Since its founding, the home of Akris has been St.Gallen. The Swiss city of 75'000 has a reputation for being one of the leading textile capitals of the world and is renowned for its unique embroidery. Around 1910, more than fifty percent of the world's embroidery production came from the picturesque town in northern Switzerland. And there has hardly been a fashion house that St.Gallen's fabrics have not allured. Within the city's textile excellence cluster, Akris is rooted and pushing the innovation of the heritage craft with St. Gallen's specialty textile houses such as Bischoff Textil, Forster Rohner, and Jakob Schlaepfer.
