Fashion Revolution Greece

25/08/2026

Where Material Innovation Meets Circular Design
What if the future of fashion started with the material itself?
Presented at Fashion Beyond Waste: New Rules, New Data, New Opportunities, held on 30 June 2026 at the ESEE Event Hall in Athens, this collaboration between Athens Knit Lab and noéma demonstrates how research, technology and sustainable design can come together to create practical circular solutions.
Together, the two partners developed The Zero Waste Bio-Knit—a prototype that combines advanced 3D knit-to-shape technology with bio-based yarn derived from agricultural waste. The collaboration explores how innovative materials, precision manufacturing and circular thinking can reduce waste while opening new possibilities for responsible textile production.
The prototype was showcased alongside other collaborative projects during the exhibition, illustrating how partnerships between designers, researchers and creative businesses can transform ideas into tangible outcomes and strengthen Greece’s growing ecosystem for sustainable fashion.
📍 Venue: ESEE Event Hall, Mitropoleos 42, Athens, Greece
Featured Collaboration Designers
• Marianna Fasoi — Co-founder, Athens Knit Lab
• Varvara Panopoulou — Founder & Creative Director, noéma
Part of the Fashion Revolution Greece ecosystem.

22/08/2026

When Heritage Meets Circular Design
Can luxury fashion be reimagined without losing its identity?
Presented at Fashion Beyond Waste: New Rules, New Data, New Opportunities, held on 30 June 2026 at the ESEE Event Hall in Athens, this collaboration between Parthenis and SOFFA Social Fashion Factory demonstrates how heritage, craftsmanship and circular design can come together to create new value from existing garments.
The result is Petal Dance, a handcrafted prototype from The Bloomer collection, created by reworking two unsold Parthenis shirts into a completely new garment. Inspired by renewal and transformation, the project shows how selective reconstruction and thoughtful design can extend the life of high-quality garments while reducing waste and celebrating local craftsmanship.
Showcased alongside other circular fashion collaborations, the prototype highlighted how partnerships between fashion brands, designers and social production initiatives can transform surplus materials into meaningful products and strengthen a collaborative ecosystem for sustainable fashion.
📍 Venue: ESEE Event Hall, Mitropoleos 42, Athens, Greece
Featured Collaboration Designers
• Orsalia Parthenis — Managing Director, Parthenis
• SOFFA — Social Fashion Factory
Part of the Fashion Revolution Greece ecosystem.

17/08/2026

When Heritage Becomes Innovation
Can traditional craftsmanship shape the future of circular fashion?
At Fashion Beyond Waste: New Rules, New Data, New Opportunities, held on 30 June 2026 at the ESEE / INEMY Event Hall in Athens, one collaboration demonstrated that preserving cultural heritage can also become a pathway for innovation. The event brought together designers, SMEs, researchers, policymakers and industry representatives to explore the future of sustainable textiles and fashion under Europe’s emerging circular economy framework.
Amalthea Athens Ellie Sfika and Branding Heritage Branding Heritage Katerina Frentzou developed a prototype pathway that connects contemporary accessory design with traditional Greek weaving. Branding Heritage’s work documenting artisan communities and preserving weaving knowledge was brought into dialogue with Amalthea Athens’ approach to ethical, limited-edition design, resulting in a contemporary bag that celebrates both cultural memory and material innovation.
More than a product, this collaboration demonstrates one of Fashion Revolution central ideas: matchmaking creates value by connecting complementary skills, materials and knowledge, allowing heritage to become an active driver of circular innovation rather than a static archive.
Venue
📍 ESEE / INEMY Event Hall, Mitropoleos 42, Athens, Greece
Featured Collaboration Designers
• Ellie Sfika — Founder & Creative Director, Amalthea Athens
• Katerina Frentzou — Founder & President, Branding Heritage

14/08/2026

When collaboration becomes innovation, circularity becomes reality.
At the Fashion Beyond Waste: New Rules, New Data, New Opportunities event in Athens, the Fashion Revolution ecosystem showcased how meaningful partnerships between SMEs can transform material challenges into opportunities for innovation. More than an exhibition, the event connected policy, business, designers and circular entrepreneurs around the future of sustainable fashion, including Eco-design, the Digital Product Passport and Extended Producer Responsibility.
Among the collaborations presented was 3QUARTERS × Théla, where reclaimed plastic textiles were combined with decommissioned life raft material to create one-of-a-kind bags—demonstrating how local craftsmanship, material innovation and cross-sector collaboration can generate tangible circular solutions. These partnerships show that the true value of matchmaking lies not only in the final product, but in building long-term relationships that enable future innovation.
This video celebrates the people behind the collaboration and the growing circular ecosystem that Fashion Revolution is fostering in Athens.
Venue
📍 ESEE Event Hall, Mitropoleos 42, Athens, Greece
Featured Collaboration Designers
• Yiannis Pitsakis — Co-founder, 3QUARTERS
• Diti Kotecha — Founder, Théla

29/06/2026

Co-Creation Event | education and skills focus organised by SOFFA - Social Fashion Factory for Remode - Unlocking Circular Fashion Design Excellence

At theAthens Co-Creation Event, one of the most important discussions focused on skills, inclusion and human knowledge in the future of urban fashion and textile manufacturing.
This connects strongly with the mission of ReMODE Centers of Vocational Excellence Erasmus+ to support the transition of the fashion and textile sector through sustainability, circular economy principles and digital innovation, while building stronger bridges between education and industry.
The conversation highlighted a key reality: circular transition is not only a technical challenge. It is also an educational and social one. It requires:
new green and digital skills
stronger vocational pathways
collaboration between VET providers, universities and industry
inclusive access to knowledge, making and entrepreneurship
For Athens, and for Europe more broadly, the future of fashion depends on the ecosystems we build around people, practice and learning.
This is why the work of ReMODE and the wider conversation around Centres of Vocational Excellence matters so much.

