Fashion 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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

At the gates of the Commanderie, Anne Gachelin works leather with a rare talent. In her workshop-boutique, you can find small and large wonders: a remarkable know-how for beautiful objects. You can also order a custom-made object, the bag of your dreams, for example. Besides leather, you can also find something to make a nice gift, as Anne also sells a whole range of local gourmet products, as well as jewellery, pottery and fabrics.

Bleu de chauffe evokes the canvas jacket once worn by steam locomotive drivers. It's also the signature of a young leather goods company. The brand's creations are inspired by the old trade bags once carried by letter carriers, plumbers and doctors. They are entirely manufactured in Aveyron. The skins are rigorously selected and naturally and vegetable tanned. Each bag is signed and dated by the maker, "like a unique piece".

Alexis, Daniel and Dominique have sealed their friendship in this brand of casual chic clothing made in Aveyron. As complicit as they are complementary, the three friends have chosen to interpret the symbols and values of the department in a collection of clothing and accessories for men and women. Trousers, shorts, t-shirts, shirts and polo shirts are made of noble materials, which give the collection, embellished with a "bee" coat of arms, a trendy and quality look. On sale in the shops in Rodez and Laguiole, as well as on the website.

Sophie Cépière is the heir to a line of talented little hands - from weaver to tailor, from spinner to hosiery maker - who bequeathed her a gift for sewing and her taste for beautiful materials. Since 2008, Sophie has been designing pieces - trousers, dresses, jackets, tunics, accessories - in 100% natural knitwear. She sources raw linen from the North of France, and finds top-of-the-range merino wool in Italy and buttons made of wood, horn or metal from a manufacturer in the Jura region. For the rest, she practices "Made in Aveyron" in her workshop.

Maison Lavabre Cadet was once Yves Saint Laurent's favorite glove brand, and was recently acquired by French luxury goods house Camille Fournet. Established in 1946, the Millau workshop still makes bespoke gloves for haute couture houses. Lavabre Cadet's exacting standards and expertise are perfectly in tune with the contemporary values of French luxury that Camille Fournet sought. Lavabre Cadet gloves can be found in numerous luxury boutiques in Paris, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto and Beijing.

In 1900, local tanner Joseph Carrière founded the company in Millau with the idea of producing white vegetable calfskin. Today, the tannery is the undisputed specialist in soft leathers and the only manufacturer of bovine flanks in France, expanding its expertise to include goat and lamb skins. Twenty-five industrial stages with artisanal know-how in five workshops are required to create quality leather. The company also equips industry, the police, the army and firefighters with hard-wearing garments and gloves.

Frédéric Salé is passionate about the boot-making trade. With many years' experience in the field, he created Aubrac Bottier and handcrafts high-quality shoes in his Aveyron workshop, at the foot of the Aubrac mountains, using the traditions and know-how inherited from the most renowned houses. It is aimed at consumers who are sensitive to a respectful, local production method that reflects the values of an exceptional region. It offers custom-made products, as well as three ranges of footwear with different models: country, urban and prestige.

Since 1880 in Aveyron, generations of craftsmen have succeeded one another in the manufacture of vegetable, chrome or mixed tanned bovine leathers for craftsmen in the saddlery and harness industry, leather goods, footwear, decoration and leather interiors. Labelled as a Living Heritage Company, the know-how of the Arnal tannery is enhanced by a continuous research of new processes and supported by the development of many creative and craft activities. Visits to the workshop are exceptional.

Since 1924, Maison Fabre has been perpetuating the traditional glove-making know-how in the heart of Millau. Classic, graphic or playful, Maison Fabre gloves are exceptional pieces of incomparable elegance. You can visit the factory where the manufacturing workshops are located and discover all the secrets of the glove factory: the history of the company, its major collaborations with fashion and cinema, and you can observe the cutting and sewing work right up to the finishing touches. A visit not to be missed, after the Viaduct.

Etienne Fabre created the luxury glove workshop in 1924. In the 1950s, his son moved into the current premises and his daughter-in-law left for Paris to present her collections. The company was an immediate success, with up to 300 employees. Two generations later, the Fabre family is still there, with several hundred customers around the world: leather goods manufacturers, department stores, luxury boutiques... The vast sales area presents its articles: gloves but also belts, card holders and, more recently, lambskin masks.