STRATEGY · MATERIALS · CIRCULARITY · INNOVATION

Strategic Advisory
Independent expertise for brands and organisations developing new products, materials, circular strategies and responsible business models.

Investment & Due Diligence
Independent assessment of fashion-tech, material innovation, manufacturing and circular economy ventures for investors, funds and innovation programmes.

Education & Executive Learning
Expert-led lectures, masterclasses, workshops and tailored programmes for universities, organisations and industry teams.

Innovation & Development
Cross-disciplinary projects connecting design, materials, technology, manufacturing and commercial opportunity.

WHY ALIGN?

Fashion's next challenges cannot be solved from one discipline.

Materials influence design.
Design influences manufacturing.
Manufacturing influences business models.
Regulation influences innovation.
And commercial viability determines whether an idea can scale.

ALIGN operates across these connections.

With a background spanning luxury fashion design, textiles, materials research, manufacturing, sustainability, circularity, innovation and higher education, Katarina Rimarcikova, THE FOUNDER, brings a practitioner's perspective to complex problems.

The aim is not simply to make fashion "more sustainable” in the current system.

It is to identify better opportunities, better materials, better systems and better ways of creating value. 

SELECTED EXPERIENCE

15+ years across fashion, textiles, design, education and innovation.

Experience and collaborations include:

Pro- Helvetia · Luxinnovation · The Sustainable Angle / Future Fabrics Expo · Lenzing · WORTH · Centre for Sustainable Fashion · Centre for Fashion Enterprise · CFDA · New York Academy of Sciences · British Design Fund ·

Fashion starts-ups, brands, innovators, emerging designers and business - independent work / NDA

CURRENT FOCUS

Circular Design & Business

Helping organisations move from sustainability intentions towards practical circular approaches across products, materials, manufacturing and business models.

Material Innovation

Researching and evaluating emerging fibres, textiles, technologies and alternatives — considering not only environmental narratives but design application, performance, manufacturing and commercial relevance.

Fashion & Innovation

Connecting design expertise with technology, manufacturing and new models to develop future-facing opportunities.

Investment Intelligence

Providing independent fashion, materials and circularity expertise to investors assessing emerging companies and technologies.

Looking for strategic expertise?

Whether you are developing a new material, evaluating an investment, transforming a product strategy, designing an educational programme or exploring a new circular opportunity, ALIGN can provide independent expertise or build a tailored project team around the challenge.

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