Germany as a driver for innovative sustainable textiles

There is an alternative to conventional textile and fashion production - and it is reflected in a sustainable design in which textile tradition meets the digital future.

Five designers and artists present new ways of combining materials, technologies and creative responsibility in textile and fashion design – practical, experimental and marketable.

This is what you can expect on site at the Master School of Fashion Munich, Room 006,
Tue - Thu 12 noon - 6 pm Exhibition, talks and sale

Leather bracelets, printed organic fabrics, textile art made of hemp,
A fashion collection with character that reinterprets loden – casual, cool, sporty-elegant with glamorous highlights.

Keynote speech:
Tuesday, 13 May at 2:30 pm
VDMD - DIE.FASHION.COMMUNITY + MEGATREND SUMMER 2026

4:00 p.m. Happy Hour
CELEBRATE . TALK . NETWORK

Wed, 14 May from 2:30 p.m.
Keynote speeches:
2:30 - 3:00 p.m. KATRIN DAUER
SUSTAINABLE FABRIC PRINTING
How does your design get onto the fabric?

3:10 - 3:40 p.m. Susanne Dienst-Lang, owner of the COWBAND label
FROM INDUSTRIAL RESIDUE TO HIGH-QUALITY UNIQUE PIECE
Handcrafted leather bracelets

3:50 - 4:20 p.m. Mariella Gänsewig
ECOLOGICALLY CREATIVE
How are natural fibres dyed with plant dyes?

4:30 - 5:00 p.m. Kaja Fröhlich-Buntsel
TRADITION MEETS INNOVATION
Digital costume design

5:10 - 5:40 p.m. Tina Noack
LODEN GOES FASHION
A fashion collection with character that reinterprets loden in a new way – casual, cool, sporty-elegant.

For a specialist audience, students and anyone interested in the textile and fashion design of the future.