The inaugural “Fashioning Innovation” event, focusing on technology in the fashion industry, will be held at 6 p.m., Monday, May 1, in the Perkins Student Center’s West Lounge.

Hosted by the University of Delaware student chapter of the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists, the event is free and open to the public.

It will include a fashion show presented by the Functional Fashion Club, which will feature clothes designed by apparel design majors in partnership with UD’s interdisciplinary Biomechanics and Movement Science Program. The clothes in the show are adaptive, accessible apparel for individuals with physical disabilities or special clothing needs.

Also at the event, a panel of experts will discuss the importance of technology and innovation in the fashion industry. Mary Hopkins, an associate at W.L. Gore and Associates, formerly with DuPont, will moderate the discussion.

Panelists will be Meg Burich, a leader in the field of wearable technology and the marketing director for digital sports at Adidas; Linda Farquhar, founder and CEO of entreDonovan, an apparel company using cutting-edge technology to produce custom clothing; Ben Greenspan, a doctoral student in the Biomechanics and Movement Science Program with a background in mechanical engineering and a specialty in 3-D printing; and Emma Sidoriak, an apparel designer at GK Elite Sportswear, a company that designs and produces garments for Olympic athletes.

The event will also include presentations from such exhibitors as W.L. Gore and Printed Solid.