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Perrin Paris, the Paris leather goods house founded in 1893, released its FW26 collection online this September, marking the first collection from creative director Emmanuelle Perrin. The line is headlined by a new bag called Le Pilote, priced at £1,199, in black and cherry leather. It arrives as part of a broader collection, ranging from L’Asymetrique
compact clutches at £596 to the Le Disque Strass Glove clutch at £862.
Le Pilote takes the bucket bag, a shape Perrin Paris has produced in various forms for years, and rebuilds it around one structural idea: an ergonomic top handle shaped to fit naturally in hand. Perrin has said the design traces back to childhood drives from Paris to Normandy, when she sat on her father’s lap with her hands on the wheel. That memory shows up in the name and in the bag’s central gesture.
Previous Perrin Paris styles leaned on corset lacing across the front panel or cutouts shaped like glove fingers, a nod to the house’s roots as a glove maker. Le Pilote drops both and lets the handle carry the reference alone. Two sizes went up for pre-order this season: the full-size bag at £1,199 and a smaller version at £1,049. Le Mini Pilote, built from smooth calfskin with a ponyhair exterior, comes in four colourways: Cherry/Pony, Black, Eden, and Tobacco/Pony.
The rest of the FW26 line runs on ochre, tobacco, and a deep cherry cola through nearly every style. L’Eiffel Classic, priced at £1,087, is a calfskin leather glove clutch channelling the Eiffel Tower’s bold lines in five colourways, from ochre to white. The original Glove Clutch, inspired by the timeless driving glove, comes in seven shades and costs £900.
The sophisticated basket-weave purse, Le Petit Panier, can be worn either as a crossbody or as a handbag. At £1,200, the basket purse is made of Eden metallic calfskin leather and is available in five colourways. Le Panier also features a basket-weave design with a calfskin leather body and wood base. From auburn to creme to cherry, the bag is available in seven colour options priced at £1,350. The Cabbie belt bag at £449 reinvents Perrin Paris’ cabriolet glove in calfskin leather. The pricing keeps the house in accessible luxury territory, well below the register occupied by Hermès and Chanel.
Perrin Paris has stayed in family hands since Victor Rigaudy founded it in Saint-Junien, a town on the banks of the Vienne that has cut leather gloves since the late Middle Ages and still supplies workshops for Dior, Louis Vuitton, and Hermès. Henri Perrin, the founder’s great-great-grandson, took over the company in 1987. His brother Michel left a software career in the United States to rejoin the business two decades later, bringing his wife, Sally Perrin, in as creative director.
Sally is credited with the shift from gloves into handbags, including the Glove Clutch design that established the brand’s reputation. She handed creative direction to her daughter Chloe around 2016, and Chloe has been succeeded by her sister Emmanuelle.
The house expanded carefully once it crossed into handbags. A Beverly Hills boutique opened in 2009, a Madison Avenue shop inside Carlyle Hotel followed not long after, and a Paris flagship near Place Vendôme opened alongside a boutique at Hong Kong’s IFC Mall in 2015. A first Japan shop opened at Tokyo’s Ginza Six.
Emmanuelle Perrin now runs creative direction at a house whose name she shares, and she has spoken about how that overlap affects her decision-making. She told FashionUnited that the hardest part of the job is knowing which instincts to trust, adding that Perrin has endured because it never chased trends. Every choice she makes, she said, sits alongside the decisions that were her parents’ and their collaborators’, not hers. “I want to respect the DNA of the brand with any new models I propose and produce,” she said, tracing that instinct back to the house’s first craft. “We began as glovemakers, and that heritage remains important to me. A glove is intimate: it takes the exact shape of the hand and moves with it.”
That idea carried through as the house moved from gloves into bags, and it shows up in how she talks about Le Pilote itself. Dropping the corset lacing and the glove-finger cutouts that defined earlier Perrin bags let her put her own signature on the house’s codes without erasing them, and the handle now does the work those older details used to do.
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