Textile Trends 2024/2025
Trend agencies developing a new approach to textiles predict the emergence of a “new sensibility” in the 2024/25 season. It is associated with the strengthening of three different approaches: plant-based, bioengineering, and technological. These trends show different ways to create fabrics that fit into a greener world.
Heimtextil's forecast pays special attention to "sensitivity". It is expected that producers and consumers will be even more attentive to the consequences of their decisions or product choices. This kind of thinking is aimed at redefining our relationship with each other, technology and nature - for example, in laboratories, varieties of superplants with superpowers are being developed, such as a new type of pothos (evergreen vine) Neo P1, which can capture and process some of the dangerous indoor pollutants.
Companies are now looking to create colors that evoke emotions and at the same time highlight environmental values. The production already uses special methods of coloring natural pigments obtained from the earth, and new coloring processes based on innovative bioengineering technologies: it is with their help that a dynamic and sophisticated color palette is created for the coming year.
Plant-based
Plant-based textiles mean that the fibers are derived from what grows rather than being produced synthetically. The sustainable advantage of these substances is that they are naturally occurring and therefore better suited for recycling into existing ecosystems. Textiles of plant origin can be divided into two groups. The materials of the first are made from plant crops - cactus, jute and seaweed. The second group is textiles created from plant by-products and leftover raw materials from production: most often these are bananas, olives, persimmons and hemp.
Bioengineered textiles
Bioengineering combines nature and technology and changes the way we produce. Fabrics can also be divided into two areas: fully bioengineered and bioenhanced, biodegradable textiles. For the first, strategies inspired by nature are used. Textiles are made from proteins, carbohydrates from corn, grass and cane sugar or bacteria. Biodegradable fibers can be added to conventional fabrics such as polyester to improve the ability of conventional synthetics to resemble materials found in nature.
For example, Modern Meadow produces bioengineered textiles using natural building blocks: proteins. Bio-Tex is a coated base that delivers color vibrancy and performance while reducing greenhouse gas emissions by over 90% compared to traditional LCA chrome tanned leather.
Technological textiles
Technology can contribute to the transformation of textiles through various methods: textile recycling, textile manufacturing and textile design. The development of technologies and methods for recycling waste is now called one of the priorities of a sustainable world. Design thinking is another method that addresses important issues of energy use or durability of natural fibers.
