Today Nicolas Lemaire wants to diversify

Here, 80 of the manufactured parts are abroad and even in Asia. For the large houses of couture, ready-to-wear, furniture or costumes show. It is in this former garment factory that for example created fabrics worn by certain characters or other creatures in such films as "The fifth element", "Batman" or "Star wars"! Unlike many houses in the area of Cambrai, high historic French embroidery, SARL tissues is relatively recent. It was in 1985 that Michèle Lemaire, a graduate of fine arts, and married a son of a family of dentelliers leavers, creates, before her separation, embroidery company, in the company of his son, Nicolas. This creative very discrete, already known in professional circles, is quickly, illustrated with a few moments as an international oscar textiles in 1999, followed in 2000 by a trophy of artisanal crafts dynamics, or "Metamorphoses of lace and embroidery" exhibitions at the textile museum Tilburg (Netherlands), or "Woven color" at the the Cateau Matisse Museum.

Only brodeur initially, tissue society, much more known under the name of Michèle Lemaire, has evolved into textile processor. Five-legged sheep specialist, capable of producing extremely low quantities, up to five metres only sometimes, but with exceptional technical expertise and diverse tools, workshop ever invented. Here, a fabric consisting of boiled wool, laser cut and lift hundreds of strips; There, a tangle of other froncés in long ribbons woven on a support him also in tulle. Next, an Assembly of bands associating silk, embroidery and dressmaking, interchangeable with to avoid... "We're creating 100 to 120 new releases every six months for the two first Vision shows." "If someone wants a special product, it is with us", explains Nicolas Lemaire, who still remembers the visit of Milla Jovovich on her stand two years ago.

Michèle Lemaire is always the fashion designer of the company, well known houses of haute couture, which framed compliments lining a wall of the workshop. Yves Saint Laurent, Balanciaga, Fendi, Dolce & Gabbana...: The tissue Lemaire parade every year on the stands in Milan as in Paris. They are also among young designers of fashionable districts in Lille to Roubaix. And the future should be provided, because mode as Esmod Paris schools organize annual visits in the company. Youth use very often its textiles out of standards to their end of course project. But the profession is in difficulty, and Nicolas Lemaire comes to take the Presidency of the SPL (local productive system) of the France means to consolidate the know-how and value stream. First joint exhibition of several workshops gathered around the mark means of France will take place at the salon furniture home and object in September in Villepinte.

The tissue Lemaire play a supplementary card, of innovation, with a leaded market. In 2000, the company offered a machine embroidery large sons, which has very broad perspectives, including that of producing light wires and why not the photovoltaic curtain. Five years ago, it is equipped in laser cutting. Today, Nicolas Lemaire wants to diversify. To furniture, whose collections last three to five years against six months in the ready-to-wear, but also most unlikely directions. Example: an investment is planned for a new micro-perforation laser machine that could open up the market of industrial textiles for curing food. Not matter for this leader very modest and allergic as his mother camera to take a gloomy speech, even if the profession suffers many and the activity of the tissue Lemaire has also decreased for several months. "Today it is difficult, but we create many concepts strongly affecting our customers." "The day where the market will return, it will resume very hard", anticipates the Manager. The turnover of the company should approach 1.5 million this year while the structure exceeded the EUR 2 million years ago.