80 stores · curated ORBIS register
Paris tailoring speaks two languages at once, the office in one ear and the ceremony in the other. Charvet has anchored Place Vendôme shirtmaking since the house was founded in 1838. Francesco Smalto cuts couture tailoring for presidents from a house founded in 1962. Rue de la Paix holds Camps de Luca for the Parisian bespoke commission, where the cut stays made in France. Shirtmakers and shoemakers share the plate with a few grand maisons, so decide whether your commission starts at the shirt or the suit. Trouser break is set against real shoes; yours belong at the fitting.
Marseille / Online
La Nouvelle makes soft lingerie, swimwear and bodysuits with bralettes at the centre of the range. Colour and comfortable construction matter more than rigid shaping, making pieces suitable for everyday layering.
Best for Marseille lingerie and swim label: bralettes, swimwear, and bodysuits
Nice / Carré d'Or / Online
Nice's Carré d'Or multi-brand boutique with its own Riviera-lifestyle linen line inspired by the colors of the old town.
Best for Riviera-chic multi-brand fashion and linen tailoring.
Paris / Online
17h10 specialises in women’s suits, blazers, trousers and waistcoats for professional dressing. Coordinated colours and separates make it practical to build a tailored wardrobe without buying only complete suits.
Best for Paris tailoring — suits, blazers, trousers, and waistcoats for confident professional dressing
Paris / Online
The name is an acronym — All Wonderful Adventures Kindle Enthusiasm — and the label is what happened when one of fashion's best-trained eyes moved from styling pages to cutting cloth.
Best for Architectural pleats and sculptural cocktail tailoring.
<p>The name is an acronym — All Wonderful Adventures Kindle Enthusiasm — and the label is what happened when one of fashion's best-trained eyes moved from styling pages to cutting cloth. Natalia Alaverdian, formerly fashion director of Harper's Bazaar Russia, founded A.W.A.K.E. Mode in London in November 2012 after a career spent composing other designers' clothes into images. She knew exactly what a photograph wanted; she started building it directly.</p><p>The house signature is the familiar garment turned one notch past familiar: shirting with displaced collars, tailoring with origami folds, dresses whose pleats behave like architecture. Collections lean on precise cross-references — Japanese art and cinema above all — and the pieces are produced deliberately in small runs, closer to art objects with armholes than to seasonal merchandise.</p><p>A.W.A.K.E. Mode now shows on the Paris calendar, where its wit reads clearly against the city's polish: sculptural but wearable, conceptual but sized for daily life. It is a stylist's revenge on minimalism — proof that clothes can carry a narrative and still get you through a Tuesday.</p>
Paris / Online
Paris tailoring and statement pieces under Alexis Mabille's name, with bags, shoes and accessories alongside.
Best for Paris tailoring and statement pieces, with bags, shoes and accessories.
Paris / Online
Made-to-measure tailoring house at 46 rue de Provence in Paris's 9th arrondissement, run by tailor-owner Romain Biette; suits, shirts, coats and trousers from a fabric library of over 8,000 Italian and English cloths.
Best for Classic tailoring and menswear accessories with a Parisian eye
Ardentes Clipei is a made-to-measure tailoring house located at 46 rue de Provence in Paris's 9th arrondissement, run by its owner Romain Biette, a trained tailor. The name is Latin for 'shining shield' or 'shining armour,' reflecting the house's framing of tailored clothing as both protection and self-expression. Ardentes Clipei produces overcoats, shirts, trousers, jackets and suits to individual measurement, drawing on a stated blend of French, Italian and British tailoring conventions. Beyond made-to-measure garments, the shop carries a curated range of menswear accessories - scarves, ties, bow ties, knitwear, suspenders and sunglasses - and maintains a fabric library exceeding 8,000 references drawn from established Italian and English cloth makers and drapers.
Paris / Online
Artling offers understated menswear through shirts, easy jackets, trousers and knitwear. Quiet fabrics and restrained proportion make the pieces useful as tailoring basics rather than conspicuous fashion statements.
Best for French dress shirts, easy jackets, and quietly elegant tailoring basics
Paris / Online
Bespoke tailoring atelier in Paris's 7th arrondissement since 2010, stocking over 4,000 English and Italian fabrics and outfitting more than 200 weddings a year.
Best for Custom shirts and tailored menswear made the Paris atelier way
Atelier Mesure has operated in Paris since 2010 ('Vêtements sur-mesure à Paris depuis 2010'), from an address at 44 Boulevard de la Tour-Maubourg in the 7th arrondissement. The house specializes in made-to-measure suits, shirts and accessories, and singles out bridal suiting as a core business — it reports handling more than 200 weddings a year.
The atelier follows a five-step process: an initial consultation on style, fabric and construction, roughly twenty individual measurements, three to five weeks of construction, and a final fitting with alterations included. It stocks more than 4,000 fabrics sourced from English and Italian mills, and assigns each client a single master tailor as point of contact through the process.
No individual founder is named on the site; the business presents itself as a atelier-model operation built around in-house master tailors rather than a single-name designer. For a shopping-atlas listing, the distinguishing facts are the volume of wedding tailoring, the scale of the fabric library, and the defined measurement-to-fitting workflow — specifics that separate it from a generic 'custom shirts' description.
Paris / Online
Atelier NA offers made-to-measure shirts, suits, jackets and chinos through appointments and body measurements. Stored specifications support consistent repeat orders, making the service useful for business wardrobe building.
Best for Made-to-measure shirts, suits, jackets, and chinos for building a business wardrobe
Paris, France
Ba&sh offers dresses, tailoring, knitwear and accessories across its women's collections.
Best for Feminine French
Paris, France
Balzac Paris sells women’s clothing, shoes and accessories through frequent capsule releases and a responsible-material narrative. Product-level fabric information is important because fibre choices vary across dresses, tailoring and knitwear.
Best for Sustainable fashion
Paris / Online
Barbara Bui combines leather jackets, sharp tailoring, dresses and boots with a polished rock influence. The collection suits shoppers seeking strong wardrobe pieces without moving into costume-like stagewear.
Best for Leather jackets, sharp tailoring, and rock-polished dresses and boots
Paris / Online
Paris menswear shop and e-commerce destination for quiet-luxury tailoring, shirts, shoes, knitwear, and hard-to-find classic brands.
Best for Quiet-luxury tailoring and hard-to-find classic menswear brands from Paris
Paris / Online
Blandin & Delloye offers made-to-measure suits, shirts, jackets and wedding tailoring through appointment-led service. Multiple fittings and fabric selection are the core value, making advance booking more relevant than browsing stock.
Best for Made-to-measure suits and wedding tailoring for formal menswear
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Bond Eye focuses on Australian swimwear in signature crinkle fabric, one-size-flattering suits in sorbet brights.
