About

Founder

The consultancy is led by Louise, founded in 2014 to offer an array of supply chain and operational services, at a level of high expertise to the fashion industry. Louise is a dynamic, experienced and very successful Managing Director/ Consultant with a proven track record of helping brands grow from start-ups to multi-million-pound businesses.

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About Louise Laing

Louise is a dynamic, experienced and successful fashion entrepreneur and thought leader with a proven track record of launching brands that can go from start-ups to multi million pound businesses.

In the last three years Louise has launched four companies from scratch: Thames, Noema-Prao, WeareKintana & City States. Prior to that Louise was the MD of Shrimps, where during her tenure, the brand flourished and revenue quadrupled. Louise is currently working on more start ups, established brands and with Caravana on bespoke projects to increase their global supply chain capabilities and increase revenue throughout the value chain.

Louise has spent 22 years working throughout the fashion industry. Her experience focuses primarily on maximising the operational and commercial side of businesses. She has held senior positions in sourcing and production, and had many wonderful adventures, at brands such as Burberry, Kilgour and Reiss. In 2014 Louise founded her consultancy to offer an array of supply chain and operational services, at a level of high expertise to the fashion industry.

Louise is a creative innovator and industry pioneer on how to reduce waste in fashion, and is a regular writer on the subject, http://www.louiselaing.co.uk/news/

Her passion for sustainability and ESG is second to none - the goal being to help companies strive to meet their UN Sustainability goals, evaluating parts of the value chain that have a role to play in driving decarbonisation to bring about real and lasting change in the fashion industry.

Louise enjoys a reputation for consistently streamlining businesses, but is also adept at advising clients on their digital fashion & metaverse strategies. She is a genuine fashion revolutionary, and is at the forefront of the digitisation of the fashion world, while also being a campaigner for real change - both environmental and social.

By building an industry-disrupting eco fashion market-place called
Louise is thoughtful, fun and collaborative. She is a natural leader, and even though she wears trainers, is a tenacious problem solver as well as someone who loves nurturing those around her and growing teams.

Louise holds a degree in Fashion & Business and lives in London with her two children.

https://thamesmmxx.com

https://wearekintana.com

https://www.caravana.land

https://www.noemamykonos.com/store

During her career Louise has created and improved the supply chains of many businesses, enabling them to deliver on time, at right price and to the best quality. Most recently Louise has moved into the digital space and is working with brands using digital technology and modern business models to help them reduce waste and timelines within their supply chains.

She is a natural leader, is a tenacious problem solver as well as someone who loves nurturing those around her and growing teams. She has a passion for making fashion more sustainable.

Louise holds a degree in Fashion & Business and lives in London with her two children.

Louise has an incredible gift for making the complex simple and streamlined. She consults impeccably to understand organisational needs and then brings innovative business relevant ideas and solutions to the table. She is a pleasure to work with and always delivers to an exceptionally high standard.

Andres Del Risco - Foundry Digital

SERVICES

3D Designs and Wearables

We support your design, navigating the constraints of pricing, availability, timings and minimums, with experience and integrity, delivering your inspiration and imagination from you to your customer.

NFTs and the Metaverse

Several fashion brands are jumping onto the NFT brand-wagon, metaverse bound but few have stepped aside to understand what this means. We are metaversal- - we offer a digital luxury experience in the new virtual world. Our goal is to enable all digital assets minted and sold to be interoperable with collaborative and partner metaverses.

Sourcing, Product Development and Production.

Long-range business planning helps companies to think differently about the company’s direction. It also provides motivation and insight enabling the performance necessary to meet business goals.

Circularity, ESG and Sustainability

Whether you are a start up or an established business, we will support you and provide you with tools to help you become more circular and sustainable.

Sales- e-commerce, wholesale & commercials.

Whether you are a start up or an established business, we can help you to grow your e-commerce.

Strategy, business plans and planning.

Whatever the scale of your project, you need a sourcing strategy that is compatible with your commercial objectives. Establishing a thorough understanding of these objectives, we work with you to deliver an effective, business-driven sourcing approach.