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Savoir-faire and design in motion

Our selection of fashion-clothing industry news

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Savoir-faire
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Julien Faure: Excellence in the Ribbon Industry

For more than 160 years, Julien Faure has preserved a rare savoir-faire in the Saint-Étienne region: the art of ribbon-making, which today serves the world’s greatest luxury houses and premium brands. Combining centuries-old professions, technical innovation, and family tradition, the company demonstrates that behind every ribbon lies a concentration of French industrial excellence and a multitude of applications.

Savoir-faire
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Cassy Concept Design: Bringing Ideas to Life

Located in the heart of the Landes region, Cassy Concept Design has been supporting lingerie, beachwear, and ready-to-wear brands for nearly twenty years through a crucial stage of the design process: the technical development of their products. Founded by Cassy Marit and taken over in 2023 by Fanny Ramière, this specialized product development unit offers its expertise in technical fashion design, patternmaking, and prototyping to both established brands and emerging designers.

Designers & Brands
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ANDAM Awards: Prestigious Honors That Promote French Design and Savoir-Faire

Nathalie Dufour, founder of ANDAM (National Association for the Development of Fashion Arts), explains the benefits of the prestigious awards—which include financial support and mentoring—that she launched for designers. Backed by the entire French fashion ecosystem, these awards foster lasting ties with the French garment making industry.

Manufacturers
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Manufactures de Tricots Jean Ruiz: one knit, workshops, one vision

Garment making knits in France is not based on a single design. Between volumes, technicality and product development, the industrial realities are multiple. The group led by Karine Renouil-Tiberghien and Arnaud de Belabre is built on this complementarity.

Savoir-faire
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Savoir-faire in suspenders at Gérard Boyer TTE

80 years of existence, over 120,000 suspenders manufactured each year and a unique positioning in France: Boyer TTE has chosen to devote the majority of its production to suspenders, which account for 60% of its business, alongside belts. Behind these wardrobe accessories lie real technical skills and specific industrial savoir-faire, now being redefined.

Reindustrialization
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The EPV label recognizes the excellence of rare savoir-faire

The state label is awarded to companies with exceptional know-how in crafts or industry. The Réseau Excellence EPV (Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant) strives to optimize and promote these assets.

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Maison du Savoir-Faire et de la Création is a general interest structure serving all fashion and clothing players - brands, clothing manufacturers, service providers and textile suppliers - who wish to commit to eco-responsible French manufacturing

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French contract manufacturers and their unique savoir-faire

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Connecting principals and manufacturers through the platform

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Fashion brands and designers in their Made in France projects

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To the Fashion & Luxury industry's strategic actions with all organizations

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Bringing together French brands and manufacturers of ready-to-wear, fashion accessories and household linen

Maison du Savoir-Faire et de la Création offers consulting and support services for brands as well as promotional and support services for manufacturers

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Our team listens to brands, designers and principals, advising them on the best French clothing manufacturers and facilitating connections for lasting partnerships

Project carrier workshops

We offer project bearers and young fashion brands support through workshops to raise awareness of French garment making for their collections

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We provide manufacturers registered on the platform with an exchange forum to share best practices and help each other on various topics related to their business

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Armine Ohanyan
Founder and Artistic Director
Maison Armine Ohanyan Paris

La Maison du Savoir-faire has been a great help in finding workshops and craftsmen to develop our collections in France. For emerging brands, it's a real commitment to make Made in France, and it's very reassuring to have their precious consulting to find French contract manufacturers. The platform puts us in touch with qualified, verified workshops.

Audrey Geschwind
President
Atelier 7474

I'd like to thank the Maison du Savoir-Faire et de la Création for highlighting all these French workshops and their savoir-faire. The platform gives them extra visibility. The team acts with kindness and it's very much appreciated. Thank you for all your hard work!

Steven Passaro
Founder and Creative Director
Steven Passaro

La Maison du Savoir-Faire et de la Création was a great help in finding our partners. It's a rich platform and a passionate team who were able to guide us to meet our needs, whether in terms of quantity constraints or the different products to be made.

Annie Carrai
Development Director
Fil Rouge

A unique network in France, La Maison du Savoir-Faire et de la Création is the only free website for companies in the textile/clothing sector who wish to promote their savoir-faire through the platform.

Laurent Marck
General Manager
Marck & Balsan

For us manufacturers, it's important to stick together. The platform forum enables us to discuss our production capacity issues, our equipment needs, and our recruitment and training challenges. It's a good initiative for collective action!

Alban Vias
Manager
Atelier D'Allichamps

I regularly receive requests from people who come to me for consulting from the Maison du Savoir-Faire et de la Création teams. I would like to thank these teams for the various recommendations they make of my workshop to brands, as well as the trust they place in my company and my work.

Nathalie Charpenel
Co-founder
Declamatuus Paris

The information is efficiently centralized and optimized for searching! Time-saving and quality-assured. A precious help for young designers who want to remain faithful to the made in France tradition.

Marion Levesque
Founder and Managing Director
Esperen

A wonderful platform that supports a heritage of excellence, French fashion. We're proud to be part of it!

Véronique Juillet
Founder
Marthe Paris

Many thanks for your invaluable help. What a remarkable monitoring tool for designers!

Valentin Torrens
Product Manager
Workshop 108

Intuitive and dense at the same time, the platform is an effective way of rapidly networking a maximum number of players in the textile and fashion industry in France today.

Thanks to its advanced search tool, it's very easy to find a partner who meets our needs, from design to assembly, from entry-level to luxury, from small batch to industrial production.