Anissa Aida is a minimalist ready-to-wear label that draws on Tunisian and Japanese heritage, cutting garments with kirigami and origami techniques. The line has shown at London Fashion Week's Fashion Scout and at Far Nearer Paris.
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Anissa Aida is a minimalist ready-to-wear label built on a single technical signature: garments constructed with the paper-craft logic of kirigami and origami rather than conventional pattern-cutting. The brand's own description frames its point of view plainly — authentic, effortlessly chic, minimalist fashion that draws on both Tunisian and Japanese heritage — and the clothes bear that out. A kirigami knit top, an origami coat, a laser-cut deconstructed short, and an asymmetrical shirt with kirigami sleeves all use cut lines as the design's main event, rather than embroidery or print.
The label's runway history traces its early rise in London. It debuted on the Fashion Scout "Ones to Watch" catwalk during London Fashion Week in September 2016, returned for the Fashion Scout Autumn/Winter 2017 show the following February, and, in September 2017, presented its Fall/Winter 2017/19 collection on the runway at Far Nearer Paris. That history is presented on the brand's site as a straightforward show record, alongside a stockists page and press mentions — no embellishment.
For anyone shopping the collection today, the throughline is pieces built around folds, cuts, and geometry: a $425 origami coat, a $269 swallow-wings kimono, a $245 kirigami dress — wearable versions of a construction technique more often seen in paper art.
Masmoudi focuses on premium Tunisian patisserie with refined baklava, date maamoul, and luxury sweet gift boxes. At Multiple Locations, Tunis, the range centers on refined baklava, date maamoul, and luxury sweet gift boxes.
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This Tunisia-based operation is an independent art book publisher as well as a bookstore and book design studio. It can be reached at contact@bao-books.com.
Central describes itself on Instagram as "le reve d'un Art decloisonne, fun et ouvert qui invite a l'experience artistique" (an open, boundary-crossing art project inviting artistic experience), currently based "hors les murs" in La Marsa.
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Tunisian franchise of France's Fnac Darty, launched 2018 via Managetech (a joint venture of Groupe Indigo and UTIC), first opened at La Marsa, Tunis; sells appliances, electronics and audio online and in stores.
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Diwan stocks art, history, and Arab-heritage books from a shop in the Tunis medina. Its shelves include a dedicated Arabic literature section and archival photography by Lehnert & Landrock.
Best for Art, history, Arab-heritage books and archival photography
Ed-Dar is an antiques shop in a late-15th-century former residence in the Tunis medina. Brothers Ali and Youssef Chammakhi curate its collection of 17th- to 20th-century Tunisian jewelry, textiles, and carpets.
Best for Antique Tunisian jewelry, costumes, textiles
Ed-Dar occupies a former residence dating to the late 15th century in the Souk Ettrouk quarter of the Tunis medina, at 6-7 Souk Ettrouk, 8 rue Sidi Ben Arous. The shop is run by brothers Ali and Youssef Chammakhi, who built its inventory around a personal collection of Tunisian antiques rather than items made for resale. Pieces on display range from the 17th through the 20th century and include jewelry, traditional costumes, and textiles alongside carpets, woven accessories, ceramic objects, trinkets, carved woodwork, silks, and tableware. Each item is drawn from the brothers' own holdings, assembled over years with an eye toward Tunisia's craft history and cultural memory rather than tourist souvenirs. Visiting Ed-Dar means walking through a centuries-old house whose rooms double as display cases, an approach that puts as much emphasis on the setting as on the objects themselves. It's less a conventional boutique than a private collection opened to the public within one of the medina's oldest surviving structures. For anyone researching Tunisian decorative arts, or simply looking for one antique carpet or a piece of old silverware, the shop can be reached ahead of a visit by phone, fax, or email, listed on its own contact page.
Based in Megrine, Ben Arous, this maker creates sterling silver jewelry inspired by ancestral Tunisian craftsmanship, including necklaces, bracelets, earrings, rings and cuffs. It holds a 4.5 out of 5 rating from 45 reviews on Trustpilot.
Elyssa Concept Store recreates rooms of a Tunisian home to showcase handmade goods. Founder Cyrine Cherif sources clothing, leather goods, furniture, and tableware directly from artisans across Tunisia.
