
2020 · Paris, 11ᵉ
A wedding suit, a wrong fit, an obsession.
It started with one ruined photograph. Our founder, Mathieu, stood at his brother's wedding in a suit that fit nowhere — shoulders too wide, sleeves too short, a button gap that mocked every photograph for years afterward. He spent the next eighteen months learning why this happens, and how, and whether it could be solved without the gatekeeping of old-world tailoring.
It could. The answer was a hybrid: remote measurement protocols developed with a Savile Row pattern cutter, paired with the cloth and construction of a traditional atelier. Lanoir's first suit went out in May 2021 — to a friend's wedding in Marseille, on the wrong cloth, for free.




