Future Fabrics Expo (FFE) 2025 returned to the 3,200 sqm Magazine London in June, welcoming over 2,000 visitors from around the world looking to source sustainably and responsibly produced, best practice, and certified materials for fashion, footwear, home and interiors.
FFE is the largest showcase dedicated exclusively to sourcing these best-practice materials, which can replace traditional fibres such as virgin polyester and conventional cotton that currently dominate the global fibre portfolio. FFE’s unique platform combines sourcing, knowledge and education to equip creative professionals with the insights and tools to drive positive change at scale.
This year marked the 15th anniversary of The Sustainable Angle (TSA), the Swiss not-for-profit organisation that set up FFE in 2011. Through FFE, TSA continues to support the fashion, home and interiors industries to transition away from fossil-fuel based, conventional, polluting materials to a just, nature-positive, low-carbon, circular economy that operates within planetary boundaries and contributes to climate solutions.
Future Fabrics Expo also provides a platform for cutting edge innovators who are developing solutions for the fashion industry of tomorrow. Our popular Seminar Series ran alongside the showcase to amplify key Expo themes, gathering global thought leaders and industry pioneers throughout the value chain to discuss insights, opportunities and action plans for the industry to tackle the climate crisis and biodiversity loss, while building resilient supply chains.
Future Fabrics Expo 2025 was the Flagship Event for Fashion & Textiles at London Climate Action Week 2025.
Over 10,000+ commercially-available materials and solutions were on display across the Expo
Including a curated textiles sourcing area of sustainably and responsibly-produced, certified, and best-practice textiles. These solutions presented a much-needed diversification of the materials portfolio, and accelerated the shift away from conventionally-produced, fossil-fuel based materials.
Over 120+ Exhibitors and 150+ companies represented
Best-practice mills, suppliers and companies from around the world showcased their positive solutions in their own booths, sharing insights into their raw materials, processes, and innovations. Visitors learned more about their sustainability developments and experienced hands-on diverse materials enabling a more sustainable industry.
SEMINAR SERIES
Held alongside FFE 2025, our popular Seminar Series brought together global industry experts, brands, innovators, and thought leaders from across the fashion and textile industries. These insightful conversations explored the urgent challenges we face as an industry, went deeper into the solutions displayed in the Innovation Hub, and shared learnings from our exhibitors: from regenerative farming practices growing regenerative cotton, to plastic-free leather alternatives.
INNOVATION HUB
supported by Performance Days and Functional Fabric Fair
The Innovation Hub showcased cutting-edge breakthroughs and prototypes in material science poised to positively change the materials landscape. New to FFE 2025 was the Innovation Hive — an extended area designed to spark conversations between investors and early-stage, funding-ready innovators. Living Systems Lab at Central Saint Martins, UAL, presented a selection of PhD research projects highlighting the value of design-led research to innovate for the textile sector.
RE-SOLVE LAB
Also new to FFE 2025, RE-SOLVE Lab focused on circularity by mapping systems pathways to capture the value locked in discarded materials. It showcased groundbreaking material technologies that are transforming undervalued waste into scalable, impactful solutions across fashion, home, interiors, and beyond.
FOOTWEAR HUB
The Footwear Hub mapped the complex multi-material compositions and waste challenges in this impactful product category. The showcase of forward-thinking footwear featured ingenious design strategies and fresh approaches, ranging from speculative prototypes to commercially-viable solutions.
HOME & INTERIORS AREA
This section featured diverse design solutions and installations, such as furniture, lighting, home textiles, and product design. It also spotlighted alternative methods of upholstery created without synthetics and toxic flame retardants.
FFE LAUNCHPAD
This new area spotlit cutting-edge commercially available materials, integrated with design ingenuity, and were launched for the first time at FFE — providing inspiration and signalling how the industry can adopt material innovations.
REGENERATIVE PRODUCTION LANDSCAPE COLLABORATIVE (RPLC) supported by Laudes Foundation
A regenerative landscape approach and programme that aimed to restore and improve ecological health and biodiversity, focusing on the broader ecosystem, strengthening local communities, and enabling businesses to source responsibly and inclusively.
LVMH & PARTNERS: REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE IN ACTION
LVMH showcased materials grown in regenerative agriculture practices by a selection of their partnering suppliers, and published report findings including measurements and improvements — reaffirming biodiversity as a cornerstone of the Group’s LIFE 360 environmental strategy.
SCALING NEXT GEN SOLUTIONS
supported by Canopy
For the fourth year running at Future Fabrics Expo, Canopy brought together innovators, producers, and investors across the textile and packaging sectors to accelerate the production and adoption of 60 million tonnes of Next Gen alternatives and safeguard the world’s climate-critical forests. This bold initiative looked to mobilize $78 billion in investments to scale Next Gen and future-proof global supply chains.
LVMH BUSINESS PARTNERS: CRAFTING THE FUTURE OF LUXURY TOGETHER
This showcase spotlighted the LVMH Group’s partnerships with entrepreneurs shaping the future of sustainable luxury, fostering the next generation of solutions and breakthrough ideas via strategic collaboration.
BERLIN INNOVATORS HUB
co-funded by the European Union and arranged by VORN – the Berlin Fashion Hub
This curated presentation of Berlin-based companies spotlit seven forward-thinking projects focused on sustainable materials, circular economy strategies, and digital tools that were helping to redefine the future of fashion.
THE FUTURE OF COLOUR
Supported by Parley for the Oceans
This collaboration between Parley for the Oceans and Positive Materials showcases a high-grade, work-in-progress dye lab where they investigated and trialled: emerging dye systems; application across multiple fibre types; testing under real production conditions. Parley’s global network of experts accelerated development, while Positive Materials provided the infrastructure and technical environment to move innovation beyond the lab, towards scalable, industrial contexts.
The recording of the full Seminar Series from Future Fabrics Expo 2025 is now available to watch online.
This is your opportunity to tap into the knowledge, tools, and forward-thinking strategies displayed and shared at FFE, driving real change in fashion, home, and interiors industries.
We extend a heartfelt thank you to every moderator and speaker who contributed their expertise, shared their experience, and vision enabling a shift towards a nature-positive, low carbon industry that works for people and planet.