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Elyssa Concept Store treats Tunisian craft retail as installation rather than shelving. Founder Cyrine Cherif, an interior architect and decorator, built the idea nearly a decade ago after visiting the medina of Tangier, where she found a single space mixing Moroccan, Jordanian, and Lebanese objects under one roof. She adapted the concept for Tunis, reconstructing entire rooms of a house inside the store: a bathroom, a living room, a gourmet corner, a kitchen, even a child's bedroom, each dressed with handmade Tunisian pieces so visitors can picture the objects in their own homes before buying. The range spans clothing, leather goods, furniture, decorative objects, and wood or copper tableware. Cherif sources by traveling to different regions of Tunisia to meet artisans directly and scout local raw materials, favoring linen and wood worked by hand. Some pieces are designed in-house; others come from a roster of Tunisian makers she selects herself. The result draws on Tunisia's layered design history, Turkish, Andalusian, and Carthaginian influences, visible in mosaics, ceramics, and woodwork reworked into contemporary forms. It's a concept-store model built specifically around craft traceability: every object is tied to a maker or region rather than an anonymous supply chain, which is the point Cherif keeps returning to when she talks about why the store exists.
Fondouk El Attarine occupies a restored fondouk in Tunis’s medina, combining a Tunisian restaurant with artisan boutiques. The shops sell locally made craft—including handworked leather, painted ceramics, fragrances and textiles—so retail and hospitality are both part of the destination rather than one masking the other.
Best for Tunisian ceramics, leather goods, fragrances, and silk scarves
L'Art Rue is a Tunis-based space for creation, experimentation and research across artistic practices and cultures, running the Dream City Festival and artist residencies. Recent programming has included a residency with Philipp Eden and performances by Chokri Ben Chikha.
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Opened February 23, 2019 in Tunis, L'Artisanerie is a boutique-workshop pairing contemporary design with Tunisian artisanal know-how, launched through a SHANTI-association project, with Oxfam support, to strengthen small artisan networks.
Best for Contemporary Tunisian craft and design
L'Artisanerie opened its doors on February 23, 2019, on Rue du Niger in Tunis, as a boutique-workshop built around a community of Tunisian artisans, designers and social entrepreneurs. The project grew out of work by the SHANTI association and its partners, with support from Oxfam, aimed at strengthening small networks of craftspeople and improving their position in the value chain that runs from workshop to retail.
The space works on two tracks: a showroom selling finished pieces that blend contemporary design with traditional Tunisian techniques, and a workshop offering co-creation and customization for bespoke objects, letting customers work directly with the makers rather than simply buying off a shelf. That structure reflects the shop's mission — it exists as much to give artisans a viable platform and fair footing as to sell craft objects to visitors.
For anyone interested in Tunisian design beyond the tourist-market souvenir stalls, L'Artisanerie is a considered starting point: a single address gathering makers who might otherwise be scattered across ateliers around the city, with the added chance to see or shape a piece being made rather than just buy the finished result.
Established in 2007, La Boîte is a Tunis laboratory for research and experimentation for artists and architects, based at 25 Rue 8603 in Zone Industrielle La Charguia 1. It also runs the Gabès Cinéma Fen and Oasis Days festivals and extends its programming to Djerba and Gabès.
Massimo Dutti Tunisia focuses on Sophisticated Spanish fashion with tailored clothing, premium fabrics, and refined style. At Les Berges du Lac, Tunis, the range centers on premium-fabric tailoring and refined casualwear from the Spanish label.
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Monoprix Gourmet is a premium grocery format for imported cheeses, charcuterie, pastries and speciality pantry goods. The Tunis branch provides genuine food retail, though individual stock changes with import availability.
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Mooja is a Tunis design and ceramics store-studio associated with designer Hend Krichen, offering contemporary objects that draw on Tunisian material and craft references.
Best for Contemporary Tunisian ceramics and design objects
Roumouz makes ceramic pieces under designer Wissem Hammami Nabli, whose workshop is listed at the Maison de l'Artisanat in Denden. The work combines hand production with printed decoration, using varied shapes and colours. Published guides also describe outlets in the Tunis medina, so confirm the destination directly before visiting.
Sara Jomaa is a Tunisia-based designer and creator of silver jewelry, with collections including Filigrane, Tamtouma, Infini, Contemporain and Organique. She also shares her work on Instagram as sarajomaa.bijoux.
Wiki is a Tunisian electronics retailer covering appliances, televisions, computing and smart-home equipment. Its broad catalogue suits comparison shopping, though buyers should confirm warranty and branch stock for individual products.
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Anissa Aida is the label Anissa Meddeb launched in 2016. Her designs draw on Tunisian and Japanese culture, including kimono and caftan forms. The brand describes production in Tunisia and collaborations with artisansS1. Its own stockist page lists an appointment address at 22 rue du 1er Juin in Mutuelleville, Tunis. It also names Supersouk in Soukra as a stockistS2.
Masmoudi began in Sfax in 1972 and now lists Tunis among its boutique locations. Its Tunis presence is part of a wider network that also includes La Marsa and ArianaS3. The range includes Fekia and almond pastries, with pistachio selections and gift coffrets among the other choicesS4.
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