I.
Philosophy
We believe a man should own fewer things, and better ones. We make no seasonal noise, hold no sales and print no logos. What we make should be the oldest thing in your wardrobe and still the one you reach for.
The House
Made slowly, in Lahore.
Since 2014
Stezz began in a single room in Gulberg, with two tailors, one cutting table and a belief that Pakistan could make clothes as fine as any in the world. It still can. It always could.
II.
Craft
A Stezz jacket is built around a floating canvas of horsehair and wool, sewn by hand with some three thousand stitches. The lapel is rolled, not pressed. The collar is set by eye. It takes sixty-two hours, and it should.
III.
Cloth
We buy from six mills. We have walked the floor of each. Some have been weaving for two hundred years; one of them is a family in Multan whose looms are older than the country.
Biella, Italy
Cashmere & worsted
Overcoats, suits and the finest of our trousers.
Huddersfield, England
Wool suiting
Year-round worsteds with a dry, durable handle.
Faisalabad, Pakistan
Long-staple cotton
Two-ply poplin and oxford from Punjab-grown fibre.
Multan, Pakistan
Raw silk
Hand-loomed for waistcoats and sherwani.
IV.
Artisans
Fourteen master tailors and karigars work in our atelier, most of them trained by their fathers. Each garment is made from beginning to end by one hand, and carries that tailor’s initials inside.
We pay above the trade, train our own apprentices and keep our team small on purpose.
The cloth decides. We only listen.