The best fashion and gift stores Aveyron

Saddler, bootmaker, and leatherworker above all, Jean-Pierre Romiguier, has been revisiting the pastoral tradition of old shepherd's bags for more than 30 years with the greatest respect. This bag, large and solid, composed of pockets and compartments, was once used to carry food, ointments, tools and knives and to protect the shepherds' clothes. Jean-Pierre Romiguier has brought this age-old concept up to date. A range of leather backpacks, caps, belts, sandals, and woolen skin with slippers, is also for sale.

The most beautiful postcards of the city are displayed in panoramic format. Beautiful photographs, home production, which will make it possible to visit this end of Aveyron to their recipients… Mr Martin has a permanent exhibition of his finest pictures in the shop.

La Maison du Livre is a bookshop located in Rodez. It offers a wide selection of books, films, music and games. Customers can buy in-store, do a drive-through or have their order delivered. La Maison du Livre also organizes events such as author signings.

Founded in 1989, the company's aim is to offer affordable, timeless leather city gloves to as many people as possible. Made with traditional craftsmanship, the gloves are designed to be durable, solid, comfortable and repairable. In addition to equipping the characters in a number of famous films, Atelier du Gantier works with the costume designers at the famous Parisian amusement park. In addition to a visit to the boutique, take advantage of a glove-making demonstration at the workshop, and don't forget to have your pair made to measure!

History: At the entrance to the eponymous village, the building itself symbolizes the activity. We know the lonely silhouette of this factory, in which the architect Philippe Starck has grabbed a huge blade. Forge de Laguiole was founded in 1987. It has resumed traditional manufacturing methods. We start the visit by the lobby and the exhibition room. The furniture, as in the downtown store, is signed Starck. We continue through the workshops and the forge (hot), which shows how metal, horn and wood blocks are transformed. Careful polishing, and this is the object ready to expose itself.

Specifications: This factory has made a certain reputation for Laguiole by obtaining many prizes. She made it known thanks to a few designer knives, having made some variations around the silhouette of this object - Starck, of course, but also Sonia Rykiel, Jean-Michel Wilmotte, Andrée Putman, Andrée Putman, Ora-Ïto… -, next to them, the magnificent pieces that Virgilio Muñoz Cabel is doing. Allero (Best Worker of France) and Stéphane Rambaud, the two art couteliers of the factory whose knives are a mixture of tradition and creation. You can also cite the collection made with the famous local restorers Bras. Finally, there are fluo, yellow, green or orange models!

Products: Art cutters, folding knives, table arts, design knives, sommeliers, unusual objects.

Benefits: Direct price out of factory.

Futed: Free or guided tour of the factory on request.

Catherine André is a top-of-the-range clothing company specialising in knitwear, distinguished by its work on materials, colours and shapes. The brand has built a creative and poetic universe where light and color draw infinitely new jacquards and prints. The design studio has a specific know-how, combining traditional and innovative knitting techniques. Each season, this expertise is used to create a new story, a new journey to give birth to exclusive models.

In this small shop held by volunteers, there is also coffee from Ethiopia as well as sugar, spices, musical instruments, crafts or clothing, all of which are, of course, based on fair trade.

Laguiole isn't the only village in Aveyron to have its own knife. Najac also has its own, thanks to Régis Najac - yes, this craftsman is named after the village in which he has set up his workshop! His "couteau de paix", as he calls it, is a simple, rustic folding knife with a round tip. Régis Najac subcontracts the manufacture of the blades to the Forge de Laguiole, but shapes the handles himself from materials he chooses more for their history than for their aesthetics. Knives are on sale at the workshop, which is open on request.

Catherine André has opened this store in Ruthenia in the summer of 2021. The designer from Millau, who already has points of sale all over the world (Europe, Asia, United States...) seized the opportunity of an empty space in the historic center to install her high-end fashion label. Customers are welcomed in an intimate and warm atmosphere to discover the wardrobe imagined each season by Catherine André. Her knitted creations, which transcribe her emotions and inspirations with yarns, are made in France.

