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Fashion Network
21-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Fashion Network
Balzac Paris, Ecoalf, Graine: Four fashion names debut in Biarritz this summer
Long favored as a holiday destination by fashion and lifestyle brands, Biarritz is once again drawing attention with a wave of fresh openings. The chic seaside town on France's southwestern Basque coast is now home to four newcomers—Balzac Paris, Ecoalf, Graine, and Galeries Lafayette —each offering a unique approach to local retail. Here's a look at the latest additions. Balzac Paris launches a summer pop-up Balzac Paris, the women's fashion label founded in 2014 by Chrysoline de Gastines, her husband Victorien de Gastines, and brother-in-law Charles Fourmaux, continues its regional expansion with a seasonal boutique in Biarritz. Located just steps from the ocean at 54 Avenue Edouard VII, the pop-up is open from mid-June to mid-September. Reflecting its seaside location, the store highlights airy summer pieces—dresses and swimwear being the stars of the assortment. This pop-up aligns with the brand's ongoing regional development strategy, following a late 2024 opening in Toulouse and upcoming debuts planned for Bordeaux, Aix-en-Provence, Marseille, and Lyon. Ecoalf opens a permanent flagship Spanish sustainable fashion brand Ecoalf has officially established itself in Biarritz with a permanent location at 4 Avenue de l'Impératrice, just a short walk from the beach. Founded in 2009 by Javier Goyeneche, the label chose the city for its strong surf culture, showcasing swimwear and casualwear that reflect the coastal spirit. The 110-square-meter space reflects Ecoalf's eco-conscious ethos, featuring net-zero emissions and interiors made of repurposed wood. The store caters to the whole family while advancing the brand's environmental mission. Graine unveils its first standalone store Graine, a young ready-to-wear label founded in 2019 by Chloé Chabaud and her father Christophe, has opened its first physical store at 54 Rue Gambetta—right in the brand's birthplace. Known for collections 'nourished by nature, seasons, and contrast,' Graine produces all its garments in Portugal and brings its vision of mindful fashion to life with this new retail experience. Galeries Lafayette opens a rooftop dining destination Galeries Lafayette's real estate division, Citynove, has unveiled a major renovation project atop its historic Biarritz store, which first opened in 1903. After a year of work, the department store has restored its rooftop terrace and rebuilt a glass canopy reminiscent of the original installed in 1925. Overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, the revamped rooftop is now home to a fine-dining restaurant named Biarritz Bonheur, led by former rugby star Imanol Harinordoquy and chef Jean-Michel Suhubiette. According to the company, the project reflects 'the department store's commitment to preserving heritage while embracing modern experiences.'
Fashion Network
21-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Fashion Network
Balzac Paris, Ecoalf, Graine: Four fashion names debut in Biarritz this summer
Long favored as a holiday destination by fashion and lifestyle brands, Biarritz is once again drawing attention with a wave of fresh openings. The chic seaside town on France's southwestern Basque coast is now home to four newcomers—Balzac Paris, Ecoalf, Graine, and Galeries Lafayette —each offering a unique approach to local retail. Here's a look at the latest additions. Balzac Paris launches a summer pop-up Balzac Paris, the women's fashion label founded in 2014 by Chrysoline de Gastines, her husband Victorien de Gastines, and brother-in-law Charles Fourmaux, continues its regional expansion with a seasonal boutique in Biarritz. Located just steps from the ocean at 54 Avenue Edouard VII, the pop-up is open from mid-June to mid-September. Reflecting its seaside location, the store highlights airy summer pieces—dresses and swimwear being the stars of the assortment. This pop-up aligns with the brand's ongoing regional development strategy, following a late 2024 opening in Toulouse and upcoming debuts planned for Bordeaux, Aix-en-Provence, Marseille, and Lyon. Ecoalf opens a permanent flagship Spanish sustainable fashion brand Ecoalf has officially established itself in Biarritz with a permanent location at 4 Avenue de l'Impératrice, just a short walk from the beach. Founded in 2009 by Javier Goyeneche, the label chose the city for its strong surf culture, showcasing swimwear and casualwear that reflect the coastal spirit. The 110-square-meter space reflects Ecoalf's eco-conscious ethos, featuring net-zero emissions and interiors made of repurposed wood. The store caters to the whole family while advancing the brand's environmental mission. Graine unveils its first standalone store Graine, a young ready-to-wear label founded in 2019 by Chloé Chabaud and her father Christophe, has opened its first physical store at 54 Rue Gambetta—right in the brand's birthplace. Known for collections 'nourished by nature, seasons, and contrast,' Graine produces all its garments in Portugal and brings its vision of mindful fashion to life with this new retail experience. Galeries Lafayette opens a rooftop dining destination Galeries Lafayette's real estate division, Citynove, has unveiled a major renovation project atop its historic Biarritz store, which first opened in 1903. After a year of work, the department store has restored its rooftop terrace and rebuilt a glass canopy reminiscent of the original installed in 1925. Overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, the revamped rooftop is now home to a fine-dining restaurant named Biarritz Bonheur, led by former rugby star Imanol Harinordoquy and chef Jean-Michel Suhubiette. According to the company, the project reflects 'the department store's commitment to preserving heritage while embracing modern experiences.'
