Maison 15 of 100 · Fashion & Couture
Burberry
The reading
The gabardine trench is one of the few pieces of fashion that is also a piece of engineering. Daniel Lee’s reset is an attempt to make the check feel expensive again after a decade of being licensed onto everything that would sit still.
The house
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Founded
- 1856
- Atelier
- Fashion & Couture
- Ownership
- Independent
- Signature
- Trench / Check
- Register note
- British trench as IP This line is the register’s own characterisation, not a sourced figure; see Méthode.
How the register places it
Its ownership is filed here as independent: one of the thirteen houses in this register filed as independent, with Hermès, The Row, Brunello Cucinelli, Graff, Mikimoto, and seven more. Sorted oldest first, the hundred put it 23rd. Within the register it is the 15th of the twenty-five houses filed under Fashion & Couture. This is one of the nine maisons the register files to the United Kingdom — the same number it files to the United States, and the fourth-largest national group in it.