Mylène L’orguilloux a de l’or au bout des doigts et du plomb dans la tête : à 27 ans seulement, elle vient de créer une ligne de vêtements conçue sans aucune chute de tissus, 100% zéro déchet. Une des premières en France.
En suivant les codes habituels de confection, elle brise ceux trop souvent associés à l'univers de la mode, où l'esthétique prime toujours sur l’éthique. Depuis son atelier bordelais, Mylène L’orguilloux nous prouve qu’il est toujours possible de faire autrement.

Mylène has golden hands and good head on her shoulders : at 27 years old only, she sets up a clothing line designed without any fabric offcut : 100% zero waste. One of the first designer in France involved in this way.
According to usual dressmaking codes, she breaks with fashions conventions, especially when aesthetics takes priority over ethical. From her workshop in Bordeaux, Mylène L’orgilloux demonstrates it’s always possible to do fashion differently. As a pattern maker specialized in CAD systems (Computer Aided Design) Mylène L'Orguilloux initiated the R&D project MILAN AV-JC, to explore Zero Waste Design philosophy.
Tired of being asked to follow environmentally absurd industrial design rules, she now explores new design techniques to create zero waste clothing patterns. Being able to see the "zero waste" constraint as a source of creativity is, according to her, a sustainable and innovative answer to the environmental disaster caused by the "world's second most polluting industry"...the fashion industry.
Garment creation, is not only about fashion designers' skills, it's also about pattern makers', pattern graders', pattern cutters'.. even though we often forget them. This R&D project brings them all together at the same level, in order to recreate a multidisciplinary discussion and make conscious design decisions.

After a 10 year long journey in textile, this project has a unique objective: Initiating a meaningful change in conventional fashion design & static pattern making practices.

MILAN AV-JC also supports initiatives which fight against ethical & ecological fashion drifts
By the way...our power as consumers is nothing other than a political power. Never underestimate it ! This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx