NYTM 2025 Single Day Events
Upcoming Events
Designing with Nature as a Second Skin
Online / Talk / Textile Industry
Join ÍLÁT, founder Liat Gorodenzik, for an intimate digital session that explores the mindful design process and the inspiration behind her upcoming natural fiber women's wear collection. This immersive visual talk offers a behind-the-scenes look into the brand's journey of creating textiles designed to honor both body and Earth, highlighting natural fiber innovations and sustainable material and product development.
This event is part story-sharing, part visual moodboard journey, and part guided reflection, offering a moment of stillness and mindfulness. Attendees will be invited to slow down, breathe, and reconnect with how conscious clothing can nurture the soul and nourish the skin from the outside in.
What You'll Leave With:
A deeper understanding of conscious relationship to textiles.
Insight into the creative and mindful process behind conscious design.
A renewed perspective on the connection between fashion and well-being.
Lastly, you will walk away with a step by step guide to integrate this into your own life.
Liat Gorodenzik is a designer and founder of ÍLÁT Studios, a contemporary womens wear brand dedicated to redefining luxury through sustainability and craft. With a background in textiles and global experience spanning fashion, floristry, and visual design, Liat brings a multidimensional eye to the art of knitwear.
ÍLÁT Studios specializes in natural, biodegradable fibers and innovative knitwear techniques, merging timeless silhouettes with modern ecological practices. Each piece embodies mindful design, honoring the connection between body, material, and environment. Through thoughtful sourcing, experimentation, and circularity, ÍLÁT Studios seeks to create knitwear that is both enduring and restorative—for the wearer and the planet.
Inside the Designers' Studio
In person / Open Studio / Textile Industry
Join Pollack Design Director, Rachel Doriss, to go behind the scenes in our SoHo studio for an inside look at how our newest textile collection came to life. She’ll share the hand-drawn artwork that begins the process, the mill’s weaving and printing techniques, and how color, fiber and yarn play their role. In addition to seeing highlights of the Fall 2025 collection, participants will get a sneak peek at what’s in the works for Spring 2026.
Pollack is a boutique textile company that specializes in unique and innovative designs by using a varied toolbox of artistry, fiber contents, yarns and weaving techniques. Our studio is known for its wide-ranging fabric collection, marked by sophisticated design, intricate construction, and nuanced color palettes. From residential to hospitality and indoor to outdoor, Pollack designs are sold through designers across the US and the world.
Carbon Farm Tour
In person / Farm Tour and Talk / Textile Industry
Join New York Textile Lab for another Carbon Farm Tour! Experience this hands-on, educational event exploring how textile sourcing can positively impact climate change and regional economies.
What to expect:
• Farm Tour & Alpaca Visit:
Take a guided tour of Faraway Farm Alpacas and see sustainable farming practices in action! See their compost system and learn about soil amendment. Get up close to the alpacas and explore their role in regenerative agriculture.
• Meet Industry Innovators:
Connect with leaders from the agriculture, design, and manufacturing industries who are driving the shift toward regenerative, climate-beneficial models in the regional textile sector.
• Climate Beneficial Textile Displays:
Discover how textiles can help the climate and explore Climate Beneficial Verified textile products.
• Carbon Farming Talk:
Hear from Fibershed's Climate Beneficial System's Director Mary Kate Randolph about Carbon Farm Planning protocols.
• Expert Q&A Panel - Engage in a lively discussion with experts on topics such as:
o Carbon sequestration practices on the farm
o How farm management influences fiber quality
o Regional fiber cultivation, processing, and manufacturing
o Building a farm-to-product supply chain focused on slow growth and bio regionalism
o Organizing cooperative economic models to uplift small businesses
o Strategies for growing a socially and environmentally equitable textile industry.
Refreshments:
Light fare and beverages provided by Marbled.
NYTL is a design and consulting company offering products and services that support Carbon Farming practices. They create yarns and textiles that link designers with local fiber producers and mills. We help build a diverse, regenerative textile supply ecosystem, empowering designers to make socially and environmentally responsible choices.
Their textiles are made with fibers grown on healthy, climate-beneficial soils in our region and crafted by transparent, ethical, and local mills.
They believe textile production should thrive through regenerative, collaborative systems, not extraction or scarcity. Connect with NY Textile Lab and be part of a regenerative textile economy.