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Avantex Fashion Pitch

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WHY PARTICIPATE?

Avantex Fashion Pitch rewards the best innovative fashion and textile projects. This event, organized by Avantex Paris, the international innovation trade show for an advanced and sustainable fashion, offers fashion and textile startups international visibility with investors, professionals, medias and, of course, a major prize winner!

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WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?

The competition concerns three categories leaders of innovative fashion and textile projects :

Innovations in the fashion sector selected on the basis of three criteria

  • the ingenuity of the project
  • the socio-environmental impact in the sector
  • the economic potential

Innovative textiles and flexible materials selected on the basis of three criteria

  • stylistic interest
  • ecological performance
  • the level of innovation and expertise invested in the product

All innovative fashion products (clothing or accessories) chosen with regard to the four following criteria

  • stylistic interest;
  • ecological performance
  • the new inventiveness and expertise invested in the product
  • the degree of innovation that the product presents

Deadline for applications: July 15, 2025
Announcement of winners: July 22, 2025
Final: September 2025

The Avantex Fashion Pitch' Grand Prize

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From MESSE FRANKFURT FRANCE

 
 
 
 
 
  • A  startup booth (6sqm) worth 2800€ at the Avantex show following the competition
  • An endowment of €1000 (euros) from Messe Franckfurt France
  • A mention in the Newsletter post fairs (about 60k subscribers)
  • Depending on the wining project, a highlighting of the project on the Trend Forum
  • A financial allocation proportional to the investment of the sponsors
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From IFA PARIS

IFA Paris offers the winner a year within the “Foundry” incubator from September 2024 , with access to the equipment.

The International Fashion Academy, known as IFA Paris, was founded in 1982 in Paris with the aim of combining the heritage of French fashion with the modern, globalized world that calls for greater social and environmental responsibility. IFA Paris is proud to transmit its French heritage of fashion and luxury, combined with today's technologies, to more than 1,300 students on its campuses in Paris, Shanghai and Istanbul or online with its online courses. With more than 50 nationalities enrolled in its Bachelor, Masters/MBA and short training programs, tomorrow's talents evolve in a multicultural environment, rich in intercultural exchanges that nourish their creativity and curiosity.

 

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From TEXPERTISE NETWORK

Our partner Texpertise Network by Messe Frankfurt offers 1000 euros donation to the winner as well as a dedicated communication in its media channels.

With more than 50 international textile trade fairs in 12 countries, Messe Frankfurt is the global market leader for textile trade fairs. The Texpertise Network combines these events, current topics and global network of more than 500,000 industry representatives from all over the world - from Frankfurt, to New York, Atlanta, Shanghai and Paris.

In cooperation with the United Nations Conscious Fashion and Lifestyle Network, the Texpertise Network informs and mobilises the textile sector to implement solutions for social, economic and environmental change and creates awareness for the Sustainable Development Goals at its textile trade fairs worldwide.

Start-up finalists

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Jury 2024

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Yoobin Jung is based in Paris and works as Sustainable Fashion lead at Plug and Play Tech Center, a Silicon Valley headquartered venture capital and corporate innovation platform. She has an academic background of chemistry and fashion design and worked as sustainable textile buyer and development consultant before joining Plug and Play in 2022. She is bringing unique expertise on the sustainable textile and fashion product development for early-stage investments at Plug and Play and the fashion corporate clients' sustainable innovation strategy. She is also an advisor for Biofluff, a US-France startup who produces plant-based fur textiles and angel investor of Silana, an Austrian startup who develops robotics to automate garment sewing processes.
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Elodie Lemaire Nowinski is both a historian of fashion and clothing and a specialist in fashion tech issues linked to innovation and sustainable development. After teaching and directing academic programs at Sciences Po Paris, Columbia University New York and EM Lyon Business School, she is currently leading the project for the future National Tartan Centre in Scotland, combining a museum and innovation center dedicated to the iconic Scottish fabric. She is also a research fellow at the Glasgow School of Art, where her research focuses on the place of textile design in the feminine experience.
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Jayne Simone Estève Curé, international fashion expert, is passionate about educating, training and advising creative industry players in France and abroad. Her aim is to fuse creativity and strategy to support the visionary development of brands and projects. It aims to position fashion as a positive catalyst in a changing world, promoting responsible innovation aligned with global issues. As a teacher and advisor, she shares her experience to encourage excellence and innovation in the sector, where creativity and awareness unite to shape an enlightened future for fashion. Jayne is currently supporting the European expansion of the successful American brand L'AGENCE as European Fashion Director.
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Claudia Cesiro is a marketing consultant specializing in branding and storytelling, with 15 years' experience in the luxury and lifestyle sectors: beauty, fashion, design. She creates brand concepts for companies and start-ups, and accompanies them on their growth path. After working as a marketing manager for Italian beauty companies for years, in 2016 she became an independent consultant with her brand, The Ace Projet, based in France. She also works as a mentor for start-ups with Le Village by Crédit Agricole, StyleIt and Fashion Technology Accelerator. She is also a tutor in the Master Fashion & Luxury Brand Management program at the Instituto Marangoni in Paris.

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