Since 1852 in Millau, Mégisserie Richard has been renowned for its expertise in the manufacture of top-of-the-range dipped lambskins for the luxury goods industry, for leather goods, clothing, footwear and glove-making. Combining artisanal processes with modern industrial techniques, the company offers a range of 60 colors of lamb skins from Aveyron and Entrefinos in Spain. In 2013, the company was awarded the "Entreprise du patrimoine vivant" label, and in 2023, the Silver Medal of the Leather Working Group.

Born from the meeting of five enthusiasts, La Ferme du Vialaret offers quality products designed in environment-friendly conditions. The main activity of the operation involves angora rabbits rearing. From their hairs

Rendez-vous lovers, amateurs or collectors of ancient books, Catherine Gil's small shop, near the Place du Bourg, good leather and old paper offers an impressive collection of books on history or art, as well as rare books, old editions… The owner, Catherine Gil, an essential player of the place, regularly organizes specialized «lounges» - sales, antique postcards, genealogy, etc.

The charming timber shop of the Laguiole Library offers books to dream, understand, explore, escape or learn to read. Located in the heart of the old village, this generic boutique "and alternative" offers a wide range of works all public: beautiful books, regional books, youth literature: albums, pop-up, documentaries; novels, essays, documents; but also a whole radius mapping, postcards and posters.

If one comes to this small town, it is not so much for the architecture of this European center of contemporary ceramics as for what it houses. Conceived by Suzy and her partner Nigel, the Don du Fel houses pottery by French and European artists. One can also find there the unique pieces of salt stoneware made by Suzy. The clay is worked by hand on lathes and fired in a kiln, using the salt vapor glazing technique. A technique to discover through visits and demonstrations.

For lovers of flea, the barn of Gérard Caldamaison is Ali Baba's cave. In any case, in the case of old objects and regional antique furniture, the place to know in North Aveyron. First of all, because on two levels, thousands of "pieces" stack up and pile up in a mess that will delight priers. Mirror mirror, stone bazaar, bar stool years 20, Voltaire velvet, Byron's complete works connected leather, clothes parrot, fisherman's bourriche of the s or farm table of the XVIIIe of the xviiith, take the time to dig, browse: all discoveries are possible. Then, because of Gégé, you can buy its furniture "prepared", that is, antique and finished, but also crude (it is much cheaper!) with, in bonus, the pleasure of handling encaustic and iron straw, and feel the turpentine…

Near Gambetta Avenue, you enter the factory itself to finally access the collections shop. Here, the male models on one side, the woman on the other. The collections present the current cuts, the trend colours… As for the classics, they remain presented all year round: coats, three-quarters, soft or fur jackets, the whole is made of lainée skin, nubuck or fin. But it is in the summer that the choice is the widest, especially for colours. The price range of this house, founded in 1925, is wide enough to satisfy the greatest number.

On the Causses, one hundred and thirty years of glove history are written in Millau, the world cradle of the glove. This very special place is home to master glove-makers, seamstresses with meticulous hands and a unique know-how that no machine can replace. In the boutique, you can find top-of-the-range gloves made on site, as well as visit the workshops and a museum on the history of the company, featuring objects and gloves from old collections.

In a large workshop that has preserved its glass and waxed floors, three art professions display and enhance each other. Mary Beyer signs a colours jewelry that harmoniously blends the colours of the pearls of rock and strass, then used in haute couture, under his direction, Lavabre Cadet house regained his great references - she worked for Balmain, Chanel, Givenchy, Saint Laurent… - and released every year a collection of original gloves added to classical models.

In its two boutiques (over 500 m2), André Sales offers a wide range of leather goods, gloves, belts, briefcases, luggage, umbrellas, leather gift items, scarves, skins... Since 1984, the workshop has been making bags, small leather goods and belts, offering a wide choice of models: lambskin, stag, cowhide... Other address: Place du Mandarous.

In the off-season, one knocks on the window of this shop, but in summer it is always wide open onto the courtyard which also joins the workshop. For the pleasure of the eyes, all the leather goods are wisely lined up: briefcases, wallets, travel bags and handbags of all shapes. Black and browns are found throughout the range, with colours changing according to the collections, which means that some items can be purchased at promotional prices. The quality is impeccable.