Our Heritage

A heritage shaped by skin and body

From his early work in psychomotricity, Jean-Claude Jitrois developed a singular conviction:
the skin is language, identity, and presence.
Clothing becomes, for him, a second skin — a support for the self, revealing movement and expression.

Light, colour, gesture

Between Nice, Congo and the artists of the École de Nice, Jitrois formed a unique relationship with colour, surface and the way the body occupies space.
Leather is no longer a rigid material: it becomes an expressive, living, sensitive surface.

The 1980s: the birth of leather couture

In the 1980s, Jitrois radically transformed leather.
He introduced colour, then elevated leather into a couture material:
sculpted leather dresses, shoulder volumes, defined waists, embroidery, luminous architectural constructions.
Leather became a creative fabric, shaped like haute couture.

The 1990s: the invention of stretch leather

In the early 1990s, Jitrois created stretch leather, a decisive innovation.
The flower side of plongé lambskin — carefully preserved — is bonded onto a cotton–Lycra base, giving the leather controlled elasticity while maintaining its nobility.
For the first time, leather could follow the body like a true second skin.

Today: a vision of body and freedom

Jitrois is recognised as the French House that reinvented leather —
and continues to reinvent it:
in colour, in form, in technique, and in its intimate relationship with the body.
A living heritage that places movement, silhouette and self-expression at the heart of creation.