Merci Lingerie

Merci Lingerie is a Polish lingerie label designed in Warsaw, where it is registered as MERCI LINGERIE Ltd with an office on Hoża Street and a boutique in the old Mariensztat quarter below the Royal Castle. It sells lace and mesh sets, corsets, garter belts and stockings online in English, Polish, German and Italian, and it says its pieces are made in small batches inside the European Union. Despite the French name, and despite a description of it as "French-inspired" that has circulated in brand listings, including this one, nothing in the company's own account ties it to France. It is a Warsaw business.

A small company on Hoża Street

The public record on the company is short. Its terms and conditions give the legal owner as MERCI LINGERIE Ltd, with a registered address at Hoża 86 in central Warsaw and an entry in the Polish National Court Register (KRS 0000993949). No founder is named on the site, and no founding year is given. The brand presents itself through product and tone rather than biography, which is common among young Polish labels that sell mainly online.

The physical store is the most concrete thing about it. The site lists a boutique at Mariensztat 19A, a cobbled square rebuilt after the war just under the Old Town escarpment, open five afternoons a week. For a label of this size, a single shop in a tourist-heavy part of the capital doubles as showroom, fitting room and photo backdrop.

Merci Lingerie's "no push-up" approach

The design brief is stated plainly on the brand's About page: "No push-up. No unnecessary details. Just clean lines, refined lace," and support meant to work with the wearer's natural shape. That rules out the molded, padded cup that dominates mass-market bras, the push-up bra above all, and pushes the work into construction instead. Support comes from seaming, firm mesh panels and the cut of the cup.

The catalog follows the brief. The bestsellers are mostly sets, a bra with a matching brief, and they carry names such as Lucia Lace, Cameo, Toffee, Bruna and Peony Petal. The colorways named on the site stay close to black, mocha, toffee and deep red. Separate categories cover corsets, belts, stockings, home clothes and multi-piece packs.

Lace developed for the label

The company says it uses "only high-quality lace and mesh, many developed exclusively for Merci Lingerie," and that some pieces take several hours to make. It does not name the mills or the workshops, and "produced in limited quantities within the European Union" is as far as the sourcing statement goes. Both claims are plausible for a Warsaw label. Poland has one of the deepest lingerie manufacturing bases in Europe, and brands such as Ewa Michalak and Gorsenia have built export businesses on local sewing skill. Without named suppliers, though, the claims remain the company's own. The store's own care notes treat the pieces as delicates: lace over sheer mesh, hand washing at 30 degrees, no ironing, no tumble drying.

Price and market

Merci Lingerie is not cheap. Full sets list at roughly $130 to $160, stockings at about $20, and the store offers free worldwide delivery above 150 euros and Klarna installment payments. It also prices in dirhams, a hint that the Gulf is one of the markets it ships to. That places it in the upper-middle band of European lingerie: well above high-street chains, well below Paris couture houses. The old description of it as "accessible" does not match its price list.

The label sits in a crowded Polish field of sheer, unpadded lingerie sold through Instagram and its own web shop. What sets it apart for now is the Warsaw boutique, the insistence on unpadded construction, and a range kept small enough that most of it fits on a single page of the website.

Last updated October 7, 2026