Best for Crinkle-fabric Australian swimwear in one-size-flattering, sorbet-bright cuts
Paris / Online
Botter combines sharp tailoring, knitwear and marine references with a Caribbean perspective. Colour and unconventional styling drive the collections, while construction keeps the pieces grounded beyond runway presentation.
Best for Caribbean-inspired tailoring, marine references, and sharp suits with runway color
Paris / Online
Cadot interprets utility clothing through work jackets, trousers, shirts, knitwear and leather accessories. Precise fabrics and restrained colours make the range suitable for everyday menswear rather than costume-like workwear reproduction.
Best for Work jackets, trousers, and refined utility menswear
Paris / Online
Parisian tailoring house — three generations of bespoke excellence on Rue de la Paix. Bespoke shirt program includes one-piece collar on request.
Best for Parisian bespoke excellence on Rue de la Paix
Paris / Online
Parisian womenswear house founded in 1963 by Raphaël Levy and Joseph Bigio, originally specializing in sweaters; expanded into full ready-to-wear in 1980, opened its own boutiques and listed on the Bourse in 1984 as Caroll International.
Best for Polished workwear staples and feminine tailoring
Caroll was founded in Paris in 1963 by Raphaël Levy and Joseph Bigio, starting out as a specialist in women's sweaters aimed at a free-spirited, modern customer. The brand broadened into a full ready-to-wear collection in 1980, and by 1984 had opened its own boutiques and listed on the Paris stock exchange under the name Caroll International. In 1988 the company came under the ownership of Groupe André (later part of Vivarte), and in 1994 it consolidated its identity under the 'Caroll Paris' label. Through the 1980s and beyond, Caroll built a strong position in French department stores and became a fixture of mainstream Parisian ready-to-wear, later expanding internationally through boutiques, franchise partners and department-store concessions. The brand's collections today span dresses, trousers, blouses, jackets, coats and accessories, with a positioning the company describes as feminine, modern, timeless and intergenerational — retaining the polished, tailored identity it built over six decades as a French high-street staple.
Paris
Nino Cerruti’s Paris-Biella axis — the mill-owner-couturier who trained Armani and dressed Bond.
Best for Bond suits, luxury
The Cerruti name predates the fashion house by nearly a century: three Cerruti brothers founded a wool mill, Lanificio Fratelli Cerruti, in Biella in 1881, and it was that mill's name the couture house adopted when Nino Cerruti later built a ready-to-wear label around it. Nino inherited control of the family business at twenty, after his father's death forced him to abandon his philosophy studies; his first men's collection, shown under the Hitman name in 1957, was received as a genuine break from the era's stiffer tailoring conventions. A young Giorgio Armani worked inside that world before starting his own house, designing for Cerruti's Hitman line between 1964 and 1970 — formative years frequently credited with shaping the softer, less structured silhouette Armani later made his signature. Nino Cerruti launched the Cerruti 1881 menswear line proper in 1967, the same year he opened his first Paris boutique on Place de la Madeleine, with a womenswear collection following a year later. The mill in Biella and the Paris fashion house therefore represent two ends of one continuous operation — textile manufacturing and couture — bound together under a single family name for most of the twentieth century, even as the retail side of the business has since passed through multiple owners and restructurings.
Paris / 28 Place Vendôme
Charvet is a Paris shirtmaker founded in 1838 and long associated with Place Vendôme, specializing in bespoke and ready-to-wear shirts, ties and accessories. Chanel acquired the house in July 2026, adding a major ownership change to an otherwise unusually continuous tailoring history.
Best for The bespoke shirt pilgrimage of a lifetime.
Charvet has made shirts since 1838 and is generally recognized as the world's oldest French shirtmaker — founded by Christofle Charvet, whose father had charge of Napoleon's wardrobe, and installed for over a century at 28 Place Vendôme, where it remains the square's last shirtmaker. The client book is its own history: Proust wrote about the house, Churchill and Kennedy wore its collars, and the bespoke floors upstairs still cut shirts to individual paper patterns from an inventory of thousands of fabrics, including the one-piece collar for which connoisseurs make the trip. The shirts are made in Saint-Gaultier, France. In July 2026 the house was acquired by Chanel, placing it within a group committed to preserving métiers. This is not e-commerce territory: the point is the appointment, the fabric wall, and a shirt cut for no one else.
Book the bespoke appointment ahead and allow time at the fabric wall — choosing among the thousands of shirtings is the visit's actual luxury.
Paris / France
Bespoke tailoring house founded in Rome in 1880 by Giuseppe Cifonelli and established in Paris in 1926; the signature cran Cifonelli shoulder was developed by his son Arturo. Now a fourth-generation, Paris-based maison.
Best for Legendary bespoke shoulders.
Cifonelli is a bespoke tailoring house founded in Rome in 1880 by Giuseppe Cifonelli. His son, Arturo Cifonelli, trained in cutting at London's Minister's Cutting Academy before establishing the house's first Paris workshop in 1926, developing what became its signature 'cran Cifonelli' shoulder - a structured cut blending British precision, Italian line and French finishing. The house remains family-run through a fourth generation, cousins Massimo and Lorenzo Cifonelli, who have kept it independent of the luxury-conglomerate consolidation that absorbed many other historic tailoring names. A bespoke Cifonelli suit takes more than 80 hours of hand work. The house's Paris operations are centered on rue Marbeuf in the 8th arrondissement.
Paris / France / Online
Parisian ready-to-wear house founded 1984 by designer Claudie Pierlot, known for precise, tailored 'Parisienne' silhouettes. Now owned by SMCP (also home to Sandro and Maje) after a 2009 acquisition, with about 250 points of sale worldwide.
Best for Parisian dresses, cropped jackets and polished everyday tailoring
Claudie Pierlot was born in 1947 in Troyes, a town long tied to French textile manufacturing, and founded her eponymous womenswear label in Paris in 1984. Her design signature was precise, tailored clothing - structured jackets, cropped trousers, fitted dresses - built around an idea of understated Parisian style rather than directional fashion-week statements, aimed at a customer who wanted consistency season to season. The house built a loyal, largely French following through the late 1980s, 1990s and 2000s on that basis. Pierlot died at the age of 61, having already sold her company to the French group SMCP in 2009; creative direction afterward passed to Evelyne Chetrite and Judith Milgrom, the sisters who also run the Sandro label within the same group. SMCP formally united Sandro, Maje and Claudie Pierlot as a single fashion group in 2010, later added the menswear house Fursac, and listed the combined group on the Paris stock exchange in 2017. Today Claudie Pierlot operates through roughly 250 points of sale and employs close to 700 people across its stores and wholesale accounts in Europe, while its design studio and collections remain kept distinct from its SMCP sister brands.
Paris / Online
Coltesse approaches menswear through clean overshirts, work jackets, trousers and knitwear with restrained proportions. The collection bridges casual clothing and light tailoring, so pieces can move between office and weekend use.
