The art of the
extraordinary
Since 1989, the Art of creating extraordinary bags. A Jamin Puech bag is before all a burst of imagination, an intuition, a story of memories and emotions. It is also a voyage where cultures intertwine, where master craftsmen around the world work and assemble the most noble and surprising materials.
Over 25 years of
Creation
and Craftmanship
In 1989, Isabelle Puech and Benoit Jamin were studying fashion design in Paris while creating costumes for theatres and the Opera. This led them to design their first eclectic and unclassifiable bags including elements of far away cultures, perhaps a legacy of Isabelle Puech's childhood spent sailing the world with her parents from Africa to Polynesian islands.
That year they presented their creations to the International Fashion and Photography Festival (Hyères, Cote d'Azur), the most prestigious competi- tion for young creators which revealed the likes of Viktor & Rolf or Felipe Oliveira Baptista. They won the first prize and Bergdorf Goodman bought all the collection.
They would subsquently design bags for Chanel, Balmain, and Chloé before launching Jamin Puech in 1992 and soon after opening a first boutique-atelier in Paris.
Today Jamin Puech still walks the less travelled roads of creation producing twice a year over sixty new colourful, suprising and impeccably made new designs.
KEY DATES
1991
First prize of the Festival of creators of Hyères
1993
Design of the bags for Chanel ready-to-wear collection, then Chloe and Balmain
1995
Start of the collaboration with embroiders in India
1996
Opening of the first store and atelier in Paris rue d’Hauteville
1998
Opening of the New York store
2001
Opening of the first store in Tokyo, Omotesando
2002
Opening of the second store in Paris, rue Madame, Saint Germain des Prés
2003
Opening of the third store in Paris, rue Vielle du Temple, Le Marais
2004
Participation in the exhibition "Le cas du sac" at the Musée des arts Décoratifs
2007
Opening of Jamin Puech stand at Printemps Haussmann, Paris
2008
Osaka: second Japanese store
2009
Jamin Puech part of the book BAG - Laurence King publishing
2011
20th anniversary
2012
Retrospective of 20 years of the brand in Tokyo
2013
Ranked among the top 10 fashion designers of the 2000s by Gala magazine
2015
Opening of the new Jamin Puech showroom in Paris, rue Malher, le Marais