Paris · since 2016
A jersey, a garment, a piece that matters: materials that hold careers, victories and moments of a life, yet end up folded at the back of a cupboard. We open them, we cut them, we line them with leather. They become objects you carry again.
The beginning
JOUBERT was born in 2016 from a simple observation: the textiles we keep longest are the ones we no longer wear. They stay in a box because we do not know what to do with them, and cannot bring ourselves to let them go.
The answer came down to one gesture: cutting. Opening the piece, stabilising it, lining it, edging it in leather, mounting it on a shape built for daily use. The memory is no longer stored away. It is carried.
More than three hundred pieces have left the workshop since.
One of the first projects used a jersey from a 2012 final. My hand was shaking as I cut into it. When the bag was finished and I held it in my palm, something happened: it was no longer a piece of fabric, it was a moment you could carry with you.
Franck Joubert, founder
The workshop
A jersey slips, stretches and has no grain: it has to be mapped, stabilised, then edged in leather so it lasts ten years. A hide imposes its own grain, with its flaws and the way it relaxes over time.
The same workshop handles both, with the same leatherworking gestures and the same hands: craftsmen who trained in the greatest French houses. Nothing leaves here in large runs.
The gesture does not change from one line to the next. What changes is the material you start from.
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The house
The same gesture, four starting points. Three dimensions make up what the house offers; the fourth exists by quotation only. Each answers a different use, a different degree of rarity and a different intent — yet all come out of the same workshop.
01 Dimension
Transforming what has been worn.
The starting point is your own textile: a jersey, a garment, a personal or iconic piece. We turn it into a bag made for daily use. Your jersey will yield one bag only: there is no second copy. This is where the story of the house began, and it is still how most of our clients discover it.
Made to orderCapsule
02 Dimension
Bringing existing materials to life.
Here the starting point is no longer a worn textile but a material chosen for its quality or its rarity: calfskins from the dormant stocks of the great houses, materials available in finite quantities. When the stock runs out, the run ends.
Limited run
03 Dimension
Designing the exceptional.
The rarest pieces of the house: precious leathers, calfskin interiors, micro-runs of a few examples. The piece is no longer merely functional, it becomes a statement. The hides are those we keep for Haute Métamorphose projects.
Micro-run
04 Ultimate dimension
Full bespoke. You define the use, you supply the textile, you choose the level of finish. The house adapts an existing shape or creates one, prototypes if needed, and takes on only a limited number of projects each year.
Our pieces do not sit in a window. They are carried through the city, on journeys, to the office — and they say something to anyone who can read a jersey.
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What next
Send us a photograph, tell us what it means to you and how you want to carry it. We will tell you what can be made of it, and what is better left alone.
