Excerpt - Creating Sustainable Products, Eco Designed Products

The following is an excerpt from our 2024 CSR report. 

In 2019, materials - mainly, but not exclusively, the fibres used in our textile fabrics and supplies - accounted for almost 43% of the Group’s overall environmental footprint.

By 2023, they still accounted for 25% of our environmental footprint and 15% of our climate footprint.

In 2024, we continued our efforts to achieve our goal:

— by 2030, 100% of the items in our collections must be made from at least 50% low-impact, traceable fibres.

We have continued with our regular investments in this area since the Spring-Summer (SS) 2023 collection produced in 2022.

The slight upturn in the volume of new eco-designed products in the Autumn-Winter (AW) 2024 collection can be explained in part by the size of the range, compared with an SS collection that included swimwear and beachwear items.

In 2024, permanent or continued colour items comprise more than 50% of the range and 58% of production volumes, both in our own factories and those of our production partners.

In the same year, 48% of product volumes were manufactured in our workshops, with 95% of items coming from the corsetry, lingerie and underwear categories.

Since the beginning of our commitment, we have concentrated our efforts on the eco-design of our permanent corsetry items produced in-house. A huge research and development effort, carried out in association with our production partners, aims to duplicate this by integrating reduced-impact materials while preserving their intrinsic durability and good looks.

In 2024, the materials and supplies purchased for production at our own plants will be made up of almost 40% reduced-impact fibres by weight, representing a 45% increase between 2023 and 2024.

In addition to their integration in our permanent product line, the supplies and linings developed in a similar fashion are also used in the design of our seasonal corsetry products.

SPRING-SUMMER 2025 PRÊT-À-PORTER COLLECTION (LIFEWEAR, BEACHWEAR, NIGHTWEAR, ETC.)

58% of the items in this collection are currently made from over 80% reduced-impact fibres by weight. These items, often heavier than corsetry, have a significant impact on reducing our environmental footprint. Our goal for this category is to increase this proportion to 95% of the collection by 2030.

On top of this, 66% of these items are single-material, and 96% of them contain a maximum of 5% elastane, guaranteeing uncompromising wearing comfort for our customers. These two eco-design criteria enable circularity by making recycling possible.

Last but not least, 85% of our cotton products contain traceable organic cotton. This choice contributes to reducing pressure on ecosystems, improving working conditions for farmers and limiting health risks for local people where they are produced.

LOGISTICS INITIATIVE

Although our product packaging only represented 3% of our overall environmental footprint in 2023, we still took the decision to act further. Almost half of this impact is due to secondary packaging (cardboard boxes, e-commerce packaging, etc.), so we carried out an inventory that enabled us to draw up specifications applicable to our purchases using this type of packaging from 2025.

Our main warehouse in Picardie deals with specific requests from BtoB customers, who require the use of plastic film to secure pallets carrying cardboard boxes. To optimise our use of these resources, we have invested in solutions to reduce the weight of this plastic film by reducing its thickness. This has enabled us to reduce the weight of plastic used by almost 60% for equivalent shipping volumes. We have gone from using almost 2.2t of this type of film in 2021 to 0.9t in 2024.

For additional details, please see our full report HERE.