Despite its Grenoble name, Au Gant Grenoblois trades from Rue Constantine in Lyon, continuing a fourth-generation glove business. Isotoner traces its stretch-glove design to Aris, which developed a nylon-spandex glove with leather trim in the early 1970s. Maison Fabre hand-cuts leather gloves in Millau, where Étienne Fabre founded the family workshop in 1924. Driving and fencing gloves feature in that maker's range, with lamb and peccary among its leather materials.
Au Gant Grenoblois carries Grenoble's glove-making name into its fourth generation, but the shop itself trades from Lyon today, at 9 Rue Constantine in the 1st arrondissement — worth noting plainly, since the name points to a different city than the storefront.
Best for A fourth-generation glove house carrying Grenoble's kid-leather tradition, now trading from Lyon.
Au Gant Grenoblois carries Grenoble's glove-making name into its fourth generation, but the shop itself trades from Lyon today, at 9 Rue Constantine in the 1st arrondissement — worth noting plainly, since the name points to a different city than the storefront. It was founded in 1927 by the Noturno family, part of the wave of gantiers who built Grenoble into what was, at its 19th-century peak, a world center for kid-leather gloves producing millions of pairs a year.
The current generation trained at the leather trades school in Romans-sur-Isère before learning the shop floor from the previous manager, and the house makes town, sport, and ceremonial gloves in leather, wool, and cashmere- or fleece-lined constructions, plus driving, cycling, and mountain gloves suited to Lyon's outdoor-adjacent customer base. It states it has supplied gloves for cinema and international clients, and offers free repairs and fit adjustments, including accommodations for customers with hand injuries — a detail that reads as genuine ongoing shop practice rather than marketing copy.
This is a live alternative to Grenoble's own Ganterie Lesdiguières, which closed for good in spring 2025 after its owner could no longer source kid leather fine enough for authentic Grenoble gloves — a closure confirmed directly and excluded from this list on those grounds. Au Gant Grenoblois is open and trading as of this writing, though recent French press (Lyon Capitale, 2026) reports the shop is currently up for sale and may itself close after nearly a century, with the owner declining to comment further — worth flagging as a freshness risk rather than presenting the shop as a settled, stable alternative.
The stretch glove began at the Aris Glove Company; in the early 1970s Aris created a nylon-spandex glove with leather trim and coined the name Isotoner from 'isometric' and 'toning.'
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Founded in Millau in 1924 by Étienne Fabre, Maison Fabre remains family-run into its fourth generation, hand-cutting lamb, peccary and sheepskin leather gloves. Its range spans driving, fencing, golf and ceremony gloves, all made in its Millau workshops.
Best for Millau-made driving, fencing, golf, ceremony, and leather gloves
Maison Fabre was founded in 1924 in Millau by Étienne Fabre, then 40 years old, whose interest in glovemaking traced back to 1909, when he served as a mounted gendarme and first encountered the trade. The house has stayed in the same family across four generations since, based in Millau workshops with an additional presence in Paris's Palais-Royal.
The company works in lamb, peccary and sheepskin leathers, lined in cashmere, fleece or silk, and produces a range built around specific uses rather than a single generic glove: driving gloves, fencing gloves, golf gloves, ceremony gloves and mittens each have their own cut. Alongside gloves, Maison Fabre also makes small leather goods, belts, bags and jackets, extending its leatherworking beyond hands alone.
Maison Fabre's own materials describe its approach as using natural, local and traceable materials and frame the house as carrying forward "French craftsmanship rooted in its territories".
Founded in Saint-Junien, France in 1893 as Rigaudy-Perrin, this glove house closed in the late 1970s and was relaunched by the Perrin family in the 2000s. Its signature Glove Clutch reinterprets its glove-making heritage as a leather handbag.
Best for Glove Clutch bags and Saint-Junien leather accessories
Perrin was founded in 1893 in Saint-Junien, a Limousin glovemaking town, as Rigaudy-Perrin, and by the 1920s it supplied leather gloves to Paris couture houses with boutiques operating internationally. The original business closed its doors in the late 1970s, and the brand lay dormant for roughly three decades before the Perrin family relaunched it, opening new boutiques in Beverly Hills and New York from 2009 and later in Paris, Hong Kong and Tokyo.
The relaunched house's best-known product is the Glove Clutch, a leather handbag shaped like a glove that the company itself describes as "an ironic nod" to its glove-making origins — a design choice that trades on Perrin's history rather than continuing its original product category as the primary business.
Saint-Junien, where Perrin was founded, is distinct from Millau, the town associated with fellow glovemakers Causse and Maison Fabre. Both are historic French glovemaking centres, but they are not the same place.
Family-run since 1923 in a Monument Historique-listed Avignon shopfront (trading since 1860), Chapellerie Mouret sources Panama hats directly from Ecuador and stocks parasols, umbrellas, canes and gloves alongside Borsalino and Stetson.
