashion

Nike’s innovative new material slashes carbon footprint

Following five years of research and development, the sportswear brand is unveiling a new fabric innovation that it believes will drastically reduce the carbon footprint of its apparel.