Best for Overshirts, work jackets, and modern casual tailoring from this French menswear label
Paris / Online
Cotton Society offers made-to-measure shirts and tailoring, with a Paris boutique for discussing fabric and fit. Its range extends to jackets and trousers, available through appointments in the boutique or at trunk shows. A collaboration with Parisian Gentleman concerns blazer designs, rather than establishing one manufacturing origin for the whole collection.
Best for Made-to-measure shirts and tailoring in Paris
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This Milanese label focuses on drawstring tailoring in seasonal wools and cottons.
Best for Drawstring-tailored trousers in seasonal wools and cottons from Milan
Cruna was founded in Vicenza in 2013 by Alessandro Fasolo and Tommaso Pinotti, who built the label around a single question: whether trousers could be reimagined as a genuinely essential garment, merging tailoring's formal codes with everyday wearability rather than treating trousers as secondary to a jacket. Design and production stay in Italy through a short, in-house-controlled supply chain — fabric selection, prototyping, washing and finishing are handled directly rather than outsourced, allowing continuous refinement of fit and fabric. Every finished garment carries a signature embroidery mark of authenticity, part of a stated philosophy of 'choose less, and choose better' — pieces built to be worn for years rather than seasons. The house is headquartered on Via Vecchia Ferriera in Vicenza, with a second office in Milan, and operates its own retail beyond wholesale: a company store in Vicenza, a flagship built in Como that opened in December 2023, and a seasonal boutique in San Pantaleo, Sardinia. In 2023 Cruna extended beyond its founding menswear trouser line into a Women's collection, applying the same drawstring-waist tailoring logic to new proportions and fabrics. The company remains privately held and comparatively small — LinkedIn lists 11 to 50 employees — consistent with its own emphasis on craftsmanship over scale.
Paris, France
Parisian menswear house founded 1973, rebranded simply Fursac under the SMCP group — sharp French tailoring, suits and smart-casual at accessible-luxury prices.
Best for Sharp Parisian tailoring without couture prices.
Paris
French linens of hotel-suite polish — jacquard towels and percale from a 1774 lineage. Stocked at Galeries Lafayette in Paris.
Best for Jacquard towels and percale linens with hotel-suite polish, dating to 1774
Paris / Online
Paris womenswear label founded in 2001 by Carole Petit, who drew on her father's tailoring background for a bohemian, worldly aesthetic; known for relaxed tailoring in linen, silk and cotton meant to outlast fast seasonal turnover.
Best for Relaxed-tailored blazers, trousers, and prints for easy chic
Diega was founded in Paris in 2001 by Carole Petit, who grew up around her father's tailoring business and drew on that craft background for her own label. The brand's collections combine that garment-making heritage with a bohemian, worldly sensibility, working largely in linen, silk and cotton. Diega describes its approach as building relaxed, menswear-influenced pieces meant to last rather than following fast seasonal turnover, and its designs pull on folkloric patterns and textures from a range of traditions.
Paris / Online
Paris fashion label founded by Florentin Glémarec and Kévin Nompeix, who met in 2018; named after painter Egon Schiele. Known for gender-fluid, punk-inflected tailoring shown at Paris Fashion Week, and organized as a wider 'laboratory' spanning fashion, music and visual art.
Best for Flared, genderfluid tailoring with runway theatre energy
Egonlab was founded by Florentin Glémarec and Kévin Nompeix, who met in Paris in 2018 while Nompeix was working as a model agent and helped book Glémarec's early runway presentations. Glémarec had entered fashion as a teenage model before running a short-lived menswear label, Icosae, with his brother; Nompeix, from Bordeaux, continued working in modeling in part to help keep Egonlab self-financed in its early years. The label takes its name from Egon Schiele, the early-20th-century Viennese Expressionist painter, a reference the founders use to signal the brand's interest in blending masculine and feminine elements, echoing the ambiguity in Schiele's own figures. Rather than presenting itself purely as a clothing line, Egonlab is structured as a broader creative project spanning three branches — fashion, music, and visual arts — that the founders describe as a laboratory rather than a conventional maison. Its collections, shown during Paris Fashion Week, draw on nineteenth-century tailoring silhouettes filtered through punk and queer references, built around dark, romantic, genderfluid designs. The label's early recognition included finalist status for the Woolmark Prize and the Pierre Bergé ANDAM award, along with attention tied to its LVMH Prize candidacy, and it has also worked on collaborations, including with ASICS, and explored digital projects such as NFTs as part of its wider multidisciplinary approach.
Paris / Online
Paris/Brooklyn creative collective founded in 2012 by childhood friends Jeremie Egry and Aurelien Arbet (with Jose Lamali), combining a menswear label with book publishing and a creative agency.
Best for Art-book publishing and modern tailoring from this Paris-NY collective
Etudes Studio was established in 2012 by Jeremie Egry and Aurelien Arbet, who met as teenagers near Grenoble through a shared interest in graffiti and later reconnected on Paris's graffiti scene in the late 1990s. Jose Lamali joined as a third founding member, and the trio built the operation across two cities from the outset: Paris and New York (specifically Brooklyn). Rather than functioning only as a clothing brand, Etudes operates as a self-described collective spanning three activities: a menswear line, a publishing arm producing its own books, and a creative agency taking on outside client work. The studio has collaborated with musicians, visual artists and typographers as part of that broader practice.
Paris / Online
Paris made-to-measure tailoring house founded 2009 by two friends, Geraud and Louis, at 32 rue Chevert in the 7th arrondissement. Suits are cut over two fitting appointments using cloth from mills including Loro Piana and Holland and Sherry.
Best for Custom suits, shirts, and jackets from a Paris tailor.
Faubourg Saint Sulpice is a Paris made-to-measure tailoring house founded in 2009 by two friends, Geraud and Louis, with the aim of making custom tailoring less intimidating than traditional bespoke houses. Its main showroom is at 32 rue Chevert in the 7th arrondissement, with a second showroom in Clermont-Ferrand. The process runs over two appointments: a first meeting to take measurements and discuss fabric and style, and a second fitting to finalize the finished garment. Suits are cut using cloth from established European mills, including Loro Piana, Vitale Barberis Canonico and Holland and Sherry.
Paris / Online
Paris couture tailoring house founded in 1962 by Francesco Smalto, born in Reggio Calabria in 1927. Known for the suspender shirt, the white tuxedo and a distinctive upward-angled 'fish mouth' lapel; clients included Francois Mitterrand and King Hassan II of Morocco.
Best for Couture tailoring for presidents, from a Paris house founded in 1962.
Francesco Smalto was born in Reggio Calabria in 1927 and began tailoring in his hometown, reportedly completing his first garment at age 14. He later worked in Paris under Camps de Luca before founding his own house in February 1962, initially on Rue de la Boetie, selling exclusively made-to-measure suits. His business expanded in 1970 with a new address on Rue Francois 1er, coinciding with a clientele increasingly drawn from film and entertainment circles. Smalto is credited with several signature innovations, including the suspender shirt, the white tuxedo, and the house's distinctive 'fish mouth' lapel - a narrower notch that angles upward. His client list extended into politics, notably French president Francois Mitterrand and King Hassan II of Morocco. Smalto died in 2015 at 87; the house continues under new creative leadership.
