Specialised in luxury leather goods craftsmanship, restoration & repair, and sustainability & circular fashion, Thaís Cipolletta has over 15 years of practice within fashion innovation.

Thaís is currently advising a new global Richemont business, designing artisanal craftsmanship services.
Alongside, she consults on luxury accessories restoration, training artisans, making bespoke orders and supporting alternative materials development.

With outstanding attention to detail and a problem-solver at heart, she is a sustainability and circular fashion advocate and always looks for new ways to connect the consumer and the product, with a particular focus on Craftsmanship and Heritage.

Since the beginning of her career, Thaís delved into her practice by developing innovative craftsmanship techniques cross-transferring skills, and connecting to the design and process on a deeper emotional level, with its outcome highlighted during her Fashion Artefact MA at London College of Fashion and its Sustainability program with the luxury group Kering.

In 2016 she co-founded the The Restory, a women led luxury leather goods aftercare platform that has been since then a trailblazer in its industry. Her work inspired artisans, brands, and customers to view repair as a desirable and trustworthy luxury experience and to reconnect with their loved items, giving them a chance of longevity.

Thaís lead and trained over 40+ expert artisans (90%+ culturally diverse women) with her techniques, and these alumni are now experienced restorers for some of the main luxury fashion houses and repair platforms in Europe.
The Restory restored daily Hermes, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Goyard accessories amongst other brands, and had partnerships with Selfridges, Harrods, Manolo Blahnik, Farfetch and Browns internationally.

Through the platform she participated of Farfetch’s ‘Dream Assembly Accelerator’ 2018, Walpole’s ‘Brands of Tomorrow’s 2019 and LVMH’s ‘La Maison des Start Ups’ 2020, together with advertising in the main fashion media and contributing to major circular fashion publications and researches.


"Through repair, customers reconnect emotionally with their items, which incentivizes buying better in the future."

Thaís Cipolletta, expert contributor to the book Circular Design Guide for Fashion, from Ellen McArthur Foundation.