Discover our core programmes designed to
kickstart your circular transition.
ABOUT US
The Lucerna Manifesto
Fashion designers shouldn’t have to stop creating, and consumers shouldn’t have to compromise on style to “save the planet.”
Fashion brands who have run take-back or considered it know one thing – the process is a labour of love. Sorting clothes is manual. Dealing with an unpredictable inventory in various conditions is a logistic nightmare. And when volume accumulates and manpower lags behind, a preloved collection can easily turn into a thrifting chaos.
Yet, without taking products back and giving them a new life, a brand’s sustainability effort is significantly thwarted. Organic cotton, recycled packaging, and carbon-neutral shipping don’t offset the impact of a garment worn twice then discarded, which most of the time ends up in landfill or incineration. Environmental effect aside, it is a waste of the effort that was put into making quality clothing. It puts fashion brands in a dilemma – the more products you make, the more problems are created downstream.
Fashion designers shouldn’t have to stop creating, and consumers shouldn’t have to compromise on style to ‘save the planet’. At Lucerna Impact, we integrate sustainability seamlessly into design and consumption. By consolidating take-back efforts, encouraging public participation, upcycling, recycling, and disposing responsibly, we transform downstream liability into a sustainably stylish future.
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Using a garment twice as many times before disposal eliminates almost 50% of its climate impact, regardless of the impact category.
Source: Mistra Future Fashion
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Branded Takeback:
Turnkey Circular Fashion Solutions
We provide the engine that runs your take-back programme, so taking the first step towards circularity can be as easy as deciding to do it.
What You Get
Deepened Customer Loyalty
A branded take-back experience extends your sustainability commitments further and invites your customers to join the journey. This active engagement builds customer loyalty beyond standard transactional relationships, generating word-of-mouth advocacy and driving subsequent purchases more effectively than traditional advertising.
Strengthened Brand Equity
Protecting and elevating your brand value is central to our operational design. We manage a strict, multi-point inspection process, curate products meticulously, and design an elevated shopping experience for customers buying preloved. Every brand partner receives a dedicated, customised portal at shop.lucernaimpact.com/yourbrand, tailored to your unique visual identity.
Proven Commercial Viability & Shared Scale
Circularity can be a secondary revenue generator, not a cost center, as demonstrated by industry pioneers like Eileen Fisher. However, profitable circularity requires operational scale. By joining our programme alongside select brand partners, you leverage collective volume to maximise the ROI or take-back and resale, without the prohibitive cost of building and maintaining it alone.
Audit-Ready Impact Reporting
Our 5-step process ensures a verifiable chain of custody and data transparency. You receive comprehensive metrics detailing diverted garment weights, textile waste reduction, and carbon mitigation. This impact data is compiled monthly for monitoring and annually for your corporate sustainability reporting.
Interested in
launching branded
take-back with us?
We conduct data-driven secondary market research for fashion brands, allowing you to evaluate your secondhand footprint before making decisions.
Share a few details about your brand, and we will prepare your custom report.
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Upcycling Workshop: Co-creating with
Your Customers & the Community
By tapping into collective creativity, we unlock new, unexpected purposes for your excess material, offcuts and worn garments, and bond with your customers in new ways.
What You Get
Bespoke Experiential Brand Engagement
Our event team translates your brand’s ethos into creative workshop ideas that tell the unique story of your design philosophy, aesthetics and material choices.
End-to-End Event Planning and Execution
We eliminate the logistic complexity of event hosting for you, from brainstorming impactful upcycling ideas to securing sewing equipment and tools, coordinating event setup, guest registration, and live session facilitation. We also manage the environmental footprint of the event, ensuring a sustainable execution throughout.
Brand Content & Storytelling
An upcycling workshop is a memorable way to tell your brand story, generating brand content and social media shares that showcase your design and circular values. Get inspired by NKWO – the iconic brand that builds luxury design collections centred entirely around upcycled materials and goes viral for how they do it.
Community Engagement & Possibility of Grant Funding
If you choose to extend this experience to the public, you can tap into local grant support to offset your costs. Beyond the financial incentive, bringing your innovative upcycling projects to the wider Singapore community allows you to broaden your audience and give back through your unique perspective.
Branded Takeback CTA
A branded take-back experience extends your sustainability commitments further and invites your customers to join the journey. This active engagement builds customer loyalty beyond standard transactional relationships, generating word-of-mouth advocacy and driving subsequent purchases more effectively than traditional advertising.
Have an upcycling
activation idea?
Share with us what you have in mind, and our team will outline a custom workshop concept to bring your vision to life.
Innovative projects involving community engagement may qualify for grant support.
FAQ
Data from global brands shows that resale does not discourage new purchases. Instead, it serves as a powerful customer acquisition tool, allowing sustainability-conscious demographics to discover and try your brand at an accessible price point. Concurrently, brand loyalty among your existing customer base deepens, naturally driving repeat sales for your main retail line.
Implementing a circular program independently can be costly due to the labor-intensive operation required. Our model solves this by pooling resources. When you join us, you tap into shared logistics that lower your upfront investment and fast-track your ROI. As your return volume grows, your program scales efficiently, shifting take-back from a cost center to a revenue stream.
Yes, absolutely. Our programs are designed to complement, not replace, your current sustainability efforts, reporting frameworks, or supplier relationships. We can adapt to your established environmental targets, providing the data and reports your company needs to incorporate into your standard ESG disclosures or sustainability report.
As circularity is a collective shift, we collaborate with multiple brands. We ensure our network of partners are sustainability-minded and protect the business interests of every partner we work with. This includes maintaining non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) and rigorous operational boundaries to ensure that proprietary brand strategies and customer data remain strictly confidential.
Resale can kick off quickly once your customers start returning clothing, giving you access to insights into your actual secondary market from month one. While the program’s long-term growth ultimately depends on your ongoing return volume, you won’t be flying blind. Before onboarding, we run a volume projection and continuously optimise results. We only win when you do.
Sustainability projects involving the community in Singapore can be eligible for SG Eco Fund. We detail eligibility criteria and how fashion brands can participate in our dedicated Funding and Grant Guide. Head over to learn more and evaluate your brand’s eligibility.
Have another question?
Drop us a line and we will be glad to assist you!