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FRENCH EXCELLENCE

Luxury lives in the details

All of them. An Empreinte-Moi shirt starts from a pattern drawn to your own measurements, then goes through cutting, assembly, finishing and inspection in our Angers atelier.

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Angers atelier · 100% French manufacture

Craftsman cutting navy blue fabric with tailor's scissors, following the pattern outline
EMPREINTE-MOI ATELIER

Our standard

An industrial shirt is sewn in eight minutes. An Empreinte-Moi shirt takes several hours of work. Delivery within 3 to 4 weeks from receipt of payment. That gap isn't slowness — it's the sum of the steps we refuse to skip.

French seams, invisible to the eye but essential to how a shirt hangs. Low-temperature fused interlinings so the collar keeps its structure wash after wash. Buttons sewn cross-wise with four thread passes rather than machine-stapled.

Our fabrics come from European mills selected one by one: two-ply poplins, oxfords, twills, linens and chambrays. Every reference is washed and pressed before it enters the catalogue. If a cloth pills or loses its shape, it doesn't make the cut.

Where your made in France shirt is made

Your shirt is made in Angers, in the Maine-et-Loire region. The pattern is drafted from your measurements; the pieces are cut, assembled, inspected and then shipped from this workshop. This is what our commitment to 100% French tailoring covers.

The fabrics: France, Italy, Egypt

We source our fabrics from French, Italian and Egyptian mills — poplin, oxford, twill, linen, chambray. We deliberately keep two things apart: where the fabric comes from and where the shirt is made. A shirt made in France may be woven elsewhere, and we would rather say so than suggest an entirely French supply chain.

What “made in France” means here

Cutting, assembly, embroidery and quality control are carried out in France. That is where a French shirt earns its hold: an accurate pattern, clean seams, a collar that keeps its shape after twenty washes.

100% French tailoring

Everything that turns a fabric into a shirt happens here: pattern, cutting, assembly, embroidery, inspection and shipping. None of these steps is subcontracted abroad, and none is carried out anywhere but Angers. That is what we call 100% French tailoring, and it is the only thing we claim at 100%.

We only make shirts. No accessories, no side collections: a single garment, crafted by artisans who make nothing else. A shirt made in France by people who make them every day does not drape like one off a multi-purpose production line.

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THREE NON-NEGOTIABLES

What we never compromise on.

  1. 01

    The cloth

    Two-ply poplins, oxfords, twills and linens from European mills. Every reference is washed, pressed and worn before it enters the catalogue. No fabric is selected on a swatch alone.

  2. 02

    The cut

    Your measurements, not an approximate size. The pattern is redrawn for every order: collar, shoulders, sleeve length and waist are adjusted to the millimetre from the values you give us.

  3. 03

    The finish

    French seams, low-temperature interlinings, cross-sewn buttons with four thread passes. A shirt must still hang well after fifty washes, not just on day one.

FROM ORDER TO DELIVERY

Six steps, one atelier.

Nothing is outsourced. From drawing the pattern to folding the finished shirt, everything happens in our Angers atelier.

  1. 01

    Measurement check

    An advisor calls you before production to confirm every measurement. It's the best moment to correct a value.

  2. 02

    Pattern drafting

    The pattern is redrawn for your body: collar, shoulders, length, waist. No standard size is used.

  3. 03

    Cutting

    Cutting is done flat, one piece at a time, to respect the grain and match patterns across seams.

  4. 04

    Assembly

    The pieces are assembled by hand: collar, collar stand, cuffs, yoke, placket, front panel if chosen.

  5. 05

    Embroidery

    Your initials are embroidered at the chosen position, in the selected typeface and thread colour.

  6. 06

    Inspection and dispatch

    Pressing, piece-by-piece quality control, folding and free shipping.

Tailor hand-assembling a piece of navy blue fabric in the workshop

THE ATELIER

The hand behind every shirt

Stylist, seamstress, embroiderer: every shirt passes through identified hands. We make nothing but shirts. If an alteration is needed, the same person picks your piece back up — they know it.

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OUR COMMITMENT

French. Bespoke. Built to last.

Made in Angers, European fabrics, alterations covered. A shirt made to last, not to be replaced in six months.

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