Beyond Fashion 2024

The Beyond Fashion Runway 2024 held in Puebla in August 2024 was part of the larger Fab24 - Mexico International Fab Lab Conference that brought together innovators, designers, and makers from around the world.

The runway explored the intersection of digital fabrication, sustainability, and digital craftsmanship, showcasing a series of projects by 41 selected emergent designers of various nationalities, including Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Jordan, El Salvador, Spain, Irland, Luxembourg, US, India..

Organized by Fabricademy, in collaboration 3D Fashion Week and Ibero Puebla IDIT with the support of Fab24 and Fab Foundation, the event aimed to support and encourage innovation and sustainability as well as the promotion of traditional crafts, local heritage and technology in the fashion industry.

Photos: Grace Gershenfeld

Designers presented their forward-thinking creations in an eco-futuristic runway, showcasing garments that went beyond aesthetics, incorporating digital crafting, upcycling, and responsive materialscircular design, recycling, and experimental textiles, with a goal of promoting sustainable and tech-integrated fashion for the future. The event was a platform for visionary designers to showcase alternative approaches to fashion production and consumption.

Some of the International Project Showcased

This initiative reflects Fabricademy’s ongoing effort to integrate sustainability into the fashion industry by blending tradition with digital innovation.

Zahia Albakri (Fabricademy)

Renata Salinas Pavia

Cynthia Gómez

Salma Merari, Zavala Duran

Stephanie Johnson (Fabricademy)

Raúl Babines

Anastasia Pistofidou

Batoul Al-Rashdan (Fabricademy)

Hakira Shumay Quispe Hurtado

Karen Antoinnette Honorio Carrillo

Nelly Puertas

Laura Freya Weller

Serrer Official

Angélica Rodríguez Alcocer

Stephanie Santos (Fabricademy)

Maricruz Chavez

Photo Credits: Regina Cotera

Laura Freya Weller

Dineshkumar Gunasekaran

Paulina Hernandez Galeana

Cynthia Gomez, Rodrigo Segura

Raquel Bettega, Shannon Sykes

Renata Salinas Pavia

Zahia Albakri

Stephanie Johnson

Batoul Al-Rashdan

Serrer Official

Anastasia Pistofidou, Shurzana Radnaeva

Yahir González

Anastasia Pistofidou

Nelly Puertas

Angela Barbour

Roxana Rivero Castañeda

Carlos Ramírez Pérez

Angélica Rodríguez

Salma Merari, Zavala Duran

Cynthia Gomez

Abigail Garcia, Andrea San Roman, Monserrat Islas

Alejandro Ortega

Ailyn Chang

Mariani Gutierrez

Batoul Al-Rashdan

Stephanie Johnson

Photo Credits: Valentina Villegas & Regina Cotera

Photos: Grace Gershenfeld

Beyond Fashion Runway 2024 took place on August 8, 2024, at the historical Ex-Hospital De San Roque in Puebla, as part of Fab24 Mexico, which ran from August 5 to 9, 2024, offering workshops, symposiums, and collaborative activities across the digital fabrication and maker communities.

Behind the scenes

Photo: Grace Gershenfeld

Photos: Batoul Al-Rashdan

Participants of Beyond Fashion 2024

Abigail Garcia, Ailyn Chang, Alberto Blanco, Alejandro Ortega, Anastasia Pistofidou - FabTextiles, Andrea García, Andrea San Roman, Angela Barbour, Angélica Rodríguez Alcocer, Antero Vejarano Velasquez, Batoul Al-Rashdan, Blanquita del Carmen-Jhoselin Ticllacuri Esteban, Carlos José Ramírez Pérez, Cynthia Gómez, Dineshkumar Gunasekaran, Francisco Flores, Georgina Rivera, Hakira Shumay Quispe Hurtado, Karen Antoinnette Honorio Carrillo, Laura Regina de Sá Oliveira, Laura Weller, Mariani Gutierrez, Maricruz Chavez, Misden Delgado, Monserrat Islas, Nelly Puertas Gallegos, Paola González Osuna, Paulina Hernández Galeana, Rafaella de Castro Lacerda, Raquel Bettega, Raul Babines, Renata Salinas Pavia, Roxana Rivero Castañeda, Salma Merari Zavala Duran, Shannon Sykes, Stephanie Johnson, Stephanie Santos, Surzhana Radnaeva, Valeria Corona Berlanga, Yahir González, Zahia Albakri

With the Collaboration & Support of Local and International Institutions