There is a specific frustration that women with fuller busts know well: finding something beautiful, and discovering it was not made for them.
TéAmore was built in answer to that frustration — not as consolation, but as refusal. Every piece starts with the finest materials we could find. The rest is precision, patience, and the woman who stopped settling.
Meet our Founder, Téa York
Before TéAmore, I was an engineer with a PhD from UC Berkeley. I was also a D+ cup woman who couldn't find a single beautiful bra in my size, no matter which continent I shopped on.
Tired of matronly, beige bras that looked more like a resignation letter than lingerie, I started TéAmore in 2017.
It turns out a lot of women had been waiting for it.
~Téa
Where it begins
We source Leavers lace from Jean Bracq, a family-owned mill in Calais, France — fewer than a dozen still operate the original 19th-century mechanical looms that produce it. The process cannot be rushed or replicated at scale.
The embroidered pieces are made with Albert Guegain embroidery — intricate, precise work that takes as long to produce as it looks like it does.
The silk satin is sourced from Pongees in London — one of the last remaining specialist silk merchants in Europe. The underwires are custom-made to TéAmore's specification in France. The hardware is plated in 24K gold.
Every material was chosen for the same reason — because nothing else would do.
What the industry got wrong
The standard lingerie industry solution for a D through K cup was, for decades, compression. Minimizers. Full coverage. The quiet suggestion that a fuller bust was something to be managed rather than supported beautifully.
TéAmore was engineered on a different premise.
Each bra is built with a custom French underwire and cup construction shaped specifically for a rounder, fuller silhouette. The result is forward projection rather than flattening. A demi neckline that reveals a décolletage rather than concealing one. A shape that reflects the body as it actually is, rather than the body the industry found more convenient to dress.
Handmade by Women
Each TéAmore piece is made by hand in small, woman-owned ateliers in Europe. The seamstresses who make them are skilled in the specific construction techniques that this kind of lingerie requires — techniques that take years to learn and cannot be automated.
They work in clean, light spaces. They earn a living wage. They are not anonymous.
Nothing is overproduced. Each style is made in small runs — enough to meet demand, not enough to fill a landfill. It is simply how things are made when you care what happens to them.
