Léopolda Contaux-Bellina

She teaches Think-Tank: Entrepreneurship through Innovation, a Cross-disciplinary Elective for Master's students. This course explores entrepreneurship in the fashion industry through the prism of innovation. Working with guest startups who are experts in their field, students, entrepreneurs and the teacher form a think-tank to question and better understand the levers that characterize innovation in fashion. Among the questions raised: how do we differentiate between innovation and novelty? What are the objectives of innovation applied to entrepreneurship in fashion and luxury? Can creativity be considered a form of innovation? To train enlightened decision-makers, she provides students with the critical thinking and reading skills they need to grasp the many strategic issues facing the industry.

With a double degree in Political Science and Sociology from The University of Birmingham, and in International Political Economy from King's College London, she followed an educational path between France and Germany. Alongside her professional beginnings as a political risk analyst, she founded an unconventional leather goods brand, which she decided to close in 2018 to engage more concretely with the issues facing the leather industry. In 2019, she created SED NOVE Studio, an innovation studio dedicated to the circular economy in leather. Specializing in customer experience and carrying innovative know-how recognized as a craft by INMA, she joins the IFM Incubator as an entrepreneur and wins the AMI x IFM Entrepreneurial Grand Prix in 2022.

• Lectures
  The intangible value of upcycling, IFM Fashion Reboot (December 2022)
• Program
  Cross-Disciplinary Elective - “Think Tank: Entrepreneurship through Innovation