Experience Muntagnard

Covid and the production of our jacket Lana (part 1)

As for most, Covid came unexpectedly for us and hit us with full force. After the first weeks of the Lockdown in March and a certain surprise, April was far from the best month of sales. In this re...

RETHINKING TEXTILES (IN 1 MIN.)

According to the literature innovation (literally "innovation" or "renewal") mostly understood in the sense of new ideas and inventions (English "Invention") and their economic implementati...

WHAT DOES SWISSNESS/SWISS-MADE MEAN FOR US (IN 1 MIN.)?

We often get asked where we produce our clothes. After all, if you want to be sustainable, you should have your products manufactured as close as possible - in our case this would logically be Swit...

What is circular economy? (in 1 min.)

The term circular economy - sometimes also known or understood as circularity, circular economy, circularity etc. - is understood to mean a regenerative system in which raw materials are used for a...

WHAT IS THE MOST SUSTAINABLE T-SHIRT? (PART 2)

In the first part to answer the question "What is the most sustainable T-shirt?" We have already found that a newly produced T-shirt cannot be completely sustainable. However, we are firmly convinc...

WHAT IS THE MOST SUSTAINABLE T-SHIRT? (PART 1)

Even with a lot of hard work and dedication, no newly produced product can truly be 'sustainable' and the ecological and social aspects become very personal, depending on what’s important to a pers...

Circular economy for textiles - our view

Today's markets face major challenges when it comes to transformation towards more sustainable business practices. A "circular" model is currently propagated worldwide as the solution for a susta...

SETTING UP MUNTAGNARD

The first steps in the textile sectorSo there we were. Resigned from our corporate jobs with the firm intention of producing a haptic product that combines sustainability and business (more about t...

HOW OUR IDEA FOR MUNTAGNARD CAME ABOUT

It all started in 2016, when we, Dario and Dario, were far from home in Grisons and travelled through the Yukon Territory - a Canadian territory that is about twelve times the size of Switzerland b...