Losanje, the Nevers, France-based fashion tech company helping brands implement the use of circular textiles, is the 2025 recipient of the ANDAM Innovation Award.
This comes with a grant of 100,000 euros and networking opportunities, allowing the start-up company to scale up its business in France.
Through robotic production line, Losanje manages to transform finished textile products — from clothing to bedsheets and curtains, among other goods — into ready-to-reuse fabrics.
“We are convinced that this award will truly be a game-changer for upcycling. Recognition by a jury of excellence highlights the true potential of this method of revalorization and production, and its ability to establish itself in the fashion and luxury sectors. 2025 will be the year of upcycling,” said Simon Peyronnaud, cofounder of Losanje.
Introduced in 2017, the ANDAM Innovation Award recognizes companies which provide “innovative technological solution for a fashion industry more respectful of human beings and the planet” active across the biotech, new materials, production, distribution and circular economy fields.
“ANDAM exists to support all those who create or enable the emergence of new practices in fashion. The Innovation Prize highlights entrepreneurs who work behind the scenes to bring our industry to the forefront of the technological revolutions we are experiencing, often to the benefit of the environment,” said ANDAM president Guillaume Houzé.
“This is the case with Losanje, who this year convinced us with their automatic garment upcycling solutions, when technology truly gives textiles a second life. It is our association’s honor to make this hidden side of fashion visible,” he offered.
“I am certain that Losanje offers a pragmatic and innovative solution to scale the upcycling process from an artisanal to an industrial level, thereby unlocking its full potential for sustainability and value creation within the French territory,” concurred Nathalie Dufour, founder and general manager of ANDAM.
For the first time since its launch, the ANDAM Innovation Award doubled down with a second Special Prize by the expert committee. Goldeneye Smart Vision, an AI-powered textile quality control technology by French start-up Apollo Plus, scooped up the prize. The tool, which utilizes self-supervised AI, also generates digital twins of the fabrics which can be then used through every stage of production.
“Receiving this Special Prize from ANDAM is a powerful signal for our company: it validates the relevance of our technology and strengthens our connection with key players in the French fashion and textile industry,” said Goldeneye Smart Vision’s cofounder Thomas Isnard.
The experts committee included several industry names such as Éric Dupont, director sustainable development, business transformation, supply chain at Chanel; Nicolas Santi-Weil, chief executive officer at Ami Paris; Anne-Gaëlle Lamort, sustainability innovation lead at Kering; Andrea Rosso, OTB sustainability ambassador and creative consultant for Diesel Living; Guillaume Houzé, image and communications director and member of the executive board, Groupe Galeries Lafayette, and Pascal Morand, executive president at the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode, among others.
