Marc Le Bihan - Fashion Company Profile
Marc Le Bihan is the Paris designer who founded his own company in 1991 - an independent label built on tapestry-weaving training, vintage cloth reworked into one-off pieces, and collections that return to the same themes rather than chasing seasons.
Company Snapshot
- Status
- Operating - a small independent Paris designer label; recent collections (including FW25/26) are sold through specialist retailers and the label's Le 39 boutique in Paris
- Type
- Private - an independent designer company founded by the designer
- Headquarters
- Paris, France
- Founded
- 1991, in Paris, by Marc Le Bihan (the company took its theme and name, Lange et Linceul, from one of his earliest collections)
Company Profile
The label's own site is linked above. As a small Paris designer label whose pieces are sold through specialist boutiques, Marc Le Bihan carries no Amazon/eBay shop box here - no mass-marketplace range for the label was verified, and the label's own channels are the destination. Recent collections, including FW25/26, continue to be presented and sold, and the label's Le 39 boutique at 39 rue Etienne Marcel in Paris hosts emerging designers. The fuller record - the Gobelins tapestry years, the Hyeres prize and ANDAM bursary, and the Lange et Linceul method - is kept in full on the history page, with its photograph.
Set against those dresses, the same collections place combat dress and heavy boots that look drawn from military surplus, a reminder in the source's phrasing that fashion also permits disturbed dreams. That collision is presented as method rather than mood. Customising a vintage piece and interpreting a new material carry the same intention for this designer, because both begin with cloth that already has a past. A portion of every collection is offered as one-off pieces cut from old garments, dinner suits or uniforms, selected for the quality of the historical record cloth, so reuse here is a couture technique chosen at the cutting table, not a styling shortcut applied afterwards.
Marc Le Bihan History
The earlier record for this company - its history, past brand line-ups, figures and photographs from the periods described - is kept on a separate page for historical reference.
Marc Le Bihan History & Historical Profile →Common Questions
When did Marc Le Bihan found his label?
In 1991, in Paris. He had trained in tapestry weaving at the Manufacture des Gobelins from 1982 to 1986 and worked as a weaver until 1990.
What does Lange et Linceul mean?
It translates as 'the swaddling cloth and the shroud' - the first and last garments - the theme of one of his earliest collections and the name given to his company.
Where can Marc Le Bihan pieces be bought?
Through specialist boutiques and the label's own Paris presence, including the Le 39 boutique at 39 rue Etienne Marcel; the label does not sell through mass marketplaces in any verified range, so this page carries no shop box.
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