Consulting
Entada Textile is an eco-responsible fashion design and consulting service working with international and local brands, garment factories, press organizations, trade shows, and federations. Based in France, we travel worldwide to gain the best possible insight into responsible fashion and the suppliers committed to this approach. As an advocate of sustainable fashion, Entada Textile promotes values such as the use of environmentally friendly textiles with low environmental impact. This involves reducing waste and water consumption to achieve a more advanced circular fashion model, as well as ensuring fair working conditions for artisans and industry workers. Entada Textile supports the values and objectives of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, particularly SDG 12. Our distinctive approach lies in leveraging cultural drivers – product-based, corporate, or geographic – along with the client’s specific context, in order to initiate projects in a collaborative and sustainable way.
We offer creative solutions for eco-responsible fashion design and production, with a strong focus on sustainability and ethical fashion. Specializing in lingerie, swimwear, and sportswear, we conduct trend forecasting and research, provide artistic direction, and work closely with our clients to create the strongest possible concept. We can then manage material sourcing, design collections applying eco-design principles, and oversee factory follow-up with clear traceability and transparency requirements.
Through our creative analysis, trade show visits, store checks, and trend research, we provide inspiration for upcoming seasons. These working tools help initiate meaningful discussions with clients to better understand and meet their needs and expectations.
We are present at key industry hot spots, mainly in Paris and Southeast Asia (Première Vision, Interfilière Paris). For manufacturing, we cover a wide geographical area, from French production and nearshoring to Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand & Laos, as well as Mauritius and Madagascar.
We travel less to limit our carbon footprint, yet we never miss an opportunity to visit exhibitions, conduct store checks, or interview professionals in the fashion industry. We also provide articles, fashion analyses, and editorial content for the press and specialized trade shows.
Thanks to our experience, we have delivered a wide range of consulting projects, from manufacturing reports for lingerie production in Vietnam to brand creation and the development of a creative collective dedicated to sustainable development professions. We have also deployed R&D, design, and project development initiatives for agents and brands across Europe and Australia, among others.
Trends & design
Entada Textile provides creative solutions for the design and production of eco-responsible fashion, primarily focused on sustainability and ethical fashion.
We work on trends and product concepts all the way through to material sourcing. Our process begins with the development of an inspiration mood board, followed by a fabric board, a clear design direction, and finally a collection update once Fashion Weeks have launched.
We remain constantly attentive to the fashion industry and continuously seek innovation from sociological, product, and marketing perspectives.
We design clothing collections in alignment with each brand’s DNA and the specific needs of our clients.
Sustainable Sourcing
We source raw materials for you, provide technical sheets to factories, and collaborate with them throughout the product development process.
We can also oversee prototype assembly and quality control, sustainable sourcing, and ethical manufacturing.
We rely on our six sourcing KPIs: Quality, Transparency, Traceability, Proximity, Contribution, and Eco-Design.
From organic raw materials to recycled, recyclable, bio-based, regenerative, and innovative options, we secure the supply chain by carefully verifying the social and environmental commitments of our suppliers.
Long-Term Support
As an eco-responsible fashion consultant, we provide guidance on eco-design, circular product development, sustainable sourcing, and ethical manufacturing.
Through our core actions – Research, Create, Write, and Share – we offer support in trend forecasting and design, sourcing and production follow-up, as well as B Corp certification guidance, for example. In this way, we help cover trend analysis to collaborate effectively with design, merchandising, and marketing teams, while also supporting sourcing and purchasing departments in light of double materiality and CSRD requirements.
Ongoing support enables the implementation of B Corp’s systemic principles, including the Impact Business Model (IBM) best suited to your organization. We rely on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and ISO 26000 standards to help define your CSR roadmap and duty of care strategy.
Traceability and transparency are at the heart of our sourcing approach, and we carefully select partners based on these criteria.
Long-term support is structured, consistent, and spread over time; it can range from a few weeks to several months.
Short-Term Support
Within our core actions, Sharing has led to the creation of our mentoring, copywriting, conference, and responsible textile training services through dedicated masterclasses.
During mentoring sessions, we address the key questions emerging brands may have regarding eco-responsible fashion market trends, creative direction, and sustainable sourcing.
By combining our expertise, we produce editorial content in the form of articles and features, organize conferences and round tables for the press, trade shows, and schools. In addition, all our masterclasses on the systemic approach to sourcing are available to provide training in sustainable and responsible sourcing.
We attend the most relevant trade shows, festivals, and conferences, and can therefore act as your eyes and ears at these events.
We can provide reports on all these topics. Short-term support is project-based and can last from one to several weeks.
B Leader Support – B Corp™ Certification
In 2022, I became a #BLeader with B Corporation. This means I was recognized by B Corporation™ as a sustainability expert – in my case, within the fashion industry – to support companies applying for #Bcorp certification.
Thanks to our experience, we have delivered a wide range of consulting projects, from a national report on lingerie manufacturing in Vietnam to brand creation, collective design initiatives, creative studio development, retail strategy, as well as R&D and project development for agents and brands across Europe and Australia.
Becoming a B Corp™ certified company requires a deep understanding of your business model, measuring your overall impact, and adopting a 360° CSR strategy. We support you in the preparatory work through the B Leader training provided by B Lab France™.
Together, we co-develop a comprehensive CSR strategy at every operational level, built around a clear purpose. We help create a dedicated CSR team or collaborate with your existing teams to navigate the certification process and fully leverage self-assessment tools such as the BIA (Business Impact Assessment). By using B Corp’s official resources and adapting them to your specific context, we can also help enhance your competitiveness.
Our mission: to understand your challenges and objectives in order to strengthen your certification journey, improve your application file, and pre-audit the evolution of your business before certification or re-certification.
Version 7 of the BIA is currently under development and will be available in 2024; we are already trained on this new version.
We share B Corp’s purpose:
“To be the best for the world, not the best in the world.”
Optional: The certification process is compatible with and complementary to becoming a Société à Mission (mission-driven company).
