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Call for Proposals – New Landscapes Catalyst R&D Grant Scheme

15 September 2021
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Fashion as Sustainability in Action

10 September 2021

Job Opportunities: 5x SME Project Leads

06 August 2021
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Future Fashion Factory Funding Call Now Open

26 July 2021
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Professor Jane Harris at CogX Festival 2021

06 July 2021

Job Opportunities: Post-Doc Researchers at QMUL

02 July 2021
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Prof Dilys Williams at the Institute of Positive Fashion Forum

20 June 2021
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BFTT SMEs in The New York Times

21 May 2021

Job Opportunity: BFTT ReWeave R&D Project Lead

17 May 2021
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Creative Industries Clusters: The Story So Far 2021

17 May 2021
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Applications Now Open for CreaTech 2021

13 May 2021
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Future Fashion Factory – Funding Call

11 May 2021
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Report on Public Attitudes on Plastics and Fast Fashion

20 April 2021

Measuring the Fashion’s Sustainability Gap

15 April 2021

Business R&D in Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

12 April 2021
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Job Opportunity: IFTT Professorial Chair

08 March 2021

Meet some of the awarded SMEs Founders and CEOs

26 February 2021

SME R&D Support Programme – Funding Call Round 3

22 February 2021
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Towards the ‘Age of Recovery’ by Kate Goldsworthy

21 February 2021
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UKFT Brexit Guidance for the Fashion and Textile Industry

21 February 2021
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AI and Fashion Co-Creation at Beyond 2020

11 February 2021
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Job Opportunity: V&A Research Fellow in Rethinking Material Resources

03 February 2021
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Job Opportunity: V&A Research Fellow in Consumer & Retail Experience

03 February 2021
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Job Opportunity: Associate Director Partnerships and Business Development

27 January 2021
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Job Opportunity: R&D Fellows

27 January 2021
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Mentoring Support for Underrepresented Groups in the Creative Industries

23 January 2021
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Launch of Manufacturing Futures 2021

18 January 2021
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Elvis & Kresse featured in V&A exhibition ‘Bags: Inside Out’

15 January 2021
Four dresses from the AWAYTOMARS project

AWAYTOMARS | Artificial Intelligence and Co-Creation

16 December 2020
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Data-Driven Design at the BEYOND 2020 Conference

01 December 2020
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Knitwear Design and Manufacturing Survey

26 November 2020
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Foundation for Future London Grant Call to Tackle Inequality

23 November 2020
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Research Circles – Book Launch by the Centre for Circular Design

23 October 2020
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Open Call for Sustainable Fashion Accelerator at The Trampery

23 October 2020
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London Fashion Fund – Second Round of Investment Now Open

23 October 2020
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‘Fashion on Climate’ Report

09 October 2020
A pattern cutting machine is shown in John Smedley workshop

Prof James Busfield Elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineers

07 October 2020
A model walks wearing a dress designed by Helen Storey, the installation showcase the data visulaisation

The CEO Agenda 2020: Spotlight Biodiversity

23 September 2020
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Job Opportunity: Creative SME R&D Programme Manager

19 September 2020
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The Fashion District Announces Tech Start-Ups Shortlist

15 September 2020
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Driving Innovation in Difficult Times

14 August 2020
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Job Opportunity: Research Fellow in Bio-inspired Textiles

10 August 2020
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Job Opportunities in Experience Economy Research Project

28 July 2020
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Dilys Williams named Sustainable Fashion Champion 2020

15 July 2020
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What Creative Entrepreneurs Need

06 July 2020
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SME R&D Support Programme – Funding Call Round 2

30 June 2020
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Job Opportunity: R&D Project Lead at UAL/Ananas Anam

24 June 2020
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We Stand with You (BLM)

23 June 2020
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Bruno and Raquel from Ananas Anam on the value of R&D

22 June 2020
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Apply for techstyle (technology + lifestyle) competition

