The European fashion world is enriched by a new, pioneering initiative: FashionTEX. The project aims to make a significant contribution to the training of fashion designers, to anchor digital and sustainable fashion design even more firmly in research and teaching and thus in everyday life. Experience in digital fashion design is to be passed on to students and the training programs improved. Eleven renowned European universities and fashion schools are working together. FashionTEX is initiated by the Europäisches Kulturforum e.V. from Dresden, supported by the European Union. The focus is on topics such as sustainable fashion, innovative technologies and intercultural exchange.

“We have been preparing FashionTEX for months and are delighted that we can now finally take the first practical steps,” says Bernhard Reeder, board member of the Europäisches Kulturforum e.V. “The idea behind it is very simple: we have seen and experienced repeatedly that modern processes are already being used and researched in industry, for example, but that this often plays a rather minor role in universities. We want to bring theory and practice together at various stages. International cooperation and a robust network will increase the professional opportunities and competitive potential of future fashion designers from the participating universities.”

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