UAL Fashion, Textiles and Technology Institute
The Fashion, Textiles and Technology Institute (FTTI) exists to address the major sustainability challenges facing some of the world’s largest, most complex and fast-moving industries – fashion, textiles and technology.
We are a team of interdisciplinary researchers, conveners, collaborators and change-makers. With our expertise, we drive innovation and good growth through research and development, knowledge exchange, and collaborative practice across business, higher education, and government.
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A researcher uses a fibre tracing tool to identify different fibres in a yarn | Photographer: Alys Tomlinson
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Attendees at the BFTT showcase event hosted at Plexal, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, 2024 | Photograph: UAL
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The Fashion, Textiles and Technology Team, 2025.
Latest news
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Kira Issar, 2023.
Material Futures: Transdisciplinary approaches to sustainable and circular innovation
UAL鈥檚 Fashion, Textiles and Technology Institute, in partnership with the V&A, is hosting a symposium to explore the importance of archives, the value of the material knowledge they hold & how more sustainable innovation is arguably best achieved through knowledge exchange across Design+STEM disciplines.
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Natural dyes explorations by sustainable fashion brand 11.11/eleven eleven - Copyright: British Council
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UAL awarded highest UK honour for its pioneering work in environmental and social sustainability in fashion
UAL has been awarded a prestigious Queen鈥檚 Anniversary Prize for our leadership and pioneering work in environmental and social sustainability across the global fashion system. The honour marks over two decades of work across our various Colleges and research centres to shape the fashion industry of the future, enabling everyone from designers to manufacturers and suppliers to thrive through new thinking and transformation.
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Image Credit: Kira Issar
Business of Fashion Textile and Technology SME R&D Showcase
Bringing together over 60 members from across the BFTT network, focusing on SME businesses, early career researchers, and partners.
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漏 Reimagining the Experience of Fashion: the Business of Fashion, Textiles & Technology, AHRC funded Creative R&D Partnership led by 91视频
UAL announces the development of world-leading Virtual Production lab
91视频 (UAL) is excited to announce the development of a specialist Virtual Production (VP) and XR Lab facility - via its Fashion Textiles and Technology Institute (FTTI) - creating capacity for innovative, transdisciplinary practice-led research in VP/XR textiles and dress.
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Image Credit: Blackhorse Lane Ateliers, 2023, photography by Illya Sobtchak
Blackhorse Lane Ateliers: UKs first Research and Development denim wash lab
The UK鈥檚 first Research and Development Denim Wash Lab was recently launched by Blackhorse Lane Ateliers (BLA) - a key SME partner for the Business of Fashion, Textiles and Technology (BFTT) at 91视频 (UAL).