Paris / Online
Frédéric Costa evolved from the Howard’s menswear business, offering shirts, ties and tailoring-focused wardrobe pieces. The collection suits shoppers seeking sartorial accessories and understated formal clothing rather than full bespoke service.
Best for Shirts, ties, and tailoring-focused menswear evolved from the Howard's label.
Paris / Online
Gauchere focuses on Marie-Christine Statz’s Paris label, precise, off-kilter tailoring in a restrained palette.
Best for Marie-Christine Statz's precise, off-kilter Paris tailoring in a restrained palette.
Paris / Online
Hubert’s aristocratic Parisian maison — the Audrey Hepburn lineage, 4G hardware and couture polish, now under Sarah Burton. The Mall at Leccio Reggello, outside Florence, holds its past-season ready-to-wear.
Best for Refined French tailoring and the Antigona line.
Hubert de Givenchy was 25 and aristocratically tall when he opened his house in 1952, and within a year had met the client who became his muse and the muse who became his signature: Audrey Hepburn. He dressed her in Sabrina, Funny Face and Breakfast at Tiffany's — the little black dress at Tiffany's window is arguably the most famous dress in cinema — and their friendship lasted until her death.
The house codified a particular Parisian register: aristocratic restraint, clean architecture, the Bettina blouse, couture polish without noise. After Hubert's 1995 retirement the succession read like a history of modern fashion — Galliano, McQueen, Riccardo Tisci's gothic decade, Clare Waight Keller's royal wedding dress for Meghan Markle.
Sarah Burton, who built Alexander McQueen into tailoring's conscience, took the reins in 2024 — a designer of exactly Hubert's discipline handed the 4G hardware, the Antigona, and the Hepburn lineage. The house's wager remains unchanged since 1952: elegance as a form of kindness.
Paris / Multiple
Hast is a menswear brand offering formal and casual shirts alongside tailoring and more relaxed everyday clothing. Established in 2012, it describes a wardrobe built from natural or recycled materials, with production divided among specialist workshops. Its shirts are made in Lithuania, while other garments come from different locations rather than one shared manufacturing origin.
Best for Formal and casual shirts with clearly described workshop origins
Hast's collection places formal and casual shirts alongside a broader wardrobe that extends from trousers to knitwear and outerwear. The brand dates its beginnings to 2012 and describes using natural or recycled materials across its clothing. Its craftsmanship page identifies workshops by product type, making manufacturing origin more specific than the brand's Paris identity.
Shirts are made by a Lithuanian workshop specialising in woven fabrics, while a Portuguese partner produces chinos and jeans. Other Portuguese workshops handle knitwear or jersey garments, including polo shirts and T-shirts. Ties come from an Italian workshop, and formal belts are made by hand in Spain. These are separate production relationships rather than a claim that everything is made in France.
Work jackets provide another distinction: their manufacturer is a French family business with a workshop in Tunisia. Shoppers comparing pieces can therefore use the product category to understand which workshop account applies. The collection spans tailored clothing and less formal styles, so a shirt purchase need not mean choosing a complete suit. Hast's boutique directory provides the relevant shop locations separately from this account of how its clothes are made.
Paris / 2nd
Paris menswear house for 1970s-leaning tailoring, sharp shirts, wide-lapel jackets, ties, and cinematic suits.
Best for 1970s-leaning tailoring, wide-lapel jackets, and cinematic suits
Paris
Janine Robin has handcrafted swimwear in France since 1948, now run by the founder's great-granddaughter. Its suits are cut and sewn at the brand's own atelier near Bassin d'Arcachon.
Best for French swimwear handmade at a Bassin d’Arcachon atelier
Janine Robin has stayed a family business through four generations. Andrée Tiba opened a small Paris boutique in 1948, selling swimwear she designed and made herself in the basement below the shop. Her son later joined the business, and in 1963 the pair partnered with corsetmaker Le Furet, moving production to Gironde, in southwest France.
The label has since passed down the family line to Andrée's great-granddaughter, Laura, who now oversees the collections. In 2012 the company launched a second line, Laura By Janine Robin, built around softer, second-skin fabrics, and in 2016 the maison relocated its studio to the Bassin d'Arcachon, closer to the ocean that shapes its collections.
Every swimsuit is still cut and sewn by hand at the brand's own atelier, using fabric sourced exclusively in Europe — no step is outsourced. The company says its workers are trained to a set quality charter, with several stages of construction done manually to guarantee fit. Beyond its own 13 boutiques in France, Janine Robin sells through roughly a hundred independent shops and department-store counters, including Le Printemps in France, Inno in Belgium, and Coin in Italy.
Paris / Online
Lafaurie focuses on Parisian menswear of quiet French elegance, relaxed tailoring made between France and Portugal.
Best for Relaxed Parisian menswear tailored between France and Portugal
Paris
Parisian nightwear elegance — piped pyjamas and robes of hotel-suite refinement. Stocked at Galeries Lafayette in Paris.
Best for Piped pyjamas and robes with hotel-suite refinement
Paris / Online
Paris menswear label (LGN) founded 2017 by designer Louis-Gabriel Nouchi, a La Cambre graduate who worked at Vogue Paris and under Raf Simons before starting his own house. Shows on the official Paris Fashion Week calendar with literature-inspired, gender-fluid tailoring blending sportswear and grunge influences.
Best for Sensual, novel-inspired Paris menswear tailoring
Louis-Gabriel Nouchi studied medicine and law before switching to fashion, training at the La Cambre school of visual arts in Brussels and working early in his career for Vogue Paris and designer Raf Simons. His own label, LGN Louis Gabriel Nouchi, launched in Paris in 2017. He had already drawn attention in 2014 with a nomination at the Hyeres fashion festival, winning the Camper and Palais de Tokyo prizes. LGN's collections intersect classic tailoring, sportswear, and counter-culture references, each season taking a literary work as its starting point, and the label shows on the official Paris Fashion Week calendar. Nouchi has produced capsule collaborations with Galeries Lafayette, La Redoute and Paris Saint-Germain.
Paris / Online
Paris made-to-measure suiting with accessibility — custom tailoring at startup-generation pricing since 2009.
Best for Made-to-measure Paris suiting at startup-friendly prices
Louis Purple, founded in 2009, specializes in made-to-measure menswear with boutiques in Caen, Metz, and Paris. The flagship Paris shop is located at 6 Boulevard Malesherbes in the Madeleine district. Their signature suits feature half-canvas construction for natural drape and lasting structure, available with over 800 fabric options and extensive customization. Delivery typically takes 3 to 4 weeks. The brand belongs to a large manufacturing group producing 1 million suits annually, giving Louis Purple deep expertise in sleeved pieces originating from its half-measure heritage. They serve customers of all body types with made-to-measure options including everyday wear and wedding suits.
