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HOME TEXTILES CONSULTING & PRODUCT STRATEGY

ABOUT AVALON

A boutique consulting firm specializing in Home Textiles strategy, design, and product development.

Avalon supports companies aiming to strengthen their product vision, optimize collections, and accelerate business growth in the bedding and home textiles industry.
Our approach combines creative excellence with commercial intelligence to achieve performance-driven results.

We build long-term relationships based on trust, clarity, and respect.

TOP SERVICES

1. STRATEGIC CONSULTING FOR HOME TEXTILES

A high-level advisory service designed for brands seeking clarity, differentiation and commercial results.

Includes:

  • Category & brand diagnosis

  • Product line architecture

  • Consumer insights & sales behaviour analysis

  • Bestseller optimisation & collection efficiency

  • Strategic guidance for seasonal planning

  • Pricing and competitive analysis

  • Margin optimisation recommendations

2. BED LINEN & HOME TEXTILES PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Includes

  • Creative direction & design guidelines

  • Textile design (prints, solids, textures)

  • Colour palette definition

  • Technical specifications 

  • Material selection & fabric engineering

  • Prototype review & quality optimization

  • Pre-production approvals

Full development cycle for new or existing collections.

3.GLOBAL SOURCING & SUPPLY CHAIN GUIDANCE

Includes

  • Supplier assessment & matchmaking

  • Factory capability evaluations

  • Negotiation support

  • Development follow-up

  • Production risk assessment

  • Quality and compliance recommendations

For brands developing products abroad or wanting to enter Asia or Latin America sourcing markets.

ABOUT FOUNDER

Carla Avallone Basso

Founder & Lead Consultant

I am a Senior Textile Designer and Product Manager with two decades of end-to-end experience in the home textiles category—specialised in bed linen development, creative direction, sourcing and global manufacturing.

My work combines creativity with a strong commercial instinct: I analyse buyers, sales behaviour, margin drivers, production constraints and market positioning to create product lines that perform. I operate with a strategic, holistic approach: brand identity, aesthetics, pricing, storytelling, technical feasibility and profitability must all align.

My experience across Argentina, China, india, Pakistan and Brazil enables me to guide companies expanding into international supply chains or elevating their design, collections and business models.

Avalon exists to bring clarity, strategy and high-level product development to brands ready to grow.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

A data-driven perspective on two decades of expertise

  • 19+ years leading design, development & sourcing in the home textiles industry

  • 80+ complete collections designed (bed linen & home textiles)

  • +65% average growth across bestselling lines under my strategic redesign

  • +40% improvement in development efficiency for clients adopting my workflow

  • 40+ supplier partnerships managed across China, India, Pakistan & Brazil

  • $30M+ accumulated annual turnover influenced through product strategy decisions

  • 20+ years directing and training multidisciplinary design and product teams

WORKING METHOD

– THE AVALON APPROACH

A strategic and creative method to build commercially successful home textile collections.

1. Discovery & Diagnosis
Brand, consumer, pricing, capabilities, benchmarks.

2. Strategy Definition
Value proposition, positioning, product pillars, aesthetic direction.

3. Product Development
Design, materials, specs, prototypes & technical adjustments.

4. Validation
Sales projections, margin review, competitive verification.

5. Execution
Sourcing, approvals, production handover, follow-up.

6. Growth Optimization
Seasonal improvements, line evolution, bestseller strategy.

SELECTED WORK