Future Fashion Factory has announced nine fashion brands and textile mills to be awarded a total of 645,000 pounds of investment in new, industry-led research and development as part of the first Future Fashion Factory innovation funding call.

The list of brands, which vary from bespoke tailors to fashion brands to Yorkshire’s prestigious mills, have been awarded the investment for their “focus on challenges faced by businesses across the fashion and textile industry.”

Future Fashion Factory is an industry-led collaborative research programme linking the textile design and manufacturing centres within the Leeds City Region with the creative design and retail centre of London.

Future Fashion Factory announces first innovation funding call

Below is the full list of nine projects approved in the first Future Fashion Factory funding call: