Showcasing at the Imperial Sustainable Showcase and appearing on ITV
The 16th of April felt like one of the rare moments in a young company’s journey when everything aligns and comes full circle!
Back in November of 2025, we were invited to present Incador at UCL’s Ramsey and Entrepreneurial Societies, the university where both Karen and I completed our engineering degrees. Many months later, we were welcomed back to Imperial, where Karen went on to complete her Master’s, to exhibit at their Sustainable Fashion Showcase, a gathering of fashion industry leaders, innovators, designers and scientists working to shape the future of responsible luxury.
The showcase brought together some of the most exciting voices in sustainable fashion and materials innovation, from bio sequins made from beetle wings to dyes made from algae and textiles created from potato harvest waste, all united by a shared belief that luxury and responsibility can and must coexist.
With rising climate pressures and volatile oil markets, the cost of producing fibres such as polyester and cotton continues to climb. As new sustainability regulations come into force, fashion industry leaders are predicting that science and technology will play a central role in steering the global fashion industry.
For us, it was an opportunity to speak about the story behind our recycled gold, the urgent issue of electronic waste and the untapped value sitting in old devices. Precious metals recovered from household electronics can be refined to the highest purity and reimagined as something meaningful and lasting. It’s a narrative that still surprises people, because circular luxury remains a relatively new and even disruptive idea, and yet this is exactly why Incador exists.
For Karen, the day resonated on a more personal level. Stepping back into Imperial, not as a student but as a founder representing a sustainable fine jewellery brand, was a powerful reminder of how far we’ve come and how much we still have planned ahead.
Over the weekend, the event was also featured on ITV News, marking Incador’s first appearance on national television, a milestone that felt surreal and affirming.
Being recognised at Imperial and sharing our mission to transform discarded electronics into fine jewellery with an even wider audience, while seeing our work featured alongside other frontier technologies shaping the future of sustainable fashion, is a reminder of just how quickly the conversation around responsible fashion luxury is growing. The ideas we’ve been championing are resonating far beyond Incador, and people are ready for a new kind of luxury.
It has been a big year, but truly, we’re just getting started.
