Reet Aus is a PhD-qualified fashion designer and environmental activist, a natural rebel who founded REET AUS COLLECTION®.

She is a pioneer in the field of industrial upcycling for fashion, and has developed the UPMADE® certification, in order to pass on her knowledge to brands and factories.

Reet’s guiding mission in life is to save the fashion industry from itself, and to show that there is a way of ending the throwaway culture that causes so much waste and destruction around the world. Reet is reducing the environmental footprint of the industry she loves.

🔗 (link: https://www.upmade.org/ text: https://www.upmade.org/

Anastasia Pistofidou is a creative technologist and educator who pioneered Textile and Material Labs in the Fab Lab Network, co-founded FabTextiles in 2013, and Fabricademy in 2016, a global educational program merging textiles, digital fabrication, and biology. From 2010 to 2023, she was part of IAAC Fab Lab Barcelona, leading projects like made@eu, Remix el Barrio, and shemakes.eu, which promote circular design and inclusivity in textile education. She curates exhibitions for international Fab Lab conferences and collaborates closely with the Fab Foundation. Currently, she is a PhD candidate at Elisava School of Design in Barcelona, focusing on the European projects Transitions.eu and Teach4sd.eu.

Irina is a Brussels based textile designer and artist exploring the relationship between the notions of resource and waste. Through the elaboration of materials, she seeks to detect and disrupt the criteria that determine the preciousness, nobility and market value of a material as much as those that generate disinterest. Pushing the aesthetic, mechanical and sensory limits of ordinary materials is the core of her concerns. In 2021, she co-created Cycl.one, a collective which focuses its activities on the reuse and valorization of soft materials.

🔗 (link: https://www.instagram.com/maloiririna/ text: https://www.instagram.com/maloiririna/

Half of my childhood life I spend trying to create connections between me and butterflies, our sweet apricot tree and the earth that was resting in the winter. Now I integrate nature in my pieces, such as foraged seeds, stones and marine gifts. I am sewing them on my garments and braiding shells on my necklaces hoping to tell the stories of our mutual home.
I am experimenting with different forms of recycled materials and textures, bridging the gap between art and nature, questioning our practices and our values, having at its core my childhood knowledge. Asking the question of how much we take and how little we give back?

🔗 (link: https://www.muse-um-concept.com/ text: https://www.muse-um-concept.com/

Miguel Peñaranda (Spain) is an artist and designer whose work focuses on performance, installation and textile practice embedded in a critical, political and urgent discourse. He also collaborates as a costume designer and creator for the performing arts. He obtained a MA degree in Visual Arts at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. His work has been shown in different festivals and exhibitions in the Netherlands, Belgium and Spain. 

🔗 (link: https://www.instagram.com/olmedam/ text: https://www.instagram.com/olmedam/