Who Is Nour Hammour? The Parisian House Behind the Leather Jacket

Nour Hammour is a Parisian outerwear house with a narrow brief and a long memory. It makes leather jackets, shearling coats and the knitwear that goes underneath them, and it makes them to be kept rather than cycled. The label has spent more than a decade on a single question, which is what a leather jacket has to be before a woman keeps it for twenty years.

Two founders, one jacket

Erin Conry Webb and Nour Hammour met as students at Istituto Marangoni in Paris. They started by customising leather pieces for friends, and in 2013 turned that into a label with six customisable jacket styles. The brand carries Hammour’s name, though it has been a partnership from the beginning, and it remains female founded and female run.

The first collections were built on the idea that a leather jacket should be personal. Customisation is where the house began, and the instinct survives in how the clothes are cut now: soft shouldered, frequently unlined, designed to take the shape of the person wearing them rather than impose one.

Paris and Istanbul

Collections are designed in Paris, in an atelier in the Marais. Production runs between there and a leather workshop in Istanbul that is led by a woman, which the house describes as one of the few of its kind in a city with a century of leather and shearling expertise. That second workshop is the reason the shearling is as good as it is. Istanbul has worked skins for generations, and the house went to the expertise rather than asking a French atelier to learn it.

The leather is sourced through tanneries in the Leather Working Group, the industry body that audits environmental performance in leather manufacturing. Every skin carries natural variation in grain and tone, so no two pieces in the same colour are identical.

What the house actually makes

The material list is deliberately short. Lambskin leather is the core shell, exceptionally supple and often left unlined so a jacket weighs almost nothing on. Lambskin shearling is a single skin with the wool left on, which becomes the outer face and the lining at once. Toscana, a long-haired shearling, frames collars and cuffs and occasionally whole coats. Suede is the same skin brushed to a nap. Cashmere and wool run through the knitwear.

The silhouettes repeat across seasons because they are meant to. A robe coat that belts rather than buttons. A cropped bomber with ribbed leather trims. A midi skirt in lambskin, seamed vertically, slit at the back. These are wardrobe positions, not trends, and the house returns to them in new shades each season.

Who wears it

The label found its audience through people who wear leather constantly rather than occasionally. Kaia Gerber, the Hadid sisters and Hailey Bieber have all been photographed in it. That matters less than the repeat customer, though it explains how a small Parisian house became a name that fashion editors reach for when they want a jacket that does not look new.

Is it worth the money?

Leather at this grade behaves differently from leather at a lower one. It softens, it creases where you bend, and it takes on a patina instead of cracking. A Nour Hammour jacket looks better in its fifth year than its first, which is the whole argument for buying one. The cost spreads across a decade rather than a season, and the resale market for the house reflects that.

Explore the full Nour Hammour collection at Coveti, and read our guide to caring for leather and shearling so the jacket actually lasts. If you are comparing houses, we have also written on brands like Nour Hammour.

Frequently asked questions

Who founded Nour Hammour?

Erin Conry Webb and Nour Hammour, who met as students at Istituto Marangoni in Paris. They launched the label in 2013 with six customisable jacket styles.

Is Nour Hammour a French brand?

Yes. It is a Parisian house, designed in an atelier in the Marais. Production runs between Paris and a woman-led leather workshop in Istanbul.

What is Nour Hammour best known for?

Leather and shearling outerwear, particularly the leather jacket. The house built its reputation on supple lambskin cut with a soft shoulder, and on shearling sourced through its Istanbul workshop.

Where can I buy Nour Hammour?

Coveti carries the house across coats, jackets, skirts and knitwear, with worldwide express shipping and authenticity verified before dispatch.