Since 2016 · Paris
If it cannot be wornfor ten years,we do not make it.
The house
One coat, then a rule
Maison Noir began with a single wool wrap coat, made because the founder could not find one that would survive a decade. It sold out in eleven days, and the decision that followed has shaped everything since: make fewer things, make them properly, and be able to name every hand that touched them.
Today the house produces thirty-two pieces a season across six ateliers, none larger than forty people. We do not run mid-season sales, because we produce in runs small enough to sell through. What is left at the end of a season goes to Final Cut, reduced once and never restocked.
Every product page names the mill, the tannery and the country of make. If a piece fails, we repair it — for as long as the house exists, at no cost, whether you bought it last month or in 2016.
2016
Founded in Paris
6
Partner ateliers
32
Pieces per season
∞
Repairs, always free
Where it is made
Six ateliers
We work with the same six workshops every season. Long relationships are the only way we know to hold a standard.
Biella, Italy
Wool & cashmere weaving
Since 2016
Hawick, Scotland
Fine-gauge knitwear
Since 2017
Porto, Portugal
Shirting & jersey
Since 2018
Ubrique, Spain
Leather goods
Since 2019
Como, Italy
Silk printing & weaving
Since 2021
Paris, France
Alterations & repairs
Since 2016
What it is made from
Three materials, named
Wool & Cashmere
Grade-A Mongolian cashmere under 15.5 microns, and virgin wool woven in Biella. Both arrive with a mill certificate we publish on the product page.
Vegetable-Tanned Leather
Tanned with oak and mimosa bark over six weeks rather than with chrome in a day. It patinas instead of cracking, and it can be composted.
Mulberry Silk
Woven and printed in Como using low-impact reactive dyes. Our prints are drawn in-house from botanical studies in the public domain.
“A wardrobe should get smaller and better every year. Ours is built to be the part you stop replacing.”
Claire Aubade — Founder & Creative Director
Come and see it in person
The Rue de Sévigné atelier is open tuesday – saturday, 11h – 19h. Appointments are not required, but they help.
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