Barbora Necpalová practice explores the intersection of fashion, art and cinema, using clothing to create worlds, stories and characters. Drawing from her Slavic background, personal experiences and cultural references, her work explores the absurdities and contradictions of contemporary life.

Dakota Burpee is a textile and fashion designer whose practice weaves a relationship between body, garment, and landscape. Their work reimagines wool as more than a textile, revealing it as a living connection between animal, maker, and place.

Kristrún Rut Hassing Antonsdóttir’s graduation work occupies a space between the organic and the strange, where ancient stories, natural materials and instinctive making come together. She explores ways of embedding Icelandic folklore, landscape and traditional craft into her textile practice, creating a dialogue that invites a closer consideration of craftsmanship and the inherent value of materials.

Rooted in the heather-covered landscapes of western Jutland, Hedestrik, a Copenhagen-based association explores raw wool through collective felting and hands-on workshops. Founded by Maja Høy and Liva Steuk Hansen to bring together a growing community around traditional wool craftsmanship, celebrating the diversity of local sheep breeds and championing a more conscious approachto textiles.

Steven Chevallier is a knitwear designer and painter whose work explores queer identity, marginalisation, and the power of challenging social norms. Combining deadstock yarns, felted wool, and experimental knitwear techniques, Steven brings together traditional craftsmanship and material exploration. His work challenges perceptions of difference, transforming symbols of ridicule into expressions of resistance, identity, and self-expression.

Jian Da Huang is a designer based in the Netherlands whose practice explores the stories, identities, and power structures woven into textile traditions. In Unwoven Heritage, Huang brings Dutch Gansey knitting into dialogue with Ghanaian motifs and Vlisco fabrics, reimagining how craft knowledge travels across cultures and histories. Through deconstruction and reknitting, Huang imagines alternative histories, asking whose stories survive through making and what new connections might emerge when traditions meet.

Trained as a dancer, Aalto graduate Ruusa Vuori found her way into fashion after an injury opened a new path for her creativity. In Second Skin, she explores wool as a form of borrowed protection, revealing the delicate balance between vulnerability and comfort through a wondrous interplay of texture, craft, and the body.

Dutch-Nicaraguan fashion designer Julia Verberne’s recovers memories, identity and belonging from garments and patterns inherited from her family. Reworking her grandmother’s wedding dress, blazer and blouse patterns across seven looks, Verberne embraces how memory shifts, transforms and carries traces of the past into the present.

Minerva Skyttä is a Finnish fashion and textile designer that makes experimental knitwear to create sculptural forms and unconventional techniques. Combining natural fibres with an intuitive approach to making, Minerva challenges conventional ideas of fashion production, creating textiles that bridge artistic expression, cultural heritage, and responsible design.

Grounded in upcycling and craftsmanship, Sally Bjerre Gaarde approaches fashion as a practice of looking backwards to imagine what might come next. With a material-led practice she explores the space between fashion, craft and cultural memory, transforming existing materials and references through meticulous textile processes.

Esther de Groot is a Dutch artist whose work is characterised by an expressive visual language that is reflected through the intertwining of different fields as graphic design, illustration and textile sculpture. We sat down with her to learn more about her new work and exhibition ‘La Chambre Bleue.’

Juha Vehmaanperä is a knitwear and textile artist based in Helsinki, Finland. Vehmaanperä’s work is influenced by queer theory, DIY culture and the mix of tradition and technology. They have a background in hand knitting and art, design education and their work has been widely exhibited all over the world. Their collection Fluid in Squares was exhibited in the NOOF lab from January 17th until March 31st. We sit down with them to learn more about this exhibtion and the vision behind the collection.

Sybrand Jansen is a designer whose work moves between fabric development and pattern cutting, but at its heart is about transformation. Drawing inspiration from ancestral, nature-bound ways of making, he explores how these practices can find new meaning in today’s world. His designs balance refinement and rawness, often shaped by cycles of decay, repair, and renewal. Through projects such as his graduation collection inspired by The Lighthouse and his current collaboration with Indian weaving mill 7 Weaves, Sybrand develops systems of creation that respect the full life cycle of garments—embracing community, material histories, and the regenerative power of change.

Collectie Arnhem TWENTYFIVE is the third-year collaborative collection of the BA Fashion Design students at ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem. Developed by 16 students, the project explores “neglected luxury” through the lens of craftsmanship, reimagining forgotten wardrobes of archetypal garments altered by time, environment, and modern reinterpretation. Working exclusively with natural materials such as wool, cotton, and leather, the collection combines traditional processes with experimental techniques that let gravity, decay, and improvised repairs shape the garments. Rooted in collective synergy, the project positions regeneration not as a concept but as a fully embodied design approach—integrating responsibility, craft, and experimentation into a vision of fashion’s future that is diverse, inclusive, and grounded in community.

Eva Popa is a knitwear and textile designer whose work bridges traditional craftsmanship and modern technology. Fascinated by wool’s durability and versatility, she explores how techniques like hand knitting, crochet, and felting can be combined with advanced industrial knitting. Her graduation project Resilient Forms reimagined Romanian shepherd coats as sustainable outerwear, highlighting how heritage can inform future solutions. Together with her twin sister Alexia, Eva is developing a brand that celebrates craftsmanship, durability, and innovation.

Jaden Xinyu Li is a menswear designer based in Antwerp whose practice transforms recycled and discarded garments into expressive new pieces. His work intertwines sustainability with storytelling, treating fashion as a space where materials and identities can be regenerated. Rooted in both craftsmanship and digital tools like CLO3D, Jaden bridges tradition with innovation, often working with wool tweed to reveal its vibrancy and potential. His graduation collection explored resilience and transformation, showing how heartbreak and personal change can inspire garments that reflect strength and renewal. Jaden envisions fashion’s future as one of individuality, responsibility, and emotional depth, where regeneration is both material and human.

Shushanik Droshakiryan is the founder and lead designer of Venus In Fury, a one-woman lab in Amsterdam where biomaterial research and fashion meet. With a background in classical fashion training in Armenia and experimental practice in the Netherlands, her work stands at the crossroads of tradition and radical innovation. For the past three years, wool has been her central medium — a fibre she treats as both ancient and futuristic, capable of redefining luxury through responsible, regenerative design. Through unexpected material experiments and collaborations across disciplines, Shushanik envisions a future for fashion rooted in cycles of transformation, ecological partnerships, and bold aesthetics that challenge the linear logic of the industry.

Milk of Lime is the Belgo German design duo of Julia Ballardt and Nico Verhaegen. Their collections consciously move away from trends, instead drawing inspiration from the overlooked materials, techniques, and local craft traditions of their rural surroundings in Germany and Belgium. Working with nearby artisans, they transform discarded fabrics, rare textiles, and natural dyes into one-of-a-kind pieces that reflect time, place, and a deep respect for resources.

Valentine Tinchant is a circular fashion designer based in Antwerp, known for her innovative and sustainable approach to fashion. Using her iconic zig-zag stitch she dares people to wear their waste. She does this by upcycling from within her clients own closets and educating makers to reuse what is discarded. We asked her to tell us more about her work. Valentine’s work is on display in the LAB till the 28th of May. 

Mariia Pavlyk's collections draw inspiration from Ukrainian pre-ancestral civilization, reflecting a harmonious way of life that values sustainability and tradition. Her work embodies responsibility and a deep respect for material origins, allowing her to reconcile her experiences shaped by the war in Ukraine and highlighting fashion's role as a form of resilience.