What Lancaster is known for
Parisian leather goods house founded in 1990 in the Marais by Thomas Tchen, from a family of three generations of leather artisans; known for the ACE baguette bag (1998) and for keeping roughly a third of production in its Paris-region workshop.
Lancaster was founded in 1990 in Paris's Marais district by Thomas Tchen, whose family had worked in leather craft for three generations. The house built its identity on accessible, French-made leather goods, and its 1998 ACE baguette bag remains a recurring style - about 70% of the collection carries over year to year. Roughly a third of Lancaster's pieces are still produced in a workshop in the Paris region, with the rest of manufacturing extended to Asia as the brand grew a wider, international customer base.
How ORBIS reads this city
Best for — French handbags of dependable polish, made since 1990
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