Sustainable Innovations

20 – 22 January 2027

MOC München

About Sustainable Innovations

SUSTAINABLE INNOVATIONS is the platform for exciting young designers creating extraordinary material developments and rethinking the textile world – with these insights, you will always be one step ahead of the market. This is where the materials and processes of tomorrow are presented, with scalable solutions.

These future-ready showcases offer real solutions to problems and the most innovative textile developments. Curated by Simon Angel, the forum has been an integral part of KEYHOUSE since 2016.

Some exhibitors in this area included:

»Textile value creation is currently being radically rethought. Every company is called upon to engage with these impulses and develop individual concepts. One thing is certain: in the future, only those companies will be successful whose fashion inspires and who operate in an economically sound way. Digital processes, decentralised production, smaller batches, shorter lead times, comprehensive transparency and new circular business models – it remains exciting to see which of these developments will be scalable, and when.«

Alexander Vogt, KERN. Consulting

13/Jul/26

What if the most sustainable product were the one that is constantly reinvented?

Sustainability

Modularity is not a new concept. For decades, it has shaped architecture, furniture and industrial design. Applying it to soft textiles, however, opens up an entirely new discussion.

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13/Jul/26

What if the most sustainable product were the one that is constantly reinvented?

Sustainability

Modularity is not a new concept. For decades, it has shaped architecture, furniture and industrial design. Applying it to soft textiles, however, opens up an entirely new discussion.

12/Jul/26

Smart Textile Design

Sustainability

Creativity and curiosity have always been our driving force. Our work evolves through prototypes—never finished, always raising new questions about materials, processes, and possibilities.

11/Jul/26

What If Designers Could Decide Colour Before the Yarn Even Exists?

Sustainability

Both the fashion and textile industry often celebrates creativity. Yet many of the industry’s creative decisions are made long before a designer ever begins designing. Colour being one of them. The thing is, by the time a designer selects yarn, someone else has already determined the available colours, sequences and combinations. Choice exists, but only within boundaries.

10/Jul/26

Leather from the Sea

Sustainability

“Through hands-on experimentation, I explore the potential of new surfaces and alternative forms of leather, aiming to reconnect human life with the natural world as an interconnected fabric.”

09/Jul/26

Why Fashion’s Next Innovation Might Be a Craft We’ve Forgotten

Sustainability

Working with everything from delicate tulle and lace to leather, sequins and other unconventional materials, the studio has transformed flock into a contemporary design language capable of meeting the demands of luxury fashion and Haute Couture.

21/Jan/26

Cartoon – Fashion for courage, joie de vivre and self-realisation

Fabrics

Embark on this fashionable journey and discover the new Cartoon collection at our store. Be inspired, mix and match to your heart's content, and wear optimism—every day, for every occasion.

20/Jan/26

KnitForm+ by Jeanne Mora

Sustainability

“What matters is how the textile responds: how it regulates volume, distributes pressure, and transitions from flat to three-dimensional states. Process transparency is embedded in the methodology itself.”

19/Jan/26

RETRAKT: From Circular Ambition to Operational Reality

Sustainability

“Performance, in this context, is measured by organisational resilience. RETRAKT applies resilience engineering to help employees anticipate, monitor, respond to, and learn from complex and changing requirements.”

18/Jan/26

MATERIA FUTURA: Reclaiming Sensory Desire in Bio-Based Materials

Sustainability

Materia Futura is not proposing a new bio-material category, nor a finished commercial textile. What distinguishes the project is its design-led investigation into the emotional and aesthetic dimensions of bio-based materials, an area often sidelined in sustainability discourse.

17/Jan/26

Threaded Protocols

Keyhouse / Sustainability

Threaded Protocols is not a textile innovation in the commercial sense, nor a digital tool disguised as craft. What makes the work distinct is its material investigation into how computational logic originates in textile practice and what is lost when those logics are abstracted into opaque technological systems.

16/Jan/26

MARIE VILAY: Reading, Carrying, and Reframing Textile Knowledge

Sustainability

Marie Vilay does not present a new fabric or production technique. What distinguishes her work is a method of reading and translating textile knowledge across cultures, systems, and moments of transition.

15/Jan/26

Interview with Simon Angel, Curator of SUSTAINABLE INNOVATIONS

Keyhouse / Sustainability

For me, novelty by itself is never enough, I always search behind the curtains, looking for stories, paradoxes, pain, pleasure and purpose. Technical achievement is important, but it is only a starting point. What I look for is whether a project asks an honest question about how we live, make, and value.

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This one’s for the next generation. The Young Innovators Program gives young German textile and fashion companies access to Munich Fabric Start at reduced rates. Backed by BAFA. New materials, sustainable tech, bold concepts. If that’s you, this is your entry point. Apply now. Link in bio.

October 13, 2026

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Labels that do more than identify. @fec_serilabel develops fashion accessories and labels with techniques ranging from hot printing and screen printing to NFC technology and lenticular 3D. Plus two patented systems: Vacuum Assembly and the F*S Fixing System. All Made in Italy. Seen at Munich Fabric Start.

October 13, 2026

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The fair is three days. The work is all year. Together with @futurefashionassembly , we are launching 365 Days Munich Fabric Start. Webinars, digital tools and real cases between the shows. Because decisions don’t wait for January. They happen every day. @sourcingjournal has the full story. Link in Stories. What does your team need most between seasons?

October 8, 2026

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Save the date! European fashion supply is being reshaped. Manufacturing pressure, new EU regulation, AI, sourcing economics: the industry is being asked to adapt fast. On 28 October, we go live with our next webinar together with @futurefashionassembly and @shapeinnovate . A practical 90-minute conversation for brands, manufacturers and sourcing teams. Free to attend. Link in bio.

October 6, 2026

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Faible for craft. Failure as a feature. Isabelle, founder of Hamburg-based knitwear label @faibleandfailure , treats every mistake as part of the process. And the results speak for themselves. Part of our ongoing interview series with industry insiders at Munich Fabric Start. Full interview now on YouTube.

October 5, 2026

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Quiet Disruption. One more time. Familiar codes, reworked. Checks distorted, heritage deconstructed, soft qualities meeting technical surfaces. A material language built on contrast. This was one of five trend directions at Munich Fabric Start AW27. And it is worth a second look. Over the coming weeks, we are revisiting all five AW27 trend worlds before turning the page to SS28. Because the next season is already taking shape. Munich Fabric Start returns January 20 to 22, 2027.

September 30, 2026

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Here‘s some Behind The Scenes of our recent show in July. We're already planning our next show with an inspiring trend foyer for you to discover. So excited for January!

September 25, 2026

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@projectsrl_divisionetessuti 's collection is built around one clear idea: simplicity as the purest form of luxury. Washable wools, silk, cashmere, cotton and technical nylon: materials that feel as good as they look. Designed to last beyond the season. Clean surfaces, understated tones, timeless character. For womenswear and menswear alike. Seen at Munich Fabric Start.

September 24, 2026

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