House of Lesage has been creating opulent embroidery requiring countless hours of work and exceptional skills for Haute Couture, Ready-to-Wear and accessories since its creation in 1924. The company founded an embroidery school in 1992 that welcomes those who are passionate about embroidery from all over the world.
Founded by Albert and Marie-Louise Lesage, who had taken over an embroidery workshop that supplied the first great names in couture, the maison Lesage quickly made a name for itself with its technical innovations and avant-garde motifs of shells, circus performers and zodiac signs. After the war, Francois Lesage, the son of Albert and Marie-Louise, took over control of the house quickly won the trust of new clients like Pierre Balmain, Cristobal Balenziaga, Christina Dior, Hubert de Givenchy, Christian Lacroix and Yves Saint Laurent.
In 1998, driven by a desire to diversify the establishment’s activities, François Lesage created a textile workshop. He suggested some tweeds for his Haute Couture and Ready-to-wear collections for the great names in fashion. They are a sophisticated assembly of the most diverse types of threads and materials, and involve extraordinary know-how.
Though Lesage was bought by Chanel in 2002, the atelier has retained its independence, continuing to work for all the top couture houses, and is responsible for many of beadings and embroideries that grace the famous Parisian couture collections. With 60,000 samples accumulated over its long history, the Lesage archives represent the biggest collection of couture embroidery in the world, with the atelier adding to this rich heritage every year with around a hundred of new embroideries designs.
His son Jean-François created his own workshop producing embroidery for interiors in Chennai, India, where he is established since 1993. He often works with the shoemaker Christian Louboutin and regularly works with the Maison Lesage in Paris.
"We are playing our part in the kingdom of the imagination. Embroidery can be a woman's dream become reality.” François Lesage.
