Zazou is a collaboration between designer Christopher Carroll and founder Claudia Koch. Originally an idea to clothe a mythical “Zazou,” a hipster of early 40’s Paris, Zazou has evolved into a company whose goal is to find a way of combining art and artisan to make beautiful textiles at affordable prices.

Painter and designer Carroll uses a wide variety of techniques to create his original designs, including painting, drawing, cut paper, and collage.

Claudia Koch travels the world searching for perfect fabrics to translate the Zazou vision into textiles. She walks through the bazaars of Asia and spends hard time in the cafés of Europe in search of the ultimate scarf.

Zazou designs are sold in Museums Worldwide. We are the only company that regularly creates Homage studies of major artists, composers and art movements.

From traditional wood block and screen printing techniques, Zazou has progressed into multi-fiber jacquards and complex brocades. We are always consulting textile masters throughout the world for evolving weaving techniques and the latest yarns.

As our interest in sustainability has grown we have developed Bamboo scarves and fingerless gloves using that wonderful prolific plant.  We continue to look for fabrics and techniques which are easier on the planet. 

Zazou prides itself on its work on detail, drape and hand. We like to say Wear Zazou, Change your life”. Who knows? It might even be true.