Maison Lejaby, the emblematic French lingerie maker, is placed in court administration

Maison Lejaby is a French lingerie house founded in 1930, known over the decades for its made-in-France craftsmanship and for the lymphoused and layette lines that made it an emblem of the country's underwear industry. By the 2020s it had been through a string of ownership changes and a repositioning toward a more upmarket, higher-priced image.

The company was placed in redressement judiciaire by the tribunal de commerce de Lyon in early January 2024, with 55 employees on the line. The pressure came from operating debt accumulated during the Covid period combined with the cost of the upmarket repositioning, which did not generate enough sales to offset the spending.

In May 2024 the court approved a takeover by a Franco-Indonesian consortium that kept roughly half of the jobs. The brand thus survived under new ownership, but the historic made-in-France structure was scaled down dramatically.