Circular Fashion Summit by Lablaco, the world’s first virtual-reality fashion summit created to promote a circular digital economy, has opened applications for the fourth edition of the Impact Design Hub, bringing together a curated selection of 10 international avant-garde designers.

The Impact Design Hub is a program open to designers across the world that have their own independent, registered brand that has launched at least one collection. The impact of the Impact Design Hub has spanned far beyond the summit, with former honorees Rui and Lukhanyo Mdingi winning the Lvmh Karl Lagerfeld prize in 2021, No Sesso received CFDA x Vogue Fashion Fund 2022 and Tokyo James being nominated as a finalist for Lvmh Prize 2022.

For this edition, the summit is focusing on ‘Rendering the new reality’, highlighting the designers that are exploring new possibilities through new technologies, merging the digital and physical aspects and making Web3 a reality in the fashion industry.

The 10 selected Impact Design honorees will have the opportunity to exhibit at CFS 2022 with an individual VR showroom space in the form of an interactive NFT in the SPIN metaverse; contribute to the CFS goals by taking part in a 12 months program with a premium subscription to lablaco's SPIN technology to turn their next collection into fully circular Phygital NFTs, as well as the chance of showcasing their collection at CFS' international retail partners, such as K11 in Hong Kong and an exclusive retailer in Paris, yet to be announced.

Applications for Impact Design Hub are open now until June 6, 2022.

Photo: CFS 2021. Credit image, creative & art: Spacegrey & Foggy Incense; digital fashion: IoDF & Spencer Badu.