Fashion’s new guard isn’t following trends—they’re rewriting the rules. These 13 designers are reimagining what fashion can be when it’s regenerative, circular, and conscious from thread to tag. Fibres fermented, textiles 3D‑printed, leathers grown from algae, and garments woven with purpose define tomorrow’s wardrobe. Welcome to the second edition of Design MatterMinds.
1. Shaghayegh Ranjbar — Architectural 3D‑Printed Fabrics
Self‑Shaped Textiles explores responsive fabrics that build themselves—structure meets scalability.
What Tocco loves: Fashion that prints itself—where form, fit, and future converge.
2. ACIEN — Knitwear, Nature in Every Stitch
ACIEN fuses natural dyes and local wool with slow-fashion methods, crafting knitwear rooted in place.
What Tocco loves: Luxury defined by land and material intimacy.
3. Maja Halilovic — Biodesign in the Balkans
Maja’s biofashion prototypes draw on fermentation and local waste, imagining regenerative textile futures.
What Tocco loves: Biodesign as a scalable system, not a trend.
4. Beyond Form — Circular & Customisable Design
Fashion Tech accelerates circular ventures, smart fabrics, and custom models in the fashion ecosystem.
What Tocco loves: Turning innovation into industry action.
5. Elsa May — Smart Materials in Fashion
Elsa’s work bridges biomaterials, tech, and craft—garments that adapt and respond.
What Tocco loves: When lab meets atelier, the future gets elegant edge.
6. Nikolaij Storm — Circular Design
Nikolaij fuses genderless streetwear with upcycled fabrics and closed-loop systems.
What Tocco loves: Bold design with a circular heartbeat.
7. Authentic Material — Luxury from Leather Waste
Authentic transforms luxury leather off-cuts into high-end textile composites and interior finishes.
What Tocco loves: Craft meets industrial reuse with style.
8. Adele Orcajada — Wearable Biodesign
Adele curates and synthesizes biomaterials as living fabrics—fashion as lab-grown exploration.
What Tocco loves: The intelligent curation of biodesign framed for wear.
9. Melina Bucher — Vegan Leather Craftsmanship
Melina crafts handbags using next-gen plant-based leather—elegance with ethics.
What Tocco loves: Where aesthetic and activism intertwine.
10. O My Bag — Leather Goods & Social Impact
Amsterdam’s O My Bag merges eco‑leather with fair-trade production practices in India.
What Tocco loves: Ethical luxury that lives its values.
11. LuckyNelly — Vegan Luxury Handbags
LuckyNelly elevates cork, apple skin, and other plant-based materials into sleek accessories.
What Tocco loves: Minimalist design powered by natural ingenuity.
12. Ettitude — Bamboo Fibre Textiles
Ettitude’s CleanBamboo™ is low-carbon, non-toxic bamboo fibre reinventing bedsheets and wearables.
What Tocco loves: They scale comfort without compromise.
13. Revoltech — Algae-Based Textile Innovation
Revoltech’s MATTR uses algae to create an eco‑friendly, lab‑grown textile alternative.
What Tocco loves: Algae meets wardrobe in tangible, lab‑to‑you materials.
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What’s driving material decisions behind the scenes? Beyond the showrooms and strategy decks, Tocco believes the future is being shaped by those who touch the materials themselves—and those who dare to rethink them.
That’s why we created UNBOX: the world’s first portable material library for these pioneers. It’s our tactile research tool disguised as a product—a curated selection of next-gen materials from the world’s most promising innovators, packed into a portable format for designers, educators, and creators.
Check out UNBOX project here.