Paris / Online
Louise Damas makes gold-plated rings, necklaces, earrings and bracelets with literary and feminine references. The range is easy to layer, while giftable price points and compact packaging suit personal presents.
Best for Gold-plated rings, necklaces, and earrings
Paris / Online
Paris label founded in 2017 by designer Ludovic de Saint Sernin, known for body-conscious tailoring, eyelet briefs and a gender-fluid, sensuality-driven aesthetic; a finalist for the 2018 LVMH Prize, as listed by the prize organizers and winner of the ANDAM Prize.
Best for Eyelet-brief sensual minimalist fashion
Ludovic de Saint Sernin was born in Brussels and grew up on the Ivory Coast before moving to Paris at age seven. He studied womenswear at École Duperré, then interned at Dior and Saint Laurent and worked at Balmain before launching his eponymous label in 2017. The brand is built around a philosophy the designer calls 'l'amour au masculin' — love in the masculine — approaching design without fixed gender categories and drawing on a 1990s supermodel-era sensuality applied to menswear codes. Signature pieces include body-conscious tailoring and the eyelet brief, and the label's runway shows and campaigns have positioned it as a visible part of fashion's New Queer wave. Its designs have been worn publicly by figures including musician Steve Lacy, Solange, and photographer Petra Collins. The house has been recognized within the French fashion establishment, receiving a nomination for the LVMH Prize and winning the ANDAM Prize, and is listed as a member house of the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode (FHCM). The brand operates primarily online and through wholesale, based out of Paris.
Paris / Online
Paris-based label by German designer and Margiela alumnus Lutz Huelle, reworking familiar wardrobe pieces through altered proportions, hybrid construction and relaxed tailoring.
Best for Reworked classics and deformalized elegance from a Margiela alumnus's German-Paris design lens.
Lutz Huelle was born in 1966 in Remscheid, Germany, and trained at Central Saint Martins in London before working at Maison Martin Margiela, an apprenticeship whose influence on his taste for deconstruction and re-contextualized classics remains visible in his work. In 2000 he founded his eponymous Paris-based label together with David Ballu, who continues as his design partner. The house's guiding idea, which the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode describes as "décontextualisation," reworks familiar wardrobe staples -- trenches, tailoring, eveningwear -- by colliding them with sportswear and workwear references and mixing masculine and feminine codes within a single piece. The label won the ANDAM Fashion Award twice, in 2000 and 2002, early recognition that helped establish it within the Paris fashion calendar. Huelle's practice extends beyond his own label: he served as artistic director of the Spanish house Jesús del Pozo in 2019, designed a guest collection for Alber Elbaz's AZ Factory in 2022, and has led the fashion department at HEAD–Genève, the Geneva University of Art and Design, since 2021. The brand is a recognized member of the FHCM and sells through its own website and international stockists rather than a public retail boutique.
Paris / Online
Maison Père focuses on Polished Paris womenswear with blouses, tailoring, knits, and elegant casual pieces.
Best for Polished womenswear spanning blouses, tailoring and knitwear.
Paris / Online
Paris womenswear label founded by designer Margaux Lonnberg (reports vary between 2012 and 2013), blending Scandinavian minimalism, California ease, and Parisian tailoring; pieces are produced locally in Paris.
Best for Vintage-washed tees with Scandinavian-French rock-bohème nonchalance.
Margaux Lonnberg is a Paris-based womenswear brand built around its founder-designer's own name. Lonnberg, a French stylist, designer and photographer, launched the label in the early 2010s - some sources give 2012, others say the brand was co-founded with Warren Guetta in 2013. The collections - blazers, trousers, knitwear, shirting and dresses - are described by the brand and retailers as combining Scandinavian minimalism with a Californian ease and an underlying Parisian sensibility. The brand states its pieces are manufactured locally in Paris using natural fibers. Margaux Lonnberg sells direct-to-consumer online and is stocked by a number of multi-brand boutiques and platforms across France and internationally.
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Paris menswear label founded around 2018 by couple Bertille and Thomas Mouty, gaining traction from 2020; known for embroidered shirting and streetwear-meets-tailoring pieces. Boutique and click-and-collect at 26 rue Gustave Courbet, Paris 16th arrondissement.
Best for Playful embroidered motifs on impeccable poplin shirting from Paris
Mouty is a Paris menswear brand built around the partnership of Bertille and Thomas Mouty, who together design collections spanning jackets, embroidered shirts, cargo pants, t-shirts and accessories. Sources place the label's founding around 2018, gaining real market traction from 2020. Mouty's positioning sits at the boundary of streetwear and traditional tailoring, pairing embroidery, lace and pastel tones with looser, sport-influenced silhouettes. The brand's real, currently active website is mouty-paris.com, listing free click-and-collect from a boutique at 26 rue Gustave Courbet in Paris's 16th arrondissement.
Paris / Multiple
Founded in 1973 by brothers Patrick and Gérard Pariente; the brand's 1983 ready-to-dye cotton suits, stamped with its truck logo, became a signature of 1980s French youth fashion.
Best for 80s Paris high-street playful femininity, the original grand méchant look
Naf Naf was founded in Paris in 1973 by brothers Patrick and Gérard Pariente. Their first shop was named Naphtaline; a second boutique, opened five years later, was called Influence, before the brand formally adopted the Naf Naf name in 1979 when the company incorporated as Naf Naf SA. The brand's breakthrough came in 1983 with a line of ready-to-dye cotton suits, stamped with the truck logo and the company's phone number, that became closely associated with 1980s French street style. Through that decade, Naf Naf's colorful, affordable ready-to-wear collections were closely tied to French youth fashion. The company expanded into accessories including eyewear and bags by 1985, entered the Japanese market with a 'By Naf Naf' collection in 1986, and launched its first perfume in partnership with L'Oréal in 1991. The brand later expanded into menswear and other categories, and though its footprint has shrunk in some markets in recent years — it ended operations in Spain after three decades there — it remains a recognizable name from the era it helped define.
Paris / Online
Noyoco makes relaxed tailoring, shirts, trousers and knitwear with a responsible-material focus. Neutral colours and easy proportions allow pieces to cross conventional menswear and womenswear categories.
Best for Paris responsible-fashion soft tailoring, shirts, and low-key luxury knitwear
Paris / Online
Paris menswear label founded late 2021 by designer Arthur Robert, blending Parisian tailoring with denim and workwear inspired by his family's Biarritz roots and California influences.
Best for Skate staples
Ouest Paris (also styled OUEST) was founded in late 2021/2022 in Paris by designer Arthur Robert, born 1990 in Paris and trained at the Atelier Chardon Savard fashion school, who spent roughly a decade working for other Parisian fashion houses before starting his own label. The brand's aesthetic draws on three reference points: the Paris he grew up in, his family's roots in Biarritz on France's southwest coast, and a California influence tied to his own experience growing up queer in the 1990s-2000s. The result is described as a 'rough and tough uniform' built on denim, workwear-influenced coats and jersey. Ouest Paris has shown during Paris Fashion Week and was a finalist for the 2023 ANDAM Prize.
