"Valentino Sleeping Stock", Maison Valentino & Tissu Market

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"Valentino Sleeping Stock" - Selected Valentino fabrics from the archives will be available for resale at French fabric retailer Tissu Market. The initiative is part of the Maison's sustainability efforts and the proceeds will go to the internal training programme Bottega dell'Arte.

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Valentino-Sleeping Stock Credit: Courtesy of Valentino

Fashion Calendar 16 December 2022: In its sustainability efforts, Roman Maison Valentino has now announced that it has entered into an upcycling project, called Valentino Sleeping Stock, with French fabric retailer Tissu Market, founded by Franck Lellouche. Valentino fabrics that have been stored in the archives and are no longer used will be put to new use in the future.

The partnership between Valentino and Tissu Market apparently began as early as September 2021, and according to the house, 22,000 metres of fabrics from Valentino's haute couture and ready-to-wear collections, such as chiffon, taffeta, satin decorations, floral-print crêpe de chine, silk georgette and guipure lace, all of which feature in Pierpaolo Piccioli's creations, have already been made available to the French fabric retailer.

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Proceeds from the sale of the fabrics will be donated to Valentino's Bottega dell'Arte, a six-month programme to train new employees for the label.

Other initiatives of the Maison

Back in June this year, the Maison announced that selected vintage pieces would be sold in some global stores as part of its Valentino Vintage campaign. A dedicated Valentino Vintage website was launched for this purpose.

The campaign is special because exclusive brand fabrics may not otherwise be used outside of a brand. With this initiative, Valentino waives this rule in favour of sustainability and sends another positive signal.

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The Paris-based fabric retailer Tissu Market has a leading position in the market for buying and reselling textiles. Located in Paris' historic ready-to-wear district "Le Sentier" since 2010, the company has a customer base from artistic sectors such as opera, theatre, cinema, fashion design, but also students. The founder and owner, Franck Lellouche, started his fabric business back in 1995.

Valentino fabrics, nowmarketed by Tissu Market:

All Photos Credit: Courtesy of Valentino

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