Stouls

Stouls is a European luxury leather clothing label for women, founded in Paris in 2004 by designer Aurélia Stouls. A graduate of Studio Berçot, where her final collection won the Charles Jourdan prize, Stouls spent twelve years in leading shoe houses including Stéphane Kélian, Carel and Thierry Mugler, where her love of leather grew. She began her own brand with a single idea, reinterpreting the indispensable T-shirt in leather. Today the Stouls wardrobe spans leather T-shirts such as Le Stouls 05 and Le Gigi, leggings like Le Jo, trousers such as the barrel-leg Le Bugsy and wide-leg Le Lilou, skirts, dresses, blazers, bombers and coats, plus leather bags and boots. Collections are made in Portugal, in a workshop set up by a high-end French manufacturer. Its signature is a supple, machine-washable stretch lambskin from French and Spanish farms, tanned in France, bonded to stretch cotton and lined in silk, so pieces move like a second skin. Each season brings a new colour palette. The brand's Paris boutique in the 8th arrondissement was designed by India Mahdavi, and Stouls is sold in more than a hundred stores worldwide, including Le Bon Marché and Mytheresa.