What Dunhill is known for
British luxury house since 1893 — part of Richemont. Alfred Dunhill's motoring coat to contemporary menswear, leather goods and accessories.
Alfred Dunhill inherited his father's saddlery in 1893 and pivoted it toward the horseless carriage with a phrase that still defines the house: "everything for the car but the motor." Motorities — driving coats, goggles, dashboard clocks, the audacious Bobby Finder — made Dunhill the outfitter of Edwardian speed; the pipes and lighters that followed (the Unique lighter could be struck one-handed at the wheel) made it a gentleman's-luxury empire from Jermyn Street to Shanghai by the 1920s.
The modern house, part of Richemont, distilled all of it into contemporary menswear: leather goods machined with automotive precision, the Lock bag's engine-turned clasp, tailoring and knitwear that dress British quietness for a global customer. Bourdon House in Mayfair — the Duke of Westminster's former residence — serves as the London home, complete with barber and cellar.
The heritage is genuinely eccentric and the register genuinely calm: a century of gadgets resolved into understatement, with the long A-D logo as the signature.
In the press
- Vogue Business 2023
How ORBIS reads this city
Best for — British heritage luxury menswear
Made in England and Italy
More in London
- Alexander McQueen — London
- Augustinus Bader — London
- Budd Shirtmakers — London
- Burberry — London
- Cad & The Dandy — London
- Charles Tyrwhitt — London
- Drake's — London
- Emma Willis — London
Where next
- Cadot — Paris
- Octobre Éditions — Paris
- John Simons — London
Hand-curated for ORBIS · no paid placement