THE FUTURE OF FASHION IS COLLABORATION Aniela Hoitink | NEFFA

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FASHION

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Fashion industry

flexible OLED research | uHasselt & Elasta

Peplum jacket with changeable elastics and lighting

Solar energy in yarn research | Justus-Liebig Universität Giessen

Solar Fiber hat @ Nemo Science Center

Mycelium material research | Universiteit Utrecht

MycoTEX @ Dutch Sustainable Fashion Week

Benefits: - Create new ideas and applications - Better connected to the needs of the industry, so

more change to get it out there - More funding for research as it gains more visibility

and interest

Needs: - open mind and mutual understanding - learning each others language

WORTH project | proposal of uHasselt, Elasta & NEFFA

Peplum OLED jacket | choice of OLEDs & elastics

Peplum OLED jacket | first sketches & draping

Peplum OLED jacket | working with the samples

Peplum OLED jacket | final design with changeable elastics

Our mycelium = filaments of this mushroom (hyphae)

MycoTEX | growing mycelium

MycoTEX | first Petri dish with mycelium

MycoTEX - batch testing on pieces of knitwear and fabric

MycoTEX | soft-bodied species grow modular

MycoTEX | upscaling

MycoTEX dress | rethink the future of fashion

MycoTEX production cycle

SHORTER SUPPLY CHAIN

LESS WATER AND TRANSPORT

NO EXPENSIVE FARMLAND, SEASONAL INFLUENCES OR CHEMICALS

ENTIRE NEW WAY OF DESIGNING GARMENTS

Textile waste Natural waste

Why do we still make clothes that last for 40 years

if we only wear them 1 or 2 years?

MycoTEX with conductive yarns & LEDs

Biodegradable cape with electronics | DDW @Manifestations

“To truly innovate the fashion industry, we need to look at crossovers with other industries to completely rethink the way we produce and wear fashion.”

Aniela Hoitink | NEFFA aniela@neffa.nl website: www.neffa.nl twitter: @neffa_nl linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/neffa