They were everywhere, she says, in her family home; the basement was filled with boxes and crates of them, stuffed to the brim, seeming to take over every nook and cranny. Her grandfather made his debut in the fur business in 1951, opening up a small shop on the St-Marc Avenue in Shawinigan, Quebec. His sons took over in the late 80’s, after apprenticing with him for several years. In 2001, the family launched a high-end brand, HauteGriffe, produced entirely in-house following the designs and patterns cut by Serge Lemieux.
Andréane thus became the third generation of the Lemieux family to join the fur business when she launched a recycled fur line under the name EcoGriffe, which now has two stores in Quebec city, in addition to an online marketplace and the workshop in Shawinigan.
