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Kane Top Group

0013618, Bright White

Kane Top Group

0014516, Camel Melange

Verhees Textiles

01795.007 Cotton jersey interlock GOTS, sage

Höffe Textil

02622-BP306, S 005

Höffe Textil

02622-BP306, S 020

Verhees Textiles

03880.062 Cotton knitted waffle GOTS, natural

Verhees Textiles

06283.004 Poplin GOTS farm animals, sage

Verhees Textiles

07155.000 Jersey GOTS Digital Dogs, off-white

Alarga Textile

101225/1 Wool Silk Jersey, printed/coloured

Alarga Textile

101225/11 Wool Silk Child t-Shirt, dill

101225/11 Wool Silk Pointelle Rib 2x2, brown

Alarga Textile

101225/11 Wool Silk Pointelle Rib 2×2, brown

Alarga Textile

101225/11 Wool Silk Rib 2×2, dill

News & Blog

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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3 days to go. European fashion supply is changing fast: capacity pressures, new EU rules, rising costs, AI moving in. So where do you start? On Wednesday we’re bringing together brands, manufacturers, sourcing leaders and tech experts for 90 minutes on what is actually shifting and what to do next. Register now for free >> link in bio.

October 25, 2026

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Good energy at the Bluezone. The conversations that matter happen in person. And they usually look something like this. Next edition: January 20 to 22, 2027 in Munich. Registration open — link in bio.

October 25, 2026

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Meet the people shaping what comes next. Two more speakers for the MFS Webinar on October 28. Elsa Parente, Co-CEO & CTO at @positivematerials : a chemistry degree and 25+ years in textile R&D. Co-founded RDD Textiles, led innovation at Tintex Textiles, advises networks including The Microfibre Consortium. Her focus: purposeful innovation built for real-world performance. Jamie Beck, SVP Sustainability & Compliance at Fabacus : one of the people actively shaping how Digital Product Passports work in practice. Represents Fabacus in the EU-funded CIRPASS-2 initiative. His focus: compliance that creates commercial value, not just paperwork. Register now for free — link in bio.

October 25, 2026

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Presence isn’t built on basics. Ceremonial is one of five AW27 trend directions from Munich Fabric Start — and it goes deep. Rich burgundy, earthy browns, warm gold. Lace against glossy finishes. Soft pile against structured weight. The kind of material story that is less about clothing and more about atmosphere. Seven fabric worlds within one direction: Earthly Scents, Mystique, Eternal Spiral, Urban Grounded, Silent Omen, Blood Moon, Wax Figures. Modern ritual. Dramatic expression. All of it developed by our international exhibitors. Full trend report: link in bio.

October 24, 2026

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Fabrics on the table. Decisions in the making. This is what sourcing looks like up close. Munich Fabric Start is where collections are built. Next edition: January 20 to 22, 2027 in Munich. Registration open, link in bio.

October 24, 2026

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Textile waste goes in. Something remarkable comes out. Mimbiosis takes post-industrial fabric scraps and binds them with mycelium (the root network of fungi) into composite panels for building interiors. Carbon negative, fully biodegradable and made from material the industry would otherwise throw away. Last season they exhibited with us at Munich Fabric Start and their panels were part of our Trend Forum. This is exactly the kind of innovation the industry needs right now.

October 24, 2026

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Hemp, nettle, linen. Grown in Germany. @feldefibres produces elementary textile fibres from bast plants, the finest grade of fibre processing. Soft hand feel, clean appearance, no pesticides. GOTS certified across all three fibres. A real alternative to cotton and synthetics. Seen at Munich Fabric Start.

October 24, 2026

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Meet the people shaping what comes next. Two more speakers for the MFS Webinar on October 28. Gunish Jain, Founder & CEO at @bluekaktus_official : started in large-scale manufacturing in India, supplying H&M and C&A. Built BlueKaktus from that experience — now used by 10,000+ vendors and 18 of India’s largest brands across 10+ countries. Charles Allard Jr, Co-Founder & CEO at @delvify_ai : former Chair of a $30B commodity hedge fund subsidiary, published author on financial derivatives, lecturer in Applied Statistical Learning. Now applying that rigour to fashion supply chain intelligence. Register now for free — link in bio.

October 23, 2026

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