The origins of the Maison

Longchamp’s story began in 1948 when Jean Cassegrain, the father of today's President, began to craft luxury leather smoking pipes. After several successful years offering the finest smoke products in France, the company began to create small leather goods and eventually expanded the collection to include women’s handbags, luggage, ready-to-wear, shoes and men’s leather collections. What began as a small smoke shop, known for its expertise and excellent craftsmanship, soon expanded to a major luxury brand.

In 1948, Jean Cassegrain unveiled his unique vision of French elegance and reinvented the codes of modern luxury with the Longchamp brand. Once a leather-covered pipe manufacturer, Longchamp broadened its expertise to the manufacture of travel accessories, handbags, ready-to-wear and shoes, and can now be found all over the world.                            

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The emblematic horse logo is a symbol of the company’s inception. There is a famous horse race track in Paris called Longchamp or "long field." Just next door was an old mill that Monsieur Cassegrain - which means "miller" in French - used to pass in front of every day. The company soon found its name: it being only a short trot from the miller and onto the race track, the way was fore trod!

More than 3000 people work for Longchamp and  45% of them are employed in France.

Our family-run business is strongly influenced by our artisan culture, our love of beautiful materials and our respect for the work of each individual. This background and these values form the basis of Longchamp's sustainable development policy. As a manufacturer, our responsibility starts with the French workshops, where special attention has always been paid to the processing of materials and the production procedures.