Louis Garneau Women's Fashion Brand

Louis Garneau is a Canadian Olympic cyclist who competed in the Men's Road Race at the 1984 L.A. Olympics. In 1984, after participating in the Olympics, Louis decided to leave active competition and turn to business. Louis and his wife Monique Arsenault knew cycling and had first-hand experience with the lack of good technical clothing in the market; Louis had not-so-fond memories of using a garbage bag as a rain jacket during quite a few races, and knew that his design background and knowledge posed an opportunity. The garbage-bag rain jacket is the founding insight of a technical apparel company: the founder had personally raced in the failure the products exist to prevent.

Garneau is a Quebec-based company founded in 1983 by Olympic cyclist Louis Garneau. It remains a family-owned apparel, helmet, shoe and bicycle company, and it is the oldest and longest-running custom cycling clothing company in North America. The founded-in-1983 date sits one year before the 1984 Olympics in the record as given - the company began while its founder was still racing - and the family-owned status, stated as continuing, makes Garneau a rarity among technical sports brands of its scale: still independent, still in Quebec, still in the founder's family.

A Manufacturer, Not Just a Label: 50 Countries of Technical Clothing

Garneau is distributed in more than 50 countries, with production facilities in Canada, the United States and Mexico. The company is a designer and an actual manufacturer, with numerous patents and industry-leading production designs and techniques, and it undertakes the development, design and production of all of its products. That manufacturer status is the profile's key commercial fact: a brand that designs AND produces its own technical clothing controls the seams, chamois placement and fabric finishing that decide whether cycling kit works at hour four, and its custom clothing program - the oldest and longest-running in North America - supplies teams as well as individuals.

The product spectrum, spans apparel, helmets, shoes and bicycles, across every cycling tribe: roadies, mountain bikers, cross racers, fat bikers, spinning enthusiasts and triathletes, or a mix of everything. The women's range inherits that structure directly - women's cycling apparel designed inside a full-system house, where jersey, shorts, helmet and shoe are engineered as a kit rather than as unrelated items. For the custom side, Apparel Search's Garneau custom clothing coverage for cycling teams is linked from this page.

Shopping Women's Garneau Cycling Kit

The brand's official women's pages at garneau.com in its references, and they are carried here. Shop women's kit by the founder's own failure list: rain protection that is genuinely a jacket, not the garbage bag of his racing memory; shorts whose pad position matches your riding position; a jersey whose pockets carry weight without sagging; and ventilation you can operate at speed. Because Garneau manufactures its products, fit consistency across its lines is a stated structural advantage - learn your size in the brand once and build the kit around it.

An Olympic road race in 1984, a company founded in Quebec in 1983 and still family-owned, the oldest custom cycling clothing operation in North America, distribution in more than 50 countries and patents across its production: Louis Garneau is the L letter's technical cycling house, and every women's jersey it sells descends from a founder who raced in a garbage bag and decided the sport deserved better clothing.

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