What Agathe & Louise does

Agathe & Louise is a privately-held French women's ready-to-wear fashion brand headquartered in Busset, Allier (France), structured as a SAS (Société par Actions Simplifiée). The company designs and distributes women's clothing in an inclusive size range (36 to 54), addressing what it identifies as limited availability of stylish, well-designed apparel in extended sizes. Its core product line is a bi-annual seasonal collection cycle (Spring-Summer / Printemps-Été and Fall-Winter / Automne-Hiver), documented through catalogs and lookbooks, with four recent releases (PE25, AH25, PE26, AH 2026-27) indicating active operations.

The company operates a hybrid go-to-market combining B2B wholesale distribution to French fashion retailers and boutiques through a dedicated professional access portal (Extranet) and direct-to-consumer e-commerce via its own website (agatheetlouise.fr). Marketing is conducted primarily through organic social media channels (Facebook, Instagram) with branded hashtags (#agatheetlouise, #latelierdanna). The brand has developed a sub-brand, L'Atelier d'Anna, alongside a Bureau de Style service. The underlying technology is a non-proprietary WordPress CMS hosting-the public-facing storefront, catalogs, and lookbooks, with a separate third-party-hosted Extranet handling the B2B professional access. The company is small (~5 employees), self-funded, with no disclosed revenue, no external investors, no M&A, no parent company, and no verified leadership team in the data. Geographic scope is limited to France.

Name

Agathe & Louise

Legal name

Agathe & Louise

Website

https://agatheetlouise.fr

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Agathe & Louise is a French, privately-held women's ready-to-wear fashion brand based in Busset, France, offering inclusive sizing (36-54) through seasonal collections sold via B2B wholesale to retailers and direct-to-consumer e-commerce to women in France.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Women's Ready-to-Wear Apparel

NAICS

Clothing and Clothing Accessories Merchant Wholesalers (424350), Clothing and Clothing Accessories Retailers (45811)

SIC

Wholesale-Apparel, Piece Goods & Notions (5130), Retail-Women's Clothing Stores (5621)

akta.pro primary industry

Fashion Apparel Wholesale (Men’s, Women’s, Kids) (CRAOADAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Women’s Apparel Retail (CRAAABAB)

Keywords

• Women's ready-to-wear
• Inclusive size fashion
• Seasonal fashion collections
• B2B fashion wholesale
• French clothing brand

Headquarters

HQ city

Busset

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. B2B Fashion Wholesale: Wholesale distribution of ready-to-wear women's fashion to retailers and boutiques through professional access portal and seasonal collection presentations
2. Direct-to-Consumer E-commerce: Direct sales of women's clothing through their ecommerce website to end consumers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Agathe & Louise designs, produces, and sells women's ready-to-wear clothing in extended size ranges (sizes 36 to 54) through semiannual seasonal collections (Spring-Summer / Printemps-Été and Fall-Winter / Automne-Hiver) under its main brand and its sub-brand L'Atelier d'Anna. The brand sells direct-to-consumer via its own e-commerce site and supplies fashion retailers and boutiques wholesale through a dedicated professional Extranet portal presenting lookbooks and digital catalogs.

Product overview

Agathe & Louise is a French women's ready-to-wear fashion brand offering clothing sizes 36 to 54. The company operates as a single product line with seasonal collections (Spring-Summer and Fall-Winter) released annually. The brand has a sub-brand called 'L'Atelier d'Anna' associated with styling and professional collections, and offers a Bureau de Style (style bureau) service. Products include seasonal fashion catalogs and lookbooks available through B2B professional access.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• L'Atelier d'Anna: A fashion atelier/collection under the Agathe & Louise brand, featured alongside the main brand on the website with its own logo and dedicated collection pages.

Products and services

• Agathe & Louise Women's Ready-to-Wear Core women's ready-to-wear clothing line offered in extended sizes 36 to 54, sold direct-to-consumer through the company website and wholesale to fashion retailers and boutiques.
• Agathe & Louise Printemps-Été 2025 (PE25) Collection Spring-Summer 2025 seasonal ready-to-wear collection for women, sizes 36–54, presented via digital catalog and made available to B2B buyers and consumers.
• L'Atelier d'Anna Automne-Hiver 2025 (AH 2025) Collection Fall-Winter 2025 seasonal ready-to-wear collection under the L'Atelier d'Anna sub-brand, sized 36–54, distributed via digital lookbook to wholesale buyers and consumers.
• L'Atelier d'Anna Printemps-Été 2026 (PE26) Collection Spring-Summer 2026 seasonal ready-to-wear collection under the L'Atelier d'Anna sub-brand, sizes 36–54, made available to professional B2B buyers via the brand's Extranet catalog section.
• Agathe & Louise Automne-Hiver 2026-27 (AH 2026-27) Collection Fall-Winter 2026-27 seasonal ready-to-wear collection for women, sizes 36–54, made available through the professional B2B access portal for fashion retailers and boutiques.
• Bureau de Style In-house style bureau service associated with the Agathe & Louise brand, supporting styling, collection development, and the brand's atelier sub-brand L'Atelier d'Anna.
• Professional B2B Access (Accès Professionnel / Extranet) Password-protected professional access portal that gives wholesale buyers, fashion retailers, and boutiques access to the brand's seasonal lookbooks, digital catalogs, and ordering Extranet for both the Agathe & Louise and L'Atelier d'Anna collections.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Sézane: French women's fashion brand with strong DTC e-commerce and selective wholesale presence. Comparable go-to-market template (DTC + boutiques) but broader premium positioning and much larger scale than Agathe & Louise.
• Bonprix: European multi-channel fashion retailer with dedicated plus-size lines. Comparable in combining extended-size womenswear with both DTC and wholesale-style distribution into independent and partner retailers.
• Promod: French women's fashion brand with multi-channel DTC and wholesale distribution. Comparable in seasonal women's ready-to-wear cadence and French retail footprint, though broader sizing and mass-market positioning.
• Maje: Established French women's ready-to-wear brand operating DTC and wholesale channels globally. Comparable in hybrid B2B-plus-DTC French womenswear model, though serving a different (premium) price and size segment.

Direct peers

• Ulla Popken: Germany-based plus-size womenswear retailer covering extended size ranges via DTC and wholesale channels. Directly comparable to Agathe & Louise in size-inclusive focus and target customer, but operating at much larger scale.
• Yours Clothing: UK-based plus-size women's fashion retailer with broad extended-size range and multi-channel DTC plus international wholesale. Comparable in plus-size positioning, breadth of assortment, and B2B distribution ambitions.
• CASTALUNA: French plus-size women's fashion brand operating as a specialist line of La Redoute. Overlaps directly with Agathe & Louise on the French market, plus-size focus, and multi-channel (catalog, e-commerce) retail model.
• Violeta by Mango: Plus-size women's fashion line launched by Mango. Closely comparable to Agathe & Louise's 36–54 size-inclusivity thesis while leveraging Mango's wholesale-and-DTC infrastructure, making it a benchmark for scale-up potential.
• Eloquii: US-based digitally-native plus-size women's fashion brand. Comparable in its exclusive focus on size-inclusive womenswear and direct-to-consumer orientation, mirroring Agathe & Louise's primary value proposition.
• Elvi: UK-based independent plus-size women's fashion label with seasonal collections. Comparable in being a dedicated plus-size design-led brand running PE/AH-style collection cycles for the same target customer.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/Agathe-Louise-156750871801982
• Instagraminstagram.com/agatheetlouise
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/agathe-&-louise

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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