Our vision

is a sustainable future for both women with a distance to employment and small fashion/lifestyle brands in Amsterdam.

Our mission

Our social mission is to bridge the gap to future employment for women whilst supporting conscious brands. We offer a safe environment where women gain professional skills, on the job experience and confidence to work in commercial fashion/lifestyle production. We also provide small, conscious brands with professional guidance and good value production. In this way, we create a more sustainable future for both our trainees and clients.

• Providing a safe, women-only lab for our local neighbourhood, forming a creative community within the four walls of the atelier and beyond through open days, workshops.
• Nuturing confidence to enter the workplace by providing production, professional and intergration skills.
• Facilitating on the job training whilst ensuring quality-led, local product development and production at value for money.
• Providing guidance to our clients, small sustainable brands, by helping them with the production process and in start-up skills needed to survive as a fashion/lifestyle brand today.

Integrating Circular Fashion Into Our Impact

Building on our mission to empower women facing barriers to the labor market, Stichting GildeLab integrates sustainability into our approach through our circular fashion model. This model not only helps our clients reduce waste by promoting responsible resource use but also plays an integral role in the learning process of the women we support, providing practical experience in sustainable fashion practices. As part of this commitment, we repurpose waste fabric generated from client productions to create a small, unique Stichting GildeLab collection. This initiative further reduces material waste while offering the women hands-on experience in innovative, eco-friendly design and production techniques. To learn more about this system and its impact, you can explore the full details in our Circular Fashion Model.

• Empower. Sustain. Create.
• Get the full scoop in our Circular Fashion Model