A new name in ready-to-wear is packing up in the city center of Rennes. Since the end of April, the boutique of the French down jacket brand Just over the top, better known by the acronym JOTT, has been closed on Rue Nationale, near Parliament Square. A note affixed to the window indicates that the premises are closed “definitely“.
According to our information, the store closed its doors last week. ” SATURDAY [27 avril], there were still boxes, but there is nothing left. They had to remove everything on Monday,” says a neighboring shopkeeper. For one of its counterparts on rue Nationale, this closure is not a surprise. “The employees had been thinking for a while that it was going to close,” she confides. Right now, times are tough for ready-to-wear. » Even for popular brands like JOTT.
Another store in Grand-Quartier
Launched in Marseille in 2010 by cousins Mathieu and Nicolas Gourdikian, Just over the top offers light and colorful down jackets made in China, with knit lines from Portugal. Taken over in 2021 by the L Catterton fund, the SME has around 200 stores around the world. The one in downtown Rennes opened in spring 2017. A second, installed since December 2021 in the Grand-Quartier shopping center in Saint-Grégoire (35), is still open, according to our information.
These two stores belong to the same franchisee, Motherwest, a company based in Saint-Grégoire which closed all of its Superdry stores between 2023 and early 2024. It has two other JOTT stores in Vannes and La Rochelle, as well as Timberland stores in Caen, Le Havre, Angers and Grand-Quartier. When contacted, Motherwest had not responded to our requests at the time of publication of these lines.
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