The future of sustainable fashion on over 700 square metres
FABRIC positions itself as an open point of contact for sustainable fashion in the city centre - with offers for customers interested in fashion and players in the textile industry alike. The shop is open Monday to Saturday from 10 am to 6 pm. On the ground floor there is a sales area that is used as a pop-up by changing fashion labels. Men's fashion from ADLER Altona will be sold here to kick things off. Next to the pop-up space, a café by Röstlich Coffee Brothers will open, serving fair-trade coffee specialities in organic quality. The first floor features workspaces for designers and a showroom where selected designs from the participating fashion labels are on display. The basement offers spacious areas for fashion events and a glass workshop. The spatial concept for FABRIC comes from Mint Architecture, based in Zurich, Hamburg and other locations. The strategy and planning office for architecture and interior design uses reusable materials in the Fashion Lab, including industrial scaffolding constructions.
Creative and innovative network from the Hamburg fashion industry
Participation in the Future Fashion Lab is organised via a membership model that allows participating creative professionals, companies and institutions to use FABRIC's spaces and infrastructure. The following fashion labels are taking part at the start:
ADLER Altona, Alina Klemm, AVA. Studios, Emir Medic, faible and failure, JAN 'N JUNE, Kantasou, Lea Theres Lahr-Thiele (ZERO WASTE COUTURE), MAISON MAG, Nicole Kiersz, OHneH, re-re Atelier, Rena Maria Weber, Vivian Roth
FABRIC explores the opportunities of urban production
Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft is setting up a workshop for the Fashion Lab partners in the basement. Here, innovative techniques such as automation, 3D printing, laser cutting and augmented reality can be trialled using digital technologies. Product tests of the latest machines and materials will also be possible in the workshop. The Future Fashion Lab will use the studio spaces and the workshop to test bringing individual production steps back to the city centre. The focus is also on the question of how urban production can be positioned in the field of tension between handcrafted individual production and outsourced mass production. FABRIC thus serves as a laboratory and open discourse space for future issues in the fashion industry.
Hidden potential in the city centre
"Verborgene Potenziale Innenstadt" is developing Hamburg's city centre as a project laboratory for the exemplary investigation and strategic implementation of diversity of use with innovative instruments - with the active participation of various stakeholders under the leadership of the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing. The aim of the programme is to revitalise Hamburg's city centre through a bundle of strategic and organisational activities as well as specific projects in order to strengthen the diversity of use, support structural change in the city centre and revitalise it sustainably.
The central project at the strategic level is the development of a vision for the future as an update of existing concepts - as an important basis for future development and as a "living document" that will be further concretised in the coming years.
In addition to the strategic and organisational activities, the funding programme is also about developing concrete projects: both prototypes that can be implemented quickly, such as new usage concepts or interventions in public spaces, as well as long-term projects that can achieve the goals of the vision for the future. FABRIC fits into the framework of these prototypes and explores how a lively and resilient city centre can be designed. With this programme package, BSW is driving forward the development of Hamburg's city centre as part of the federal programme "Sustainable inner cities and centres"
Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft
Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft is the city's organisation for the promotion of Hamburg's creative industries. As a direct contact and service centre, it is open to all creative players and companies in the Hanseatic city. More knowledge, space, funding and innovation for Hamburg's creatives - this has been the mission of the Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft since 2010. One of its tasks is to improve the framework conditions for the creative industries in Hamburg and to act as an interface - between the various sectors of the creative industries, but also with other players from business, politics and society.
Address and opening hours FABRIC
Galleria Passage
Große Bleichen 21
20354 Hamburg
Openinghours shop:
Mon - Sat: 10:00 - 18:00
Café opening hours:
Mon - Fri: 7:30 - 18:00
Sat - Sun: 10:00 - 18:00
https://fabric.hamburg