// OUR HISTORY
Our love story with children’s fashion began in 1965 in Vendée. Originally, our group was called Albert SA and designed, produced and distributed its own brands. 30 years later, we decided to put our expertise in children’s ready-to-wear clothing at the service of others. We left the entry level market and created a premium market with high-end brand licences. The first brand to work with us? Donna Karan New York (DKNY). Today, we are proud to design and distribute children’s collections for 15 brands who set the tempo in high-end and luxury international fashion.
2026
CWF acquires the Catimini brand.
2022
CWF acquires the Sonia Rykiel brand.
2022
HUGO entrusts CWF with the creation of its children's line.
2021
MICHAEL KORS to launch children’s wear line in partnership with CWF group.
2020
CWF acquires the Paul Smith Junior brand.
2020
KENZO gives its trust to CWF for its children’s line KENZO KIDS.
2019
Lanvin entrusts its children’s line.
First collection will be launch at Fall Winter 2020.
2019
CWF purchases the brand Charabia.
2019-18
CWF launches its business units specialised
in shoes and accessories.
2018
Kidsaround.com continues its development in France on
benchmark marketplaces (Galeries Lafayette and La Redoute)
and is exported all over the world with its partner, Farfetch.
2017
Givenchy trusts CWF to imagine the brand’s children’s collection.
2017
CWF launches Zadig&Voltaire’s children’s brand.
2016
CWF designs for the KARL LAGERFELD KIDS brand.
2016
CWF launches its online store kidsaround.com.
2015
CWF invents the Carrément Beau children’s brand.
2014
The first Kids around store opens rue Victor Hugo in Paris.
Many other stores will open in France and Europe.
2014
CWF launches the Billybandit children’s brand.
2012
CWF launches its first own brand: Billieblush.
2011
CWF creates the MARC JACOBS children’s brand.
2009
CWF designs the children’s brand for BOSS.
2007-08
Openings in European department stores continue (Inno and HOF).
2006
CWF develops Chloé’s children’s brand.
2002-03
CWF opens its first corners in department stores:
Galeries Lafayette and El Corte Inglés.
2000
CWF works with Burberry for 14 years, developing its children’s line.
1999
The CWF group is created to represent the strategic
turn towards high-end brands.
1997
CWF invents Timberland’s children’s brand.
1995
CWF abandons its own mass-market brands and launches a new strategy in high-end licences. DKNY is the first brand to be signed.
1965
Birth of Albert SA, a design, production and distribution
company specialising in children’s clothing.