Badam TS is a French embroidered linen company created in 2011 by Badam-Ochir TSEDENDORJ and Nicolas THEVENOT, his partner. This designer, originally from Mongolia, is a talented autodidact, capable of mastering all crafts with virtuosity.
In 1991, he witnessed the fall of the Soviet empire, or how everything changed in a short moment of history, and how everything had to be invented when you were the fifth of nine children. At the age of twenty, Badam TS then created a ready-to-wear company in Mongolia specializing in leather: jackets, windbreakers, and coats were made in this small family business from leathers from local crafts, which he then transported via the legendary Trans-Siberian Railway to the Russian city of Ulaan Ude (Buryat Republic).
For eight years Badam TS developed an artisanal production punctuated by his weekly trips back and forth to Russia, his creations based on this experience of travel, displacement and exchange. Many tasty anecdotes (watered down with vodka...) surface when he begins to tell you about this bygone era: how to pass Russian customs with bales of clothes without declaring them and without being racketeered, how to resist -40°C on the markets of Ulan Ude, how to escape the disastrous volatility of the ruble, how Tata Nelly puts him up in Ulaan Ude and absolutely wants to marry him...
In this, his sewing already rhymes with adventure and brings back to life the time of silk merchants on the great roads of the Orient.
In 2000, he emigrated to France where he worked as a fashion designer for a French women's ready-to-wear brand. He worked in various professions before launching his brand dedicated to embroidered household linen in 2011 with the support of Nicolas THEVENOT.
After having established a first Boutique & Workshop in the 8th district of Paris, rue Jean Mermoz, Badam TS is settling permanently in 2021 at 8 avenue de la Porte Chaumont in the 19th district. A much larger space to match our project, allowing us to have all of our manufacturing tools in the same place.