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Innovative products

Over the years at Petit Bateau, our inspiration has always been coming from kids! For 130 years, we've been creating, innovating and inventing to make clothes that allow them to move freely and that make their parents' lives easier.

Key Figures

1893

Founding
of Petit Bateau

1918

Invention of
panties

2025

100% eco-responsible
materials

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Baby innovation

Your life's greatest creation, it's them. To accompany you in this new daily life with your baby, Petit Bateau has been innovating for 130 years, with ingenious clothes that offer little ones more freedom and softness, and parents more time and tranquility!

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Kid innovation

Childhood goes by too quickly to be bothered with impractical clothes and boring pyjamas. Innovation is Petit Bateau's signature: clothes that adapt to the changing world and to kids in a hurry to discover it!

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Adult innovation

To feel good about yourself is to feel good about your clothes: Petit Bateau thinks about older kids too, by designing adult clothes, more practical, more comfortable, and always as elegant and resistant!

Adult innovation

Panties

In 1918, inspired by the nursery rhyme « Maman les p’tits bateaux qui vont sur l’eau ont-ils des jambes ? », Etienne Valton, the founder's son, cut the legs of his underwear... The cotton panties are born!

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