18 June 2020
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Alfredo Orobio on AWAYTOMARS co-creation platform

15 June 2020
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Creative Informatics Virtual Showcase

08 June 2020
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Anna Glover on creating sustainable wallpapers

08 June 2020
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Sam Reich on Tibor’s archival R&D work

01 June 2020
Team members of Blackhorse Lane Ateliers with their tools - a sustainable denim manufacturers

Han Ates on creating a sustainable denim washing lab

27 May 2020
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Kresse Wesling on the importance of academic expertise

21 May 2020
Team members of Blackhorse Lane Ateliers with their tools - a sustainable denim manufacturers

£1.2m R&D Funding Awarded to Fashion SMEs

18 May 2020
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British Fashion Council announces recipients of £1m award

14 May 2020
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What is the new normal in fashion?

12 May 2020
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R&D funding from Future Fashion Factory

07 May 2020
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How is Covid-19 affecting your business?

16 April 2020
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Apply for mentoring support

08 April 2020
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Rapid Response Call (£50k) from Innovate UK

03 April 2020
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Coronavirus: Support for Companies and the Self-Employed

02 April 2020
A man is working in his workshop smoothing the edges of fire hose pipe product which will be used to make bags and belts

Job Opportunity: R&D Project Lead at Queen Mary University London/Elvis & Kresse

30 March 2020
Two male models are wearing light and dark brown jacket which is made using yak fibre

Job Opportunity: R&D Project Lead at UAL/Tengri

17 March 2020
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Job Opportunity: R&D Project Lead at UAL/Segura

17 March 2020
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Insights from Creative Industries Champions

28 February 2020
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SME R&D Projects (Funding Round 1)

27 February 2020
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Innovate UK’s £25m fund opens for R&D in the creative industries

20 February 2020
A collection of cut denim to the size is shown on a desk in a studio

Job Opportunity: R&D Project Lead at UAL/Blackhorse Lane Ateliers

13 February 2020
A model walks wearing a dress designed by Helen Storey, the installation showcase the data visulaisation

PhD Studentship on Fashion Product Visualisation

13 February 2020
A collection of bio designed materials which are dyed using food coloring such as turmeric, walnut and shavings of oak wood

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship on Sustainable Fashion Practices

07 February 2020
AHRC Publication The Story So Far

Creative Industries Clusters. The Story So Far

07 February 2020
Away to Mars which is a fashion co-creation platform showing its collection in close up details. Two female models are wearing blue and burgundy dresses

Job Opportunity: R&D Project Lead at UAL/AWAYTOMARS

31 January 2020
A hane-woven fabric by textile weaving compnay named Tibor. The fabic has red, black and off white yarns woven

Job Opportunity: R&D Project Lead at UAL/Tibor

09 January 2020
A non-woven fabric in detail, manufactured by a compnay named Doppelhaus

Job Opportunity: R&D Project Lead at UAL/Doppelhaus

09 January 2020
A mood board with printed wallpaper and reseach elements by Anna Glover - A textile print designer

Job Opportunity: R&D Project Lead at UAL/Anna Glover

20 December 2019
Cyber style photography, by University of the Arts London student

Apply to the London Fashion Fund

16 December 2019
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The State of Fashion 2020: Navigating Uncertainty

26 November 2019
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Generative Machine Learning for the Consumer Experience

25 November 2019
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BFTT at the British Textile Biennial

18 November 2019
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Apply for a Studio at Poplar Works in London

12 November 2019
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At the Beyond Conference 2019

29 October 2019
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700 Responses… So Far!

25 October 2019
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Our Researchers in the News

16 October 2019
Models walking down the runway in Christopher Raeburn Spring Summer 2018 collection

Meet the Shortlisted Companies

30 September 2019
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Top 100 Women in Fashion Tech

18 September 2019
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Brexit, Technology and the Future of Retail Experience

06 September 2019
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Talks on Sustainability

22 August 2019
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Have a say on the future of fashion!

18 July 2019
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Welcome

30 April 2019