Where it
all
began.
People do not take trips, trips take people. It started with a pile of old shirts at a flea market in Cinq-Mars-la-Pile, a small village in Touraine, France.
Chez Kilometre Paris, we do not manufacture new fabrics. We search for old materials — XIXth-century shirts, linens that have already lived a first life — and we give them a new destiny.
Each piece carries a story — not a label, not a slogan. A place, a year, a journey. That's the only luxury we care about.
Alexandra Senes, a journalist and lifelong traveler, found herself standing before a collection of XIXth-century work shirts, simple, worn, untouched for decades. They had once belonged to a film set decorator.
His wife, who was selling them, simply wished to get rid of them, while Alexandra harbored the desire to craft a narrative of travel. Each shirt was a 'Piece Unique.' Alexandra bought them not to resell, but to embroider on.
With a passion for travel, heritage, and craftsmanship, Alexandra brought the shirts to artisans around the world — in Morocco, India, Mexico — and asked them to embroider. Each stitch was made by hand, in a place far from Paris, with a patience that no machine could replace. From this idea, Kilometre Paris was born.
Alexandra Senes is not a fashion designer in the conventional sense. She calls herself a pilot, someone who navigates between cultures, crafts, and stories. The brand she built, Kilometre Paris, reflects that restlessness, and that respect: for the people who make, for the materials that endure, and for the places that leave a mark on us.
One piece, one story.