23/06/2026

✨ Fashion Forward @ Romantso for Fashion Revolution Week 2026 ✨
A powerful meeting of makers, educators and changemakers exploring what sustainable fashion looks like in practice. ♻️🧵
Fashion Revolution Greece was proud to support this event hosted at Romantso, a creative hub at the heart of Athens, together with the European Creative Hubs Network.
In this video:
💬 Vassilis Charalampidis — founder and artistic director of BIOS, president of the European Creative Hubs Network, and the driving force behind Romantso as a space where culture, creativity, entrepreneurship and urban life meet. As our organiser, host and facilitator, he opened an important conversation on how creative ecosystems can help shape more sustainable futures.
💬 Dr. Fiori Zafeiropoulou — **SOFFA **sharing the vision of local circular manufacturing, skills, heritage and collaborative transformation in fashion.
💬 Eftychia Panagopoulou — PANSIK, presenting how education and upskilling can support the sector through ReMODE and DigiFashTech Manager partnered with SOFFA
💬 Garyfalia Pitsaki — co-founder of 3QUARTERS, showing how discarded materials can become desirable, practical design. Her new collection reimagines waste through bold accessories, including an extra-large waterproof tote made from repurposed life rafts that folds up when not in use. 🧡
💬 Emma Efmorfidou — This Was A Sheet, presenting a beautiful circular model that transforms hotel linen waste into new life: uniforms, amenities and everyday hospitality products made from used sheets and towels, thoughtfully combined with natural materials. 🏨🌿
From traditional textile knowledge to circular design, material innovation, systems thinking and real collaboration, this is how we move fashion forward. 🌍🔥
Thank you to Vassilis Charalampidis and the whole Romantso / Creative Hubs community for the generous hosting, and to everyone who contributed to such an inspiring exchange.
The future of fashion will be creative, circular, rooted in community and built together. 💙

11/06/2026

🌿 Reviving Urban Fashion & Textile Manufacturing in Athens
🧵 A FABRIX co-creation moment where research became collective action.
On 19 June 2025, we gathered at Impact Hub Athens for the FABRIX Athens Co-Creation Event, bringing together approximately 35 stakeholders from across the local textile and clothing ecosystem: SMEs, designers, facilitators, educators, community organisations and policy-related actors.
The event created a bridge between the WP2 mapping research and the next phase of FABRIX implementation in Athens. It was not a passive conference, but a working session: a space to map, debate, design, prioritise and imagine what a circular urban manufacturing ecosystem could become.
Together, we explored:
🧶 Materials & flows
How can textile waste, deadstock and leftover materials become traceable, usable and valuable resources?
🏭 Space & machines
How can small businesses and makers access shared workshops, compliant production spaces and equipment?
🔍 Data & traceability
How can we build a trusted live map of actors, capacities, resources and flows?
🤝 Skills & inclusion
How can we connect young people, artisans, technical schools, migrant and refugee communities, designers, trainers and businesses?
🌱 Governance & trust
How can FABRIX become a living ecosystem tool that continues beyond project funding?
One of the strongest insights was that the FABRIX platform must be more than a digital map. It must help actors find materials, spaces, machines, skills, partners and trusted information, while being supported by human facilitation, local knowledge and long-term trust.
For Athens, circular manufacturing is not only a technical transition.
It is a re-weaving of relationships:
🧵 between makers and materials
🏛️ between heritage and future industry
📍 between place and production
💡 between digital tools and human hands
🌍 between sustainability, inclusion and beauty
Warm thanks to all participants, awarded SMEs, facilitators and partners who contributed their time, knowledge and vision.
Organised by SOFFA – Social Fashion Factory, Athens University of Economics and Business, and Impact Hub Athens, with the support of Fashion Revolution Greece. Methodology design Dr Fiori Zafeiropoulou
FABRIX has received funding from the European Union Horizon Europe Programme under Grant Agreement No. 101135638.

21/05/2026

♻️💥 During Fashion Revolution Week 2026, Fashion Revolution Greece was proud to join Harokopio University for a powerful conversation on Fast Fashion & Sustainable Development.
Together with students, researchers and changemakers, we explored the environmental and social impacts of the fashion industry, from water overuse and waste to innovation, responsibility and consumer behaviour. 🌍💧👗
A special thank you to John Pitsakis — guest speaker from Fashion Revolution Greece and co-founder of 3QUARTERS — for sharing insights that inspired reflection, dialogue and action. 🙌
This year’s Fashion Revolution Week theme is Collective Action — because real change does not happen alone. It happens when universities, citizens, makers, academics and communities come together, ask better questions, and turn awareness into action. 🔥🤝
A heartfelt thank you to the Student Association of the Department of Economics & Sustainable Development of Harokopio University for the invitation, the initiative, and for creating space for such an urgent and hopeful dialogue. 💙
From conversation to consciousness.
From consciousness to action.
From action to transformation.
The revolution continues. 📣✨

07/05/2026

During Fashion Revolution Week and in collaboration with Fashion Revolution Greece the VETRINE project presents the online event "What can I do to raise awareness about overconsumption".

Join us April 23 to hear from major consumer advocacy groups and local organizations and let's explore how we can “Think Globally Act Locally” together! Details and sign up here.

What can I do to raise awareness about overconsumption? An online event in collaboration with Fashion Revolution Greece April 23 2025

07/05/2026

Coming up next week as part of Fashion Revolution Week 2025 - don't miss our event What can I do to raise awareness about overconsumption?

Sign up here to get a link and reminder by email (because we always need a reminder!) https://vetrine.eu/news/overconsumption-awareness-event-april2025