PARIS – At an event hosted by Miroslava Duma and Stella McCartney at the Google Arts & Culture Lab in Paris, over 400 leading fashionistas gathered to witness the launch of Fashion Tech Lab (FTL), a new initiative designed to accelerate the fashion industry towards a more innovative and sustainable future.
The event showcased innovative textile technologies from all over the world, including yarns derived from spider silk, a peppermint-based antimicrobial treatment, upcycled yarns derived from post-consumer and post-industrial textile waste, marine and coastline recovered polyester yarns, and new developments in polyester/cotton blended recycling.
Miroslava Duma is a Russian digital entrepreneur and investor in the world of international fashion.