Fashion United
17-06-2025
- Business
- Fashion United
Ecoalf secures ‘green loan' of seven million euros from Impact Bridge to boost growth
Madrid – Spanish fashion label Ecoalf secured a seven million euro "green loan" from Spanish fund manager Impact Bridge (IB). The capital will be used by the company, founded and led by Javier Goyeneche, to further boost its growth as a global 'purpose-driven' brand focused on promoting and leading the fashion industry's shift towards a more committed and sustainable model. Founded by Goyeneche in 2012, Ecoalf has been in the hands of London-based investment management firm Treïs since 2017. Fomerly known as Manor Group, Treïs, which owns 65.9 percent of Ecoalf, specialises in executing 'responsible' investments in various fields ranging from regenerative agrotechnology to green energy and fashion. Initially, the firm's aim was to boost and support to face Ecoalf's next stage of development and growth. This goal has been successfully validated year after year, and Ecoalf is once again ready to scale, now through the additional financing of seven million euros, which will be injected into its accounts thanks to the "green loan" formalised with socially and environmentally-focused investment firm, IB. With this objective, the loan granted to Ecoalf will demonstrate how "another textile industry is possible", stated Maria Samoilova, former director of Investment Banking at J.P. Morgan and current managing partner of IB, and manager of its investment fund 'IB Deuda Impacto España'. Through this investment vehicle, the Spanish fund manager grants loans to 'purpose-driven' companies and projects, thus contributing, through financing actions such as the one now formalised with Ecoalf, to financing their objectives and next stages of development. "Ecoalf is not just a sustainable fashion brand," Samoilova noted in a joint statement issued by IB and the fashion label, "it is a platform for change." Changes that "together", she noted, they will work to promote, for the benefit and construction of that other fashion industry, and to the extent that Ecoalf and IB "share a deep purpose, and this alliance seeks to scale that purpose". "This agreement represents much more than financing," stressed Goyeneche, founder and chief executive officer of Ecoalf, as well as a reference minority shareholder within its share capital. "It is the union of two organisations that believe in a better future and work to build it from their respective fields," argued the founder of the inspiring project that Ecoalf continues to be today. A business venture for which, Goyeneche defended, being able to "count on a partner like IB, who truly understands what impact means, gives us the strength to continue challenging the status quo" that still prevails within the fashion industry. A 'green loan' to boost Ecoalf's new chapter Beyond its total amount, the loan granted by IB to Ecoalf carries a different series of 'green clauses', which will cause the total interest that the fashion firm will have to face for having this new injection of funds to fluctuate, depending on a different series of objectives. These objectives will be linked to different goals and commitments to be achieved in terms of sustainability, environmental protection, or social impact, as part of a complete 'roadmap' established between the parties, and ultimately aimed at strengthening Ecoalf's social impact, and the shared ambitions between it and IB to contribute, 'in a tangible way', they highlight, to accelerating the move towards 'a fairer and more sustainable economic model'. As for the destination of the funds, Ecoalf will allocate the seven million euros, according to economic media outlet Expansión, to refinancing existing debt, as well as to boosting its new stage of growth, both nationally and internationally. A new chapter in its development for which the Spanish fashion firm has already taken the first steps, with the opening, at the end of last week, of a new shop in Biarritz. This new point of sale will allow the fashion firm to continue consolidating its presence in the physical medium and its commercial network, currently made up of more than 14 of its own points of sale and the presence of the firm's collections in more than 1,000 multi-brand points of sale. With the same objective, and facing this new stage of growth that Ecoalf has now opened up to, after closing its last full financial year of 2024 by increasing sales by 20 percent, to 58 million euros, the company led by Goyeneche maintains a different sum of strategic activations on its list, including openings already planned in markets such as Japan, where Ecoalf already has five shops; or the opening of its first franchised shops in Bolzano (Italy) and Antwerp (Belgium). Initiatives whose implementation will thus be driven by this injection of funds, with which Ecoalf hopes to achieve the growth objectives it has set for the short and medium term, with a view to reaching 2027 with sales worth around 150 million euros. This article was translated to English using an AI tool. FashionUnited uses AI language tools to speed up translating (news) articles and proofread the translations to improve the end result. This saves our human journalists time they can spend doing research and writing original articles. Articles translated with the help of AI are checked and edited by a human desk editor prior to going online. If you have questions or comments about this process email us at info@
Fashion United
16-06-2025
- Business
- Fashion United
Sustainable momentum: Ecoalf sees double-digit growth
Spanish sustainable fashion label Ecoalf is strengthening its global positioning with a double-digit revenue increase and the strategic expansion of its retail footprint in Europe and Asia. For the fiscal year 2024 ending February 28, 2025, Ecoalf recorded a +20 percent year-over-year growth, with sales reaching 58 million euros, up from 46.8 million euros in FY 2023. While the company did not disclose net profit figures, it reported a positive EBITDA of 3.4 million euros, underlining continued operational resilience in a challenging global retail landscape. Strategic retail expansion in Europe and Asia The brand recently inaugurated a new store in Biarritz, France, marking the start of its next international growth phase. This opening is part of a broader plan to scale its brick-and-mortar presence in key global markets. In addition to its current five locations in Japan, Ecoalf is set to launch its first franchised stores in Bolzano (Italy) and Antwerp (Belgium). These developments will further reinforce the company's international network, which already includes 14 own stores and presence in over 1,000 multi-brand retail partners worldwide. Originally published on by Jaime Martínez, this article has been adapted for an international audience by Alicia Reyes Sarmiento.
