Wednesday 4 June – Sunday 8 June
11:00-18:30
Pop-up Shop
The Festival Pop-Up Shop brings together the best in sustainable fashion, rental pieces, emerging designers, innovative start-ups and thoughtful ways to refresh your wardrobe.
– Discover one-of a kind pieces from pioneering circular platform, The Alterist.
– Explore a new wave of designers at the forefront of innovation, curated by Flair Fashion.
– Check out Clara Chu’s colourful pop accessories crafted from discarded household items.
– Reimagine your wardrobe with bespoke transformations through the upcycling platform, Loom.
– Step into a world of plant-dyed textiles with Colour Earth.
– Experience the future of fashion with Balena’s cutting-edge materials.
– Shop a considered edit of sustainable brands selected by conscious retail platform, Round Retail.
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Alterist
Alterist is a platform built on creativity, collaboration, and circular fashion. Each year, 100 billion pieces of clothing are produced, yet less than 1% is recycled into new clothing. The majority ends up in landfills, incinerated, or left unworn. Rather than increasing the volume of new goods, Alterist focuses on repurposing what already exists.
Their online marketplace connects a growing network of 130 upcycle designers across the UK and EU, transforming surplus and discarded materials into unique, high-value upcycled fashion pieces. Beyond the marketplace, Alterist facilitates brand collaborations, partnering with businesses, manufacturers, and charity stores to creatively repurpose excess stock. From concept to creation, Alterist brings together designers and collaborators to extend the lifespan of textiles, measure their environmental impact, and turn waste into a story of transformation.
Committed to reshaping fashion culture, Alterist hosts community events, workshops, and campaigns that celebrate creativity and craftsmanship. By redefining perceptions of textile waste, Alterist is not just changing how fashion is made—but how it is valued.
Loom
Loom is an upcycling app that connects you with 100+ designers to redesign your clothes! Simply upload a photo of an item and get matched with brilliant design ideas. Loom also offers B2B upcycling services. Their collection with Oxfam is launching this summer. Featured in Vogue Business, ELLE, The Telegraph, Harper’s Bazaar and a top 20 finalist for the H&M Global Change Award.
Round Retail
Round Retail is a charitable fashion resale concept that creates meaningful retail experiences in meanwhile spaces that not only support our planet by circulating quality pre-loved fashion, but also the people that live on it through our charity partners.
Our community pop-up stores, workshops and events provide visibility and fundraising for charities, while our ‘Powered By Round Retail’ offering gives charities the opportunity to have their own branded store to engage their partners and maximise their impact.
Since our launch we’ve re-homed over 2000 garments, saved over 10,000kgs of CO2 and raised over £20,000 for independent charities and community organisations.
Clara Chu
Clara Chu is a London-based multidisciplinary artist and designer whose namesake brand specialises in fashion accessories that redefine the ordinary. Clara’s work uniquely blends everyday domestic mundanity with vibrant pop art, transforming discarded household items like mops, toasters, and toothbrushes into wearable accessories. By merging mass production with hand-craftsmanship, she creates visionary products that challenge conventional fashion norms, advocate for change, and promote awareness about waste through education.
Anciela
Anciela is a London-based sustainable luxury womenswear label, founded in 2019 by Colombian-Chilean Designer Jennifer Droguett to pay homage to her cultural heritage. Anciela gets its name from her Colombian grandparents, ANgel and GraCIELA. ANCIELA celebrates South American folklore and experimental tailoring through the lens of migration and childhood memories. Taking inspiration from art, literature and historical costumes, the brand offers re-worked tailoring and eccentric Ready-To-Wear interwoven with a hint of the magical.
ANCIELA designs with circularity from the beginning of the process, using and applying recycling, upcycling and regenerative techniques, delivering beautifully hand-crafted designs that are friendly to our planet. The brand empowers consumers and makers to embrace conscious consumption practices through education and innovative technologies like AR, workshops and panel talks. The brand actively supports diverse Latinx creatives by using fashion as a platform to showcase Latin/British culture and working closely with charities and non-profits from the diaspora.
The brand has been featured in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, L’Officiel, Metal and Forbes, among other independent publications.
Asmuss
Founded by sisters Clare and Fiona, Asmuss creates ethically responsible garments for the modern active woman. The brand blends innovation with nature to design versatile, sustainable clothing using technically intelligent, renewable fabrics and season-less silhouettes.
Committed to being kind to bodies, the environment, and garment makers, Asmuss produces timeless styles where function meets fashion. All pieces are made in the UK, either by social enterprise Making for Change or by co-founder and designer Clare herself. Asmuss designs clothing that empowers women to do more while minimizing environmental impact.
Flair Fashion
FLAIR FASHION IS AN ECOSYSTEM BUILT TO BRIDGE THE NEW ERA OF ONLINE SHOPPING WITH THE EMERGING DESIGNERS AT THE FOREFRONT OF INNOVATION IN DESIGN, SUSTAINABILITY AND TECHNOLOGY.
At the front end, Flair fuses the e-commerce marketplace experience with showcasing. Through storytelling and cutting-edge technology, Flair offers a new way for fashion brands to show and sell their collections — connecting customer to creator like never before.
Beneath the surface of the Flair marketplace, Flair is building a Connection Hub (COMING SOON) to pair emerging designers with the supply chain services they need to establish and grow their brands.
