Futuremode: European Fashion Innovation Hub for Future Fashion

On 15 December 2025 in Warsaw, we inaugurated FUTUREMODE - a platform designed to accelerate the future of fashion through innovation, research, and cross-sector collaboration, which brings together designers, technologists, researchers, and visionaries to co-create the future of fashion.

WE ARE

explicitly engineered as a transdisciplinary space where visionary professionals, industry leaders, researchers, and global partners converge to co-create future solutions in fashion.

WE SEEK

to identify solutions that may otherwise be overlooked, consider untapped opportunities, and identify unexpected, inventive and innovative approaches.

WE WELCOME

collaboration from all sectors capable of enhancing fashion innovation—including, but not limited to: technology, software, gaming, automotive, architecture, film and the arts.

We seek unexpected connections and inventive approaches to designing the future of fashion.

a collaborative ecosystem:

* experimentation and testing of new solutions
* applied research & prototyping
* physical and digital presence
* interdisciplinary labs
* open access to selected technologies and expertise
* cross-industry projects

What we deliver for fashion:

* Game development and digital art
* New materials, biomimicry, smart textiles
* AI-assisted design & forecasting
* Virtual fashion, XR experiences
* R&D, prototyping, design labs
* interdisciplinary experimentation

What the fashion needs now:

* bridge linking Eastern,Central and Western Europe
* true interdisciplinary integration
* collaboration fuels progress: fashion + tech + science + gaming + art
* new technologies translated into practice
* supporting consumers, designers & businesses by accelerating meaningful innovation

meet the co-founders

Marlena Woolford

Board member of the Innovation in Art & Design Foundation, futurist specializing in fashion, AI, trends and business.

Aleksandra Szymańska

Director of the Creative Industries Institute, a cultural manager and strategist.

Anna Syczewska

President of the Innovation in Art & Design Foundation, interdisciplinary artist and fashion designer.

Waldek Szymkowiak

Board member of the Innovation in Art & Design Foundation, director and choreographer.