Heritage: 1962–2025
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Heritage: 1962–2025

Six decades of quiet excellence. From our founding in a small atelier on the Left Bank to today, the principles remain unchanged: craft over speed, quality over quantity.

January 15, 2025~3 min read
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Atelier & light

In 1962, Aurèle Montfort opened her first atelier in a two-room apartment above a café on the rue de Sèvres. She had three sewing machines, no clients, and an unshakeable conviction: that French women deserved clothes that lasted. Her first collection—twelve pieces in black and camel—sold out in a week. 'I didn't design fashion,' she would later say. 'I designed permanence.'

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— Aurèle Montfort, Founder (1962)

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