PARIS — Zadig & Voltaire has named Hélène Jessua head of sustainable growth, reflecting the style business’s elevated concentrate on the setting.
“Her mastery of environmental and social points in provide chains, her 360-degree imaginative and prescient of issues linked to the evolution of consumption habits and her worldwide tradition permits us to jot down a brand new, bold chapter for the model and align Zadig & Voltaire’s know-how with the considerations of our instances,” mentioned chief govt officer Rémy Baume.
Jessua, 46, began her profession at Carrefour, the place she spend a decade within the sustainability division. She then moved to Redcats, a list enterprise that belonged to Kering — on the time referred to as PPR — the place she helped over a dozen labels with their growth methods.
She joined French ReFashion in 2014 as director of the French affiliation that helps textile corporations handle inventory with a watch to repairing and recycling merchandise. Since 2017, as an impartial marketing consultant, Jessua has been advising corporations on company social accountability points.
Beneath the path of Baume, who took the helm of the contemporary French fashion label in January 2020, Zadig & Voltaire has been specializing