Tech and Crafts: Technology, Crafts and Innovation for Future Fashion

This book brings together a wide range of perspectives to explore the enduring dialogue between technology and craftsmanship in fashion. Moving across time, disciplines, and practices, it reflects on how innovation and tradition have continuously shaped the ways garments are conceived, produced, and understood.

Rather than positioning technology as a replacement for craft, the contributions reveal a more nuanced relationship―one rooted in exchange, reinterpretation, and continuity. From emerging digital tools to historical techniques and material cultures, the chapters offer multiple perspectives on how knowledge is created, transmitted, and transformed.

By framing fashion as a space where past and future converge, this volume invites readers to reconsider the processes, values, and narratives that define the field.

Guillermo García-Badell is the Dean of Centro Superior de Diseño de Moda de Madrid, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (CSDMM-UPM). He holds a degree in Architecture from UPM and a PhD in Marketing Research from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM).

María Luisa Calvo Frutos is Head of Research and Lecturer at CSDMM-UPM. She holds an MA in Pattern & Garment Technology from London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, and a BSc in Telecommunications Systems Engineering from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

Diego Prieto López is a Historian with a BA from Universidad de León, an MA in Mediterranean Archaeology from UCM, and a PhD from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. He is Head of Quality Assurance and Academic Coordinator at CSDMM-UPM.

Victoria Vásquez Pecile holds a BA in Art History (Universidad de Valladolid) and a Higher Technical Diploma in Pattern Making.