Anciela City Wide Celebration

In collaboration with the Design Museum. Join us for a celebration of fashion as an ecosystem with fashion brand Anciela as part of the London Design Festival 2025. Explore an interactive installation, take part in a conversation with regenerative designer Bonnie Carr and enjoy a performance by dancer Margherita Barbieri, all inspired by interspecies empathy.

Anciela invites you to step into an interactive installation in the Design Museum garden to become part of an evolving ecosystem of materials, organisms, and design. Happening during the iconic London Design Festival and London Fashion Week, the installation explores regenerative principles shaped by multispecies collaboration and radical transparency.

The event includes an afternoon of conversation around composting and circular design with regenerative designer Bonnie Carr and a performance piece by dancer Margherita Barbieri inspired by interspecies empathy.

Crafted entirely from pre and post-consumer textile waste, the installation centres worm empathy and the unseen labour of decomposition, through compost-inspired soundscapes, composed by Alex Stanley from recordings of soil life and textile breakdown, inviting visitors to experience a deeper sensory reflection on systems of renewal, decay, and care beyond the human.

Through Digital Product Passports (DPPs) and Augmented Reality in collaboration with SmartDPP, every material and process is made visible, offering a fully traceable journey from waste to wearable, from soil to story.

Register here.

Location: The Design Museum Garden, 224 – 238 Kensington High Street, London W8 6AG

Date: Tuesday 16th September & Thursday 18th September 

Time: Tuesday 10am -5pm, Thursday 10am - 12:30pm & 3pm - 6pm