Fashion Technology
Research and Knowledge Exchange
The Manchester Fashion Institute Innovation Lab – including computerised fabric and pattern cutting, seaming with and without threads, numerically-controlled embroidery and 3D body scanning – is central to our fashion technology research. Anthropometrics, sustainability and the Circular Economy have been a long-standing strength with many live projects including linkages between 2D and 3D design, designing for reduced waste and reuse, developing novel biodegradable materials, providing a knowledge base for niche crafts, and addressing the challenges of recovering value from discarded textiles. Wearable technologies is an emerging specialism with a current focus on incorporating electrical stimulation to garments to enhance health and fitness. Recent work has focused on wearables made from textile materials.
Projects
Evaluation of Tagging & Sorting Technologies which could be applied to clothing and household textiles
David Tyler
Potential for development of a novel system for transdermal delivery of vitamin D
Dr Tasneem Sabir and Dr Bartosz Buczkowski
Ugandan Bark cloth as craft based eco-fashion and its potential in healthcare
Dr Prabhuraj Venkatraman
Membership
David Tyler, Kathy Brownbridge, Jayne Mechan, Abu Sadat Muhammad Sayem, Prabhuraj Venkatraman, Helen McCormick, Phoebe Ageypei, Tasmeen Sabir, Paula Wren, Jane Wood, Courtney Chrimes, Zhe Wang
Visiting Fellow
Zofija Tupikovskaja-Omovie
Research and Knowledge Exchange