Best for Parasols, umbrellas, canes and gloves alongside Borsalino and Stetson
Chapellerie Mouret has traded from 20 rue des Marchands in central Avignon since 1860, and the Mouret family has run it since 1923. The interior - Louis XVI in style, with gilded detailing and wooden shutters closed each evening with an ornate key - is listed by France's Monuments Historiques, making the shop itself as much a heritage site as a retailer. Hats are the core of the business, carrying established houses including Borsalino, Stetson, Kangol and Bailey, and the current owner has traveled to Ecuador roughly a dozen times to source Panama hats directly from the artisans who weave them, rather than through an intermediary importer. Around the hats, the shop keeps a genuinely broad accessories counter: braces, walking sticks, bow ties, driving and ceremony gloves, mittens, mantillas, balaclavas, and - the category relevant here - parasols and umbrellas, sold as part of the same formal-dress and ceremony wardrobe rather than as a specialty in their own right. The shop has drawn coverage from French outlets including TF1, Le Figaro, Telerama, Geo and Elle, and counts actors Robin Renucci and Daniel Auteuil and former prime minister Lionel Jospin among past customers. It is, first and foremost, a hatter with an unusually complete accessories range - its parasols and umbrellas are real and in stock, but secondary to the Panama hats and heritage shopfront that define the address.
Maison Poujade was founded in Millau in 1949 by master glove maker André Poujade, working alongside his father-in-law François Calmels.
Best for A third-generation Millau family glove house making fine city gloves
Maison Poujade was founded in Millau in 1949 by master glove maker André Poujade, working alongside his father-in-law François Calmels. The house has stayed in family hands for three further generations: André's daughter Marie-Hélène opened a Poujade glove shop in Montpellier in 1973 and ran it for nearly forty years, and in 2000 her daughter Anne-Laure and son-in-law Christophe took over direction of the Millau house itself.
The stated goal since founding has been the manufacture and sale of high-end city gloves under the Poujade name, worked in leathers the house selects itself — lambskin, peccary, reversed lamb, deer, and ostrich among them. That materials list, carried across four generations of the same family, points to a house built around fine dress gloves specifically rather than leather accessories generally.
France Cuir's company record and a Millau craft-tourism roundup independently document the business's registration and Millau address. Alongside Causse and Agnelle, Poujade is one more of Millau's family glove houses still trading under its founder's name three-quarters of a century on.
J.M. Weston has made men's and women's shoes since Édouard Blanchard opened his manufacture in Limoges in 1891, and the brand still produces its footwear at that Limousin factory today. Alongside its shoes, the house makes leather goods, belts, scarves and gloves, sold through its own boutiques and website.
Best for Limoges-made shoes, the Model 180 loafer and house leather goods.
JM Weston was founded in 1891 in Limoges, France, by Édouard Blanchard, initially trading as E. Blanchard & Cie before later renaming first to The Ultra Shoes and eventually to J.M. Weston. The company has always been based in Limoges, a region with a long tanning and leatherworking tradition, and continues to operate a single factory there where all of its leather-soled shoes are made. In 1981, JM Weston acquired the Tannerie Bastin, a tannery founded in 1806 that uses traditional vegetable-tanning methods; since then it has been the exclusive supplier of sole leather for JM Weston's shoes, making JM Weston the only shoemaker to own its own sole-leather tannery outright. Each pair of shoes reportedly spends around eight weeks moving through roughly 200 separate manufacturing steps in the Limoges workshops, following traditional bespoke shoemaking methods. The house's best-known model is the 180, a penny loafer first introduced in the 1940s-50s era that became closely associated with the wardrobe of the French professional and political establishment, sometimes nicknamed the shoe of French power for its adoption by civil servants, bankers and politicians. JM Weston remains part of the Groupe EPI portfolio of French luxury houses.
L'Atelier du Gantier opened in Millau in 1989, one of the last workshops built specifically to keep the town's leather-glove trade accessible rather than reserve it for couture houses alone.
Best for Hand-cut leather gloves made start to finish in a working
L'Atelier du Gantier opened in Millau in 1989, one of the last workshops built specifically to keep the town's leather-glove trade accessible rather than reserve it for couture houses alone. Millau's glove history runs to the Middle Ages, when tanners and furriers built the industry on sheepskins supplied by the Roquefort cheese trade next door; this atelier positions itself as a direct continuation of that local chain, working first-quality Millau skins rather than imported stock.
Production stays in-house at 20 Rue Droite: leather is prepared through a wet stage, then cut, placed, and sewn with what the workshop describes as an English machine stitch, with each pair checked at the sample stage before finishing. The site states gloves are made "from A to Z in our workshop," and the range covers men's, women's, and children's leather gloves alongside belts and small accessories, with made-to-measure options for customers who want a specific fit.
It is a working atelier rather than a boutique presenting an outside collection: the same building handles cutting, sewing, and sale. For a category built on Millau's four already-covered houses, L'Atelier du Gantier adds a smaller, single-site counterpoint — same regional craft, same materials, a different scale of operation.
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