Ponda x Berghaus: Industry Collaboration for a regenerative future
For regenerative materials to become industry standard, collaboration is essential. The future of biomaterials depends on industry-wide support, investment, and integration into real world products. Working with Berghaus, this project is a step towards demonstrating how fashion can move beyond extractive materials and adopt solutions that actively restore ecosystems. This is not about small changes. It is about reshaping the way textiles are made. A model that works with nature, not against it.
The Concept Piece
In collaboration with UK outdoor-wear brand Berghaus, the Concept Piece demonstrates how regenerative materials can be integrated into performance outerwear without compromising function. The jacket is insulated with BioPuff® and BioPuff® Wadding, offering a versatile approach to warmth. Designed with removable components, it allows the wearer to adjust insulation levels based on activity and climate. The modular system also enables a choice between loose fill or wadding, giving flexibility to the jacket’s appearance and functionality.
The jacket contains BioPuff that was sourced and processed entirely in Europe. By incorporating regenerative biomaterials at this scale, the Concept Piece showcases how functional, adaptable, and responsible outerwear can be made.
Thermal Balancing
Our insulation placement is strategically designed using female thermal imaging. The insulation covers the core to retain warmth while incorporating a ventilated, non-insulated lower back for cooling.
Multifunctionality
This garment adapts to changing weather conditions with removable insulation. It can function as a windproof layer or an insulating jacket, with options for a mid-weight wadded insert or a loose-fill high-insulation insert.
Female-First Design
Engineered with a female-first approach, this garment is tailored for the female form and optimal functionality. A single shoulder seam allows overlapping panels to move freely, enhancing comfort and mobility.
Wetlands: a super-carbon store
Our largest terrestrial carbon store is held in wetlands - specifically in a type of soil called peat which builds up over hundreds of years. Over millennia, this has led to wetlands holding twice as much carbon as all the trees in the world, combined - 600 billion tonnes of carbon!
Unfortunately, hundreds of millions of wetlands have been drained around the world, releasing nearly 2 gigatonnes of CO₂ every year — more emissions than the entire fashion industry. This is primarily for farming, as the peaty soils can produce highly productive land. However, by draining the water from a wetland, you expose the carbon-rich land to the atmosphere, enabling the soils to quite literally dissolve away.
Our only hope to stop these emissions is to re-wet the wetlands and lock the carbon back into the ground - but what about the farmers who are relying on these
Unfortunately, hundreds of millions of wetlands have been drained around the world, releasing nearly 2 gigatonnes of CO₂ every year — more emissions than the entire fashion industry. This is primarily for farming, as the peaty soils can produce highly productive land. However, by draining the water from a wetland, you expose the carbon-rich land to the atmosphere, enabling the soils to quite literally dissolve away.
Our only hope to stop these emissions is to re-wet the wetlands and lock the carbon back into the ground - but what about the farmers who are relying on these
Life Cycle Impact
BioPuff® provides a measurable reduction in environmental impact, as shown by its Life Cycle Assessment (LCA):
In addition, our wetland-regenerating supply chain creates further benefits by increasing biodiversity, cleaning water and building climate resilience into farms.
Fashion Enter
The garment was made at Fashion-Enter Ltd (FEL) which in London FEL is an award-winning social enterprise. FEL is a centre of ethical garment manufacturing with a leading status in the Fast Forward audit. FEL opened it's Fashion Technology Academy in 2015 with support from GLA and Haringey Council. It was the first academy in the country that is supported by Government to im- prove technical garment manufacture.
- 3.4 kg CO₂ eq per kg of BioPuff®, which is 88% lower than goose down and 19% lower than polyester fibre.
- 0.4 m³ water use per kg, utilising naturally occurring wetland crops rather than irrigation.
- Full traceability, from wetland to textile.
In addition, our wetland-regenerating supply chain creates further benefits by increasing biodiversity, cleaning water and building climate resilience into farms.
Fashion Enter
The garment was made at Fashion-Enter Ltd (FEL) which in London FEL is an award-winning social enterprise. FEL is a centre of ethical garment manufacturing with a leading status in the Fast Forward audit. FEL opened it's Fashion Technology Academy in 2015 with support from GLA and Haringey Council. It was the first academy in the country that is supported by Government to im- prove technical garment manufacture.