Paris / Online
Parages builds relaxed menswear around shirts, overshirts, chore jackets and easy trousers. Fabrics and muted colours make pieces combine readily, giving shoppers a coherent wardrobe without formal tailoring.
Best for Relaxed overshirts, chore jackets and easy menswear separates.
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Philippe Conticini’s Paris counters sell pastries, viennoiserie and signature desserts such as Paris-Brest. Individual portions support tasting, while boxed cakes and larger formats suit gifts or planned celebrations.
Best for Paris-Brest perfection and gourmand viennoiserie, stocked at Galeries Lafayette
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Play Up makes softly coloured children’s clothing in organic or lower-impact fabrics with garment-dyed finishes. Comfortable shapes and material information matter more than decoration, suiting everyday wear and layering.
Best for Garment-dyed organic Portuguese childrenswear, stocked at Galeries Lafayette
Paris / Online
Pressiat creates dramatic eveningwear, sharp tailoring, leather and lace with a stage-ready silhouette. The pieces are designed for visual impact, making fit and construction especially important for substantial purchases.
Best for Dramatic evening silhouettes and stage-ready leather and lace tailoring
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RIVES makes tailored menswear at its Paris boutique on rue Pasquier, with commissions extending beyond suits to shirts and coats. The house dates its beginnings to 2016 and offers both wedding clothing and business or casual wardrobes. Customers can book an appointment to discuss a garment, with separate information on pricing and production time available from the house.
Best for Made-to-measure menswear and wedding suits in Paris
RIVES Paris is a made-to-measure tailoring house founded in 2016 by a team including CEO and co-founder Antoine Salmon, based at 23 rue Pasquier in Paris's 8th arrondissement. The house positions itself as an update on traditional French bespoke tailoring: full sartorial craftsmanship, but with what its founders describe as a more contemporary eye. Each commission begins with a conversation about how the client dresses, moves and what he needs from a suit, before fabric selection - RIVES sources wool flannel, cashmere and Japanese gabardine among other cloths - pattern-making and multiple fittings in the workshop. A distinct pattern is cut for every order rather than adjusted from a house block.
Paris / Online
The house of le smoking — Anthony Vaccarello’s sharp-shouldered Parisian seduction on Rive Gauche foundations laid in 1961. Past seasons of the Rive Gauche line reach The Mall outlet at Leccio Reggello, outside Florence.
Best for Le smoking energy, Kate bags and rock-precise tailoring.
Yves Saint Laurent, who had succeeded Dior at twenty-one, founded his own house with Pierre Bergé in 1961 and proceeded to hand women the male wardrobe: Le Smoking tuxedo in 1966 — photographed by Helmut Newton into permanent iconography — the safari jacket, the pantsuit, the sheer blouse. His 1966 Rive Gauche line made him the first couturier to take ready-to-wear seriously as a creative act rather than a diffusion. The house's Paris archives are now a museum in his former studio. Under its current direction the label trades in sharp-shouldered, rock-inflected tailoring that keeps faith with the founder's silhouette. The Mall outlet outside Florence offers the house at reduced prices — worthwhile for the tailoring and leather goods, where the design constants hold. A black YSL blazer remains one of fashion's few genuinely permanent purchases.
At the outlet, hold out for the tailoring and leather rather than logo pieces — the cut is the house's permanent asset and discounts on it are the real find.
Paris / Online
Saint Sens appears to redirect to Swann Paris, a made-to-measure tailoring business for suits, shirts and wedding clothing.
Best for Made-to-measure suits, tuxedos, and wedding tailoring in Paris
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Paris bespoke tailoring since 1999 — made-to-measure suits and shirts using Italian fabrics and European production.
Best for Appointment-based made-to-measure formal tailoring in Paris
Samson was established in 1999 by husband-and-wife team Sophie Samson and Stephen Ricard, opening their first boutique on rue de l'Arcade in the 8th arrondissement and establishing themselves as leaders in French made-to-measure menswear. The house maintains two flagship locations: Saint-Germain at 15 Rue de Tournon (open Tuesday–Saturday 11:00–19:30 by appointment) and Madeleine at 8 Rue Chauveau-Lagarde (same hours). Samson combines precise cutting, premium European fabrics, and personalized service while maintaining 100 percent European production—a deliberate commitment to regional craftsmanship and quality control. The tailoring house offers over 450 fabric selections for custom-made suits, trousers, blazers, jackets, vests, shirts, and coats, sourcing materials from established mills including Italian wool suppliers and carefully selected English cotton and linen vendors. By controlling design and manufacturing at every step, Samson delivers an incomparable quality-to-price ratio within the appointment-based bespoke sector.
Paris / Online
Paris bespoke tailor founded 1999 by stylist Sophie Samson and fabric agent Stéphan Ricard, opened first on rue de l'Arcade near the Madeleine. Suits and shirts are cut in-house and sewn in Poland from Italian mills including Vitale Barberis Canonico.
Best for Event and office suiting cut to the client
Samson was founded in 1999 when Sophie Samson, a stylist and pattern-maker, met Stéphan Ricard, then a sales representative for major Italian fabric houses in France. Together they opened their first boutique on rue de l'Arcade, near the Madeleine in Paris, with the explicit goal of making bespoke tailoring more accessible than the traditional Parisian tailoring houses. The venture succeeded quickly enough that a second boutique opened the following year on rue de Tournon, in the 6th arrondissement.
The house controls the process from pattern to finished garment in-house, and sources its cloth from established Italian mills such as Vitale Barberis Canonico and Angelico for wool suiting, while the actual sewing of suits and shirts has been carried out by workshops in Poland since the company's earliest years, a structure the founders describe as keeping construction quality high while holding down cost against traditional made-to-measure pricing.
Since 1999, Samson has expanded well beyond its two original Paris addresses, now operating in Bordeaux, Marseille, Lille, Lyon, Nantes, Nice and Strasbourg in addition to Paris, and describes itself as a leading French bespoke menswear tailor built on the accessible model Samson and Ricard set out to create.
Paris / Online
Founded in Brussels in 1938 by textile merchant Otto Hertz, Scabal invented the fabric swatch book that year and later acquired the Bower Roebuck mill in Huddersfield. Still family-owned, it opened its Savile Row shop in 1972 and also operates a made-to-measure store in Paris.
