Andam awards 2025 innovation prize to Losanje

The jury of the Andam fashion competition’s innovation prize, introduced in 2017 and now in its eighth edition, has crowned two French start-ups this year. Andam (France’s national association for the development of fashion arts) has awarded the 2025 innovation prize to Losanje, which invented a technology to industrialise textile upcycling. For the first time, Andam has also awarded a special prize, which went to Apollo Plus for the Goldeneye Smart Vision solution, which utilises automated machine learning and AI to revolutionise quality control in fabrics. 

By winning the Andam 2025 innovation award, Losanje pocketed a €100,000 cash prize, and will benefit, like Apollo Plus, from priority access to the members of Andam’s committee of experts who have picked this year’s winners, and to Andam’s industry ecosystem. This will “help [Losanje and Apollo Plus] grow their organisation and develop a network of potential clients,” Andam said.

Losanje was co-founded in 2020 in Nevers, France, by Simon Peyronnaud and Mathieu Khouri. The two childhood friends studied political science at Lyon University and later went to the ESCP business school. They both became interested in textile upcycling, and they observed that the discarded fabrics destined for recycling, whether from garments, sheets or curtains, are still hand-cut in an artisanal and therefore overly expensive way. To overcome this problem, they invented a robotics technology to industrialise and automate the cutting process. They built the first industrialised line of its kind in Europe, capable of handling any type of textiles, including those that wouldn’t normally be recycled because they’re made of blended fibres.

Peyronnaud and Khouri soon set up their own factory and began offering their clients a bespoke service, helping them recycle fabrics that would otherwise be discarded. 

Goldeneye Smart Vision addresses a different issue in textile manufacturing, that of quality control. How to identify manufacturing defects in a quick and error-free fashion? The task is mostly managed by hand, and is therefore subject to mistakes. Isnard, the boss and founder of Parisian digital start-up Apollo Plus, has co-created Goldeneye Smart Vision to address this issue, developing a revolutionary technology for the ready-to-wear sector.

Goldeneye Smart Vision is an automated solution able to detect accurately and consistently the tiniest imperfections in fabrics and complex patterns. The solution is able to digitalise in high-definition entire bolts of fabrics and leather, providing a detailed, real-time analysis that can be fed directly into the production line. “Receiving this special prize by the Andam jury is a strong signal for our company. It vouches for our technology’s relevance, and strengthens our connection with key players in French fashion and in the textile industry,” said Isnard.