Belstaff

Belstaff was founded in 1924 in Stoke-on-Trent, England by Eli Belovitch and his son-in-law Harry Grosberg as a small workshop producing waxed-cotton motorcycle jackets and outdoor garments for the broader British motorcycle-and-outdoor-adventure community. The brand has been one of the defining British waxed-cotton-outerwear brands of the 20th century, with the iconic Trialmaster jacket (a 1948-pattern waxed-cotton motorcycle jacket) anchoring the broader brand cultural position across decades of British outdoor-adventure culture. The Belstaff vocabulary settled around several specific products: the iconic Trialmaster jacket (the brand's defining 1948-era product, still in production with the original waxed-cotton construction and four-pocket-front detail), the Roadmaster jacket (a 1950s pattern variant), the Tourmaster (a 1980s pattern motorcycle jacket), various waxed-cotton field-jacket and parka variations, and a colour palette anchored to washed-tan, oxblood, military-olive, washed-charcoal, ecru, plus the brand's recurring use of weathered British waxed-cotton aesthetic colour combinations. Belstaff is owned by Ineos Group (the British petrochemical conglomerate controlled by Jim Ratcliffe — the brand was acquired by Ineos in 2017 from the previous ownership group of Tom Tailor). The brand operates flagship retail in London (New Bond Street — the brand's home flagship), Manchester, plus international flagships in New York (Madison Avenue), Los Angeles (Beverly Hills), Tokyo (Aoyama, Ginza), Hong Kong, Shanghai, plus extensive wholesale through MR PORTER, MATCHES, the major US-and-European luxury department stores, and the broader luxury menswear specialty network. The brand has been one of the defining post-1924 British-anchored waxed-cotton-luxury-outerwear brands.