Best for Luxury cloth and bespoke tailoring for suits and jackets
Scabal was founded in Brussels in 1938 by Otto Hertz, a textile merchant whose company name — Société Commerciale Anglo-Belgo-Allemande-Luxembourgeoise — signaled international ambitions from the outset, sourcing and supplying fine cloth across borders rather than serving a single national market. That same year, Hertz is credited with inventing the fabric swatch book, now a standard tool across the tailoring trade for showing clients cloth options without shipping full bolts. For much of its early history the company operated primarily as a textile supplier rather than a retailer, weaving cloth at its own mill and supplying it to established fashion houses and tailors. It acquired the Bower Roebuck mill in Huddersfield, in England's historic wool-weaving region, giving it direct control over cloth production rather than relying solely on outside weavers. In 1972 Scabal opened its own shop at No. 12 Savile Row in London, placing it on the street most associated with English bespoke tailoring, from where it now supplies cloth daily to neighboring tailoring houses and to customers in more than seventy countries. The company remains independently family-owned and manufactures across Western Europe rather than outsourcing production abroad, and it also operates a made-to-measure location in Paris alongside its Brussels and London addresses.
Paris / 7th
Paris trouser-first tailoring — 7th-arrondissement sartorial menswear of legwear devotion.
Best for Trouser-first tailoring in the 7th arrondissement
Paris / Online
French womenswear label founded in Marseille in 1996 by designer Emma Francois, whose travels through Guatemala shaped a boho-chic aesthetic of earthy tones, natural fabrics and relaxed, feminine tailoring; opened its first Paris store in 2004.
Best for Folk-artisan womenswear designed by Marseille's Emma François
Sessun was founded in Marseille in 1996 by Emma Francois, a former anthropology student from Montpellier. A trip to Guatemala at age 21 exposed her to local craftsmanship and shaped the label's guiding idea of mixing traditional know-how with urban fashion silhouettes. She opened Sessun's first store in Paris, on Rue de Charonne, in 2004. The brand's boho-chic identity grew into a network of roughly 400 retail points across France and internationally. In 2019, Sessun opened 'Sessun Alma' in Marseille, a lifestyle space combining retail with crafts and dining.
France / Online
Founded in 1978 in the Limousin region, Smuggler is a French tailoring house selling from boutiques in Paris and Limoges; after its longtime manufacturing partner, France Confection, went into liquidation in 2020, the brand's suits are now produced across workshops throughout Europe.
Best for French-made suiting crafted in Limoges
Smuggler was founded in 1978 as a menswear ready-to-wear chain in France's Limousin region and was taken over by the company Orphée Longchamp in 1985. Its modern identity as a Made in France specialist dates to around 2000, when Gilles Attaf and Serge Bonnefont partnered the brand with the France Confection workshops in Limoges to produce tailored suits at accessible prices; in December 2011 Smuggler earned the Origine France Garantie label for its suits, jackets, trousers and waistcoats, and it went on to dress the organizing committee of Euro 2016. The brand hit financial trouble in the mid-2010s: its parent company entered receivership in January 2017 and liquidation in March 2018, when the Paris-based Molitor group acquired Smuggler. Its Limoges manufacturing partner, France Confection, then entered its own receivership in January 2020 and liquidation that March, before being taken over by Ludovic and Corinne Gaudic, who kept its roughly 85 employees on. Today Smuggler operates as an active tailoring house selling custom and ready-to-wear suits, jackets and accessories from boutiques in Paris (rue de Courcelles) and Limoges, sourcing materials and workshops across Europe rather than exclusively in France, a shift from its earlier all-France manufacturing model.
Paris / Online
Stone Paris offers delicate diamond rings, necklaces and earrings designed for subtle layering. The restrained scale suits everyday fine jewellery, while appointments help compare stone size, setting and metal colour.
Best for Diamond rings, necklaces, and quiet-luxury jewelry gifts
Paris / Online
Dressed to the nines — “sur son 31” — Paris custom tailoring for wedding-day sharpness.
Best for Paris custom tailoring for wedding-day dressing.
Paris / France / Online
Paris fashion label founded 2008 by brothers Alexander, Laurent and Raphael Elicha, sons of Comptoir des Cotonniers' founders; built its identity on rock-inspired tailoring and 'Together since...' ad campaigns.
Best for Rock-inspired Parisian tailoring; Sport, Parisian
The Kooples was founded in Paris in 2008 by three brothers, Alexander, Laurent and Raphael Elicha, whose parents had founded the womenswear label Comptoir des Cotonniers in 1995. The brand's name plays on the French pronunciation of 'couples,' reflecting an original idea of building a store real couples could shop together, and its advertising became known for pairing two stylish people in each campaign under captions like 'Together since...' Stylistically, the label draws on Parisian nightlife and London's underground music scene, mixing structured tailoring with leather, velvet and rock-inspired detailing. The brand expanded rapidly through the 2010s into a wide network of stores in France and internationally.
Paris / Online
Paris menswear label for dress shirts, suits, jackets, trousers, ties, cufflinks, belts, and useful sartorial accessories.
Best for Paris menswear — dress shirts, suits, ties, cufflinks, and sartorial accessories
Paris / Online
TUMI specializes in premium luggage and travel products, from carry-ons and suitcases to backpacks, business bags and accessories, with collections built around travel and work.
Best for Premium luggage, carry-ons, backpacks, business bags, and travel accessories
Boulevard Beaumarchais, Paris
Paris womenswear label by designer Valentine Gauthier, launched after she won the 2006 Dinard prize; opened her first Marais boutique in 2009 and an expanded flagship-plus-workshop there in 2018; sustainable since founding.
Best for Responsible Paris tailoring, printed dresses and knitwear
Valentine Gauthier is a Paris-based womenswear designer who studied geo-ethnology before training in fashion design and modeling at the Chardon Savard workshop, and who worked with designer Martin Margiela early in her career. She launched her eponymous label after winning the Dinard International Fashion Festival prize in 2006, and opened her first standalone boutique in the Marais district of Paris in 2009. In 2018 she expanded that address into a larger flagship with design workshops upstairs. Gauthier has described her commitment to sustainable and ethical production as dating to the label's founding in 2009. In 2019 she won the Grand Prix de la Creation de la Ville de Paris. Her collections use eco-sourced materials and are designed around comfort, modularity and longevity rather than seasonal trend cycles.
Paris / Online
Paris tailoring house founded in 2020 by Pierre-Francois Valette, an Institut Francais de la Mode graduate (2018) who trained at Isabel Marant and Saint Laurent and won the 2019 Saint Laurent Couture Institute Prize.
Best for Pierre-François Valette's sharp-shouldered neo-dandy tailoring
Valette Studio was founded in Paris in 2020 by Pierre-Francois Valette, who graduated from the Institut Francais de la Mode in 2018 after training in the ateliers of Isabel Marant and Saint Laurent, and who won the Saint Laurent Couture Institute Prize in 2019. The label centers on a unisex, tailoring-driven wardrobe that reinterprets classic suit construction with a softer, more contemporary silhouette. Valette Studio shows as part of the official Paris Fashion Week Homme calendar under the FHCM, with recent collections including an SS27 lineup titled 'Dandys Dada.'
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Born 1967 in Huron, California; launched his eponymous menswear label in 2015, later served as Calvin Klein's SVP of Design, and won CFDA Menswear Designer of the Year in 2023 and 2024.
Best for Oversized tailoring and dignity-first Chicano American design
Willy Chavarria was born in 1967 in Huron, California, growing up in a working-class household with a Mexican-American father and an Irish-American mother — a background that recurs directly in his design references to Chicano culture and American labor iconography. He studied at the Academy of Art University before working in design roles at major American labels, including a stint as Senior Vice President of Design at Calvin Klein through 2024.
He launched his own eponymous label in 2015, building a reputation for oversized tailoring and politically direct runway presentations that address immigration, masculinity and Latino identity in the U.S. His work has been recognized with the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in 2022, the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Award in 2021, and back-to-back CFDA Menswear Designer of the Year awards in 2023 and 2024.
The brand has also run collaborations with larger companies, including Adidas, extending its reach beyond runway-only fashion into more accessible product lines while keeping its underlying design language intact.
Paris / Korean origin / Online
Korean menswear designer in Paris since 2002 — minimalist tailoring, quiet sophistication, and an ever-evolving study in modern masculinity.
Best for Korean minimalist menswear in Paris
France / Online
Saint-Tropez preppy since 1976 — Daniel Crémieux's French-American collegiate casual wear blending Riviera ease with refined tailoring.
Best for French-American collegiate prep style since 1976
Crémieux is a luxury menswear brand founded in 1976 by Daniel Crémieux in Saint-Tropez, France, born from a personal vision to create the best French interpretation of American preppy style. Crémieux drew inspiration from time spent in London studying British student style, then traveled to New York to study traditional American preppy menswear before returning to France with his design mission. The brand's signature aesthetic fuses American collegiate tradition with Saint-Tropez Riviera spirit, translating into colorful preppy-inspired sweaters, dress shirts, and regimental striped ties. The company emphasizes hand-tailored suits manufactured in Italy and sophisticated beachwear pieces suited to relaxed, refined styling. Starting from its flagship boutique in Saint-Tropez, the brand expanded internationally to major cities including New York (Hudson Yards and Madison Avenue), Boston, Palm Beach, Capri, and London's Savile Row. A significant 2000 partnership with American retailer Dillard's, which operates 280 U.S. stores, broadened accessibility. The brand motto, "Il n'y a pas d'avenir sans passé" (There is no future without the past), reflects its commitment to timeless elegance and heritage craftsmanship.
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French menswear chain founded in 1995 by siblings Alain Mliczak, Samy Mliczak and Evelyne Jurville in their tailor father's former Paris shop near Montparnasse; grew from shirts and suits into France's leading suit retailer, with about 70 stores today.
Best for Modern urban menswear
Father & Sons was founded in 1995 by three siblings, Alain and Samy Mliczak and their sister Evelyne Jurville, who set up shop in the space their father had run as a tailor near Montparnasse in Paris. The brand started with shirts, then added suits, which became its calling card: within a year it had six stores across the Paris region, and by 1999 it began expanding nationally across France. Industry coverage credits Father & Sons with becoming France's leading suit retailer as of 2022, and the chain now operates close to 70 addresses in France, with additional distribution in Belgium and Germany. The company marked roughly three decades in business around 2025.
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French skiwear house founded in 1952 in Annecy by tailors Georges Ribola and Rene Veyrat, inventors of the fitted 'fuseau' ski trouser; dressed Olympic skiers Jean-Claude Killy and the Goitschel sisters and produced one of the first competition ski suits in 1966.
Best for Ski alpine polos; French alpine skiwear
Fusalp was founded in 1952 on the shores of Lake Annecy by two tailors, Georges Ribola and Rene Veyrat, both avid skiers who set out to design a better alternative to the era's conventional ski trousers. Their answer was the 'fuseau,' a slim, body-conscious ski pant that gave the brand its name. At the 1966 world ski championships in Portillo, Chile, Ribola and Veyrat produced one of the first true competition ski suits. Fusalp built its profile through champion athletes including the Goitschel sisters and Jean-Claude Killy. In recent years the brand has been repositioned as a luxury label under the Lacoste family.
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French fashion brand founded 1987 in La Séguinière by Gérard Le Goff with stylist Sonia Provost, launched as children's/teen clothing with adult-inspired styling. Added womenswear in 1999 and menswear in 2003; now owned by LBO France's White Knight fund.
Best for French family fashion, leather jackets and casual tailoring
IKKS was founded in 1987 in La Séguinière, in the Pays de la Loire region of western France, by Gérard Le Goff, working with stylist Sonia Provost. The brand launched as a children's and teenage clothing line distinguished by borrowing adult fashion codes — darker colors and more structured silhouettes than typical kidswear of the period. That styling, described by French fashion press as carrying a rock-inflected edge, proved appealing beyond its original age bracket, and IKKS expanded into womenswear in 1999 and menswear in 2003, becoming a full family-wardrobe brand spanning three generations under one label. IKKS spent a period as part of Groupe Zannier, one of France's larger apparel manufacturing and licensing groups, before being sold in July 2015 to the White Knight fund managed by private equity firm LBO France. The brand remains positioned in the French mid-market, distinguished from mass fast fashion by design continuity traced back to Le Goff and Provost's original children's-line aesthetic, now applied across adult ready-to-wear collections as well.
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French menswear chain launched 1994 as Camaïeu Homme, acquired 1996 by the Mulliez family (Auchan, Decathlon), renamed Jules in 2000. Headquartered in Roubaix; part of the Fashion Cube group (formerly Happychic) since a 2009 merger.
Best for French casual menswear, knitwear and everyday tailoring
Jules began in 1994 as Camaïeu Homme, a menswear offshoot of the women's chain Camaïeu. In 1996 it was bought by the Association Familiale Mulliez, the family holding company behind Auchan, Decathlon and Leroy Merlin. In March 2000 the chain was renamed Jules — a nod to the French slang term for boyfriend — and repositioned around affordable, trend-driven clothing for young urban men. Growth was rapid: the chain reached roughly 200 stores by 2004. In 2009, Jules merged with sister menswear chains Brice and Bizzbee to form the retail group Happychic, renamed Fashion Cube in 2020. The company has remained headquartered in Roubaix, at 152 avenue Alfred Motte, in the historic textile-manufacturing heart of France's Nord region that also produced several of the Mulliez family's other retail ventures. Jules today operates as a mid-market chain rather than an artisanal or heritage label, selling ready-to-wear menswear through several hundred stores in France and abroad, positioned around accessible, wardrobe-basics fashion.
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La Maison Pernoise is a Provence concept store mixing furniture, tableware, textiles, jewellery and fragrance. The cross-category edit suits shoppers looking for a coherent southern interior rather than one specialist craft.
Best for Provence furniture, tableware, textiles, and jewelry finds
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