OUR COMMITMENTS

For more than twenty years, we have moved forward with a simple but demanding idea: to create beautiful pieces, in a respectful way, on a human scale and without excess.

At Les Touristes, all our products are made from 100% natural materials: cotton. 70% of our models are made from certified organic cotton, recognized for its cultivation that uses less water and no harmful pesticides.

The rest is made from conventional cotton, but always natural, without any synthetic fibers.

We pay attention to each stage of manufacturing. Our fabrics are printed in India, in two family workshops with which we have been collaborating for nearly two decades. There, everything is family work, where the art of textiles and traditions are passed down from generation to generation.

They are OEKO-TEX® Standard 100 certified, a label that guarantees the absence of substances harmful to health and skin.

One of our partners is also GOTS (Global Organic Textile Standard) certified, an international reference standard for organic textiles, which encompasses both environmental and social criteria for employees. The second workshop is in the process of being certified.

We also work with small workshops in Portugal, composed of teams of around fifteen people. They are the ones who make, among other things, our terry cloth linen. Here too, we favor small series, with close monitoring and great care given to every detail.

We only produce two collections per year, without reprinting. Once a model is sold out, it doesn't come back. This deliberate choice places us in a slow fashion approach: create less, but better.

And above all, nothing goes to waste. Pieces with slight defects are offered during clearance sales in our workshop in Lorraine, giving them a second life.

We also support French associations like ARCAT, which resells our unsold items for the benefit of the fight against AIDS, or Les Bienfaiteurs, which redistribute our clothing to support charitable causes.

Finally, we take care to use 100% of our fabric stocks. Every meter is used to the end, out of concern for consistency and respect for resources.