About Us

About Us

Since 1994

Clothing was never just clothing.

Thirty years ago, one man decided that how you dress is how you are first understood. That conviction became Derby.

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Vijay and Rakhi Kapoor, founders of DerbyFounders — Vijay & Rakhi Kapoor

The Beginning

It started with one man's conviction.

In 1994, Vijay Kapoor started Derby with no investors and no safety net. Only the belief that a man's clothes speak before he does.

He built it the way his generation built everything: with stubbornness, taste, and a refusal to cut corners on the things that matter. Beside him through every season stood Rakhi Kapoor, the steadying force behind the name. Together they turned a single idea into a label men came to trust.

The Derby man — lifestyleThe Derby man — lifestyle

The Community

For the man who wants to look like himself, only sharper.

Derby began in denim, and denim is still in our bones. Over thirty years it grew into a full wardrobe: shirts, linen, trousers, jackets, tees, each held to the same standard, for the same man.

Derby grew into something larger than a label: a community of thousands of men across Tamil Nadu and beyond who came back year after year and made Derby part of how they show up in the world. When you wear Derby, you are one of us.

Derby Tailor Studio storefront at sunset, Mount Road, ChennaiDerby Tailor Studio, Mount Road

The Next Generation

A new chapter, the same standard.

Their son, Ricky Kapoor, carries that standard into a new era. On Mount Road, Chennai, he opened Derby Tailor Studio: eight thousand square feet of engineered fit, Japanese denim and Italian linen, where bespoke tailoring meets the craft Derby was built on.

It is a place India has never quite seen. And it never forgets where it came from.

Derby — the retail experienceDerby — made for the modern man

The Road Ahead

Built to last. Built to grow.

Today that legacy is being scaled with intent. Under the leadership of Director JK Samuel, Derby is sharpening for its next chapter: more stores, a growing online home, and the same promise that started it all.

The ambition is bigger. The standard has not moved an inch.

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The Philosophy

Make Your Luck.

Make Your Luck is the founding story of a self-made man.

Luck is earned, one honest day at a time, and built by your own hands.
The horseshoe we carry is the reminder:
you build it yourself, or it does not get built.

Thirty years on

This is Derby.

Since 1994.

1994
The year it began
50+
Stores across Tamil Nadu
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