A heritage clothing label founded in Paris in 1994 by Pierre Fournier, built on reviving American workwear and military garments that had mostly disappeared from menswear. The brand keeps a reference archive of more than 1,000 original vintage pieces from the 1900s through the 1960s that it studies and deconstructs before developing its own patterns. It expanded into Japan through a partnership with Kinji Teramoto starting in 2008, opening a Tokyo store in 2011 and pairing that research-driven design with Japanese manufacturing standards. Its first jeans, the 618 Original, took over 15 months to develop and launched in 2007.