The flagshipMade to MeasureChennai
Clothes should not fit a size. They should fit you.
The house behind the studio
- 1994the year Derby began, in a tailoring room in Egmore
- 50+Derby stores across South India
- 8,000square feet on Mount Road
Made to Measure · Engineered Fit
The garment is engineered around you.
Discover Engineered Fit
True Bespoke
The garment begins with you.
Enter True BespokeIThe fit
Not every 42 is the same 42.
A size is a number. Fit is the shoulder, the posture and the way a man moves.
The shoulder changes the whole garment.
Few men have two level shoulders. When one sits lower, a standard jacket sags on that side. We cut that shoulder lower, and the sleeve opening with it.
Showing each figure in turn
IIThe men we dress
You are the brand.
What each man asked for, and what we made. Founders, doctors, models and advocates, in their own words.
Shirts, trousers and a linen shirt, right at the first trial.
A wardrobe refresh for the season: formal shirts, tailored trousers and linen.
On stage nine hours a day, now in a suit that never feels heavy.
Hard to fit off the rack. His first pair of selvedge jeans, made for an international conclave.
The Japanese denim jacket he had hunted for, made to his specification.
His reception suit, in the teal he had always wanted.
Two suits for a corporate lawyer, in brown and navy. Light, and comfortable sitting all day.
The denim Nehru jacket he could never find, made his way in under a week.
Two suits for Milan, with every detail his own call.
After years of suits that never sat right, a suit and four trousers cut to his proportions.
A denim bandhgala he could not find anywhere in India, delivered before the date.
A denim shirt cut to the way he stands.
Ten years with Derby, and now clothes recut for the body he has today.
From ready-made jeans to his first tailored pair.
A stage wardrobe with his own brand stitched in.
Back to the office after five years of working from home, with a wardrobe cut for him.
A party shirt from a saved picture, gemstone work and all, still light to wear.
His first denim, shirt and trousers, made in the two days before he flew.
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IIIWhat we make
From everyday to occasion.
IVFabrics
The cloth, up close.
SuitingWool for work, travel and ceremony.
ShirtingFine cotton, cut to your collar and cuff.
LinenItalian linen for warm days.
DenimSelvedge denim, engineered to your body.
VHow it works
How a garment is made for you.
- 01
The conversation
What you need, where you will wear it, and what has never fitted you.
- 02
The pattern
Your measurements and how you stand, drawn into our own pattern.
- 03
The trial
Cut in the cloth you chose. You try the real garment before it is finished.
- 04Engineered FitFit Record
- Shoulder
- Right sits lower
- Posture
- Slight forward stance
- Sleeve
- A fingertip of cuff
- Trial
- Waist taken in
- Next
- Starts from here
The memory
Every correction kept on file. Your next order starts there.
The most personal work the house makes.
A pattern drawn for your body alone, made largely by hand over one to three fittings.
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True Bespoke
Vijay Kapoor.
The founder
Every True Bespoke commission begins with a consultation with him at Mount Road. One of the house's masters then makes it, largely by hand.
60–70Hours
A master's work for one True Bespoke suit
Why it takes 60 to 70 hours.
- The patternDrawn on paper from your measurements, never from a stock pattern.
- The cutCut by hand and tacked, ready to fit on you.
- The fittingsOne to three. After each one, the pattern is corrected.
- The makingSewn mostly by hand, by one master.
VIThe studio
Seen.Heard.Understood.Served.
VIITwo studios in Chennai
Come in. Sit down. Tell us about you.
Both are open every day.
The flagshipThe first studio
Shanti Colony
A1-32, 4th Avenue, AI Block, Shanti Colony, Anna Nagar, Chennai 600040VIIIYour first appointment
The first fitting is a conversation.
Choose a slot in the studio calendar, or send us your request on WhatsApp.
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Pick a slot and it is confirmed straight away. The confirmation email has a link to change it.