Museum to close as Fashion For Good announces strategic shift
Clothing and footwear sustainability initiative Fashion For Good is to close the museum it runs in Amsterdam and turn it into a co-working space.
It will run a final exhibition of textile innovations at the museum at the end of January as “a grand finale” before redeveloping the facility. It will re-open it in June as “an expanded blended use and co-working space”.
It opened the museum in 2018 and, since then, has welcomed more than 100,000 visitors, more than 25% of them being students. In that time, the museum has curated 13 exhibitions around themes ranging from biomaterials to “the uncovered stories around cotton”.
Fashion For Good said it sees its main strength as being able to co-ordinate the efforts and interests of innovators, industry and investors to take forward, at scale, ideas that will help the fashion industry become more sustainable. It will continue this work.
Managing director, Katrin Ley, said: “We are poised to intensify efforts through our innovation platform. This move is not only about adapting to change but leading it with focused and effective action. We are making operational adjustments to drive industry-wide innovation adoption more effectively. This strategic shift goes hand in hand with the decision to close the Fashion